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More from my midnight visit to Ground Zero/Freedom Plaza. Ribbons flutter at St. Paul’s Church, which has become the defacto memorial site for visitors and loved ones alike. Nearby twin lights commemorate the lost towers. And, sadly, concrete barriers representing the irony of a new security state.
Not only were there hundreds of barriers like these, but I saw countless cameras, fences, bollards, cops, ‘security’ staff, etc., - all for freedom. It’s a scene of utter madness.
destroying the town to save it and all … :(
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We don’t talk about it. Not in the weeks or months after, and not ten years after. I don’t watch the documentaries, I don’t read the books, I wasn’t even going to do this. When you live in new York, it becomes a part of you. It’s not just the place where you live, it’s an integral part of who you are and who you hope to become. I wasn’t born in new York city, but i feel homesick for it in a way I never felt for anywhere else when I leave. I have a love and hate relationship with this city like I would with a person. It represents all my hopes and triumphs, my heartbreak and challenges, my past, my future, my personality, and I know everyone else here loves it in the same way that i do. When they took those buildings and those people it was like they took a piece of each of us, and it’s personal. I think that’s why we don’t talk about it.
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Posted on August 27, 2011 via Brother Brain with 977 notes
Source: brotherbrain.com
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New York City is shutting down its subway, bus system as of noon Saturday; commuter rail lines serving Connecticut, Long Island and Westchester as well; all construction projects in NYC suspended ahead of Hurricane Irene
Shit. Is. Getting. Real.
Philly and NJ also plan to shut down their systems. And Bloomberg just ordered residents in low-lying areas to evacuate. No word on DC yet, which is being pretty piss-poor about planning for this.
dear gods, this is going to be crazy. i don’t know that the NYC subways are going to survive this hurricane. due to flooding and stuff, they may be offline for months! :/
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Posted on August 26, 2011 via BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. with 228 notes
Source: inothernews
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