Ground
Zero, New York, July 2002
At the end of July 2002, while attending a conference
in New York, I visited the World Trade Center site in the evening.
It is incredibly solemn; everyone can feel the quiet and few seem
willing to break it by speaking above low tones. The only reminder
that this was New York was the occasional business person hurrying
through on their way home.
The entire site is fenced off, and most of the fences
are covered with a green fabric that prevents viewing. However,
over time people have torn holes in the fabric at regular intervals
that allow viewing from Church Street. People were lined up at these
as the evening sun poured through the buildings in the background.
Liberty Street is the "official" viewing
area. It is a fenced-off area of the street between the World Trade
Center site itself, and a tall building wrapped entirely in heavy
black fabric--I assumed to contain debris. The sidewalk below the
building is covered with a plywood tunnel for protection. In here,
mementos, flowers, and notes are taped up everywhere, and people
stand and silently observe. A fine white dust still coats every
surface of the sidewalk and building. Very sobering.
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