Nueva York, Septiembre 11 del año 2001 | Fotos

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Nueva York, Septiembre 2001

A little background. I made two trips downtown on Thursday to try and see what was happening. The first one, in the early afternoon, was pretty direct, up Broadway. Saw a lot of ash and wrecked cars that were towed out. At Reade St, only emergency personnel were allowed in.

At dusk, I rollerbladed under the Wburg Bridge and all the way down East Broadway through Chinatown (where nothing appeared different at all, just no traffic). Water Street was open all the way through the lower financial district, where I unstrapped, and walked up to Battery Park (army guys everywhere) and the end of Broadway (cops everywhere). They were all bored and relaxed, and no one seemed concerned that I was walking around (a few people actually went to work down there last night). I walked up Broadway to Wall St, where a cop detoured me down to the stockexchange (which I thought was strange) which was all but unguarded. I then walked back up to Broadway and saw it all. Or rather, what wasn't there, because the absence of the Towers made me gasp before seeing the five-storey-high pile of debris that was left, and the hundreds of men digging into it.

I spent about an hour around there, talking to a few other random folks and some cops, who didn't mind chatting for a bit but then seemed to remember they were supposed to send me away.

Kevin Leech

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