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Month Two: October

Lower Manhattan, with Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in the distance
 

Street level
 

No knives
 

No dirigibles
 

I spend the month as a tourist, visiting some of the clichéd places in the city I hadn’t seen before. The Statue of Liberty is still closed, so I spend a lot of time in Midtown.

Safety mesh

The last time I was on top of the Empire State Building, I must have been 10 years old.

Chrysler Building
 
No kidding
 
Skylines $19.99

USS Intrepid
 

Truck inspection
 

I know I speak
 
Liberty in line

Bridges and tunnels reopen, with increased security.

The NYSE bull
 

HSBC flag in Times Square
 

Overcome fireman
 

Keep back
 

Gas mask and hardhat

Gas masks for sale in Chinatown, American flags advertising foreign banks, flowers before every fire house, memorial statues parked in the street. It’s a different city now.


Engine 14
 
Engine 7
 


Protesting the protest
 

Rebuild
 
Never forget

Gradually, photographs of the missing come down, and new posters go up alongside all the flags.


Subway service as of 9/17
 

Don’t litter
 

Best sandwiches in NYC
 
Too many
 
Lake Michigan
 

Disgraceland
 

The flags are also up in Chicago, though at least one seems unintentionally out of place.


Sears Tower
 

John Hancock Tower
 

Sharpest building in Chicago
Contrails in the distance

Heading back to New York, I can’t shake the thought that it still seems strange to fly.





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