NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
their religions and beliefs on oth- her 32nd-floor apartment.
er people there probably would “It seems like death up there/
be a lot less violence in this Long said as she reclaimed her
world,” said James Dawson, 27, checkbook, a guitar and an am-
a photographer from Park plifier. “It doesn’t feel like my
Slope, Brooklyn. home anymore.”
Proud to live downtown Long line at ticket booth
While the trucks rumbled by. Uptown at Times S<^are,
the denizens of Hudson Tower there were more touriste- in the
at 350 Albany St. in Battery Park streets than in recent days. The
City returned to dust-filled apart- line at the TKTS ticket booth
ments. They had power and wa- was full of New Yorkers looking
ter, but no phone service. to support Broadway.
“I feel like we’re cut off from “Sales are even better than av-
the rest of the world,” said Tina erage for this time of year,” sajd
Evans, 34. TKTS manager Mike Kane. “I
But Evans, a Pole married to a was expecting business to start
Briton, said she wasn’t leaving picking up again, but not this
— as she proudly displayed the quickly. I’m proud of the people
American flag she and her hus- for coming out.”
band got after becoming U.S. dt- James Wesley, of Washington
izens recently. Heights, his mother from Texas
“We look out the window and in tow, said he was all for sup-
the river is as beautiful as ever porting Broadway. But the ticket
—you can’t take that away,” she line was too long and dedded to
said. “New York is the most won- help the dty by spending some
derful dty I’ve ever lived in.” money at a museum instead.
At Liberty Court, 200 Rector “We weren’t expecting the
Place, the devastation was too lines to be this long,” he said. “I
much for Connie Long, 36. A guess everyone’s heeding the
technical director for ABC, she mayor’s advice. We’ll skip this
could not bear to stay long in and go over to the Met.”
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