DEP Press Advisory on Deer Hunting Cancellation, October 2, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document in tiizaoein, is.j., leoerai mspecioii began “more intensive examinations A NATION CHALLENGED: The Aftermath in New York of passengers, of freight and of mail,” after Sept. 11, said James F. SECURITY V Michie, a customs spokesman. “We are looking for anything at all that could pose a terrorist threat to this country, including components City Tries to Become Safer of weapons of mass destruction,” Mr. Michie said. Security concerns have kept cars In Ways Large and Small and trucks from being allowed on the three Staten Island ferries equipped to carry vehicles, said Tom Cocola, a By AL BAKER Everything from the way tram spokesman for the city’s Depart­ tickets are sold to the way food en­ ment of Transportation. At the Wall Street firm of Bear, ters restaurants to the way fans can The attack has also led to security Steams, the idea of a visitor’s pass enjoy early October baseball games changes for Amtrak. Those buying and directions to the elevator are a is being affected. And that is not to tickets at Amtrak stations, sending a thing of the past: everyone must now mention all the personal adjust­ package by train or checking lug­ be escorted to the offices he or she is ments millions of New Yorkers face, gage must have a valid photo ID, visiting. from the way husbands and wives said Karen Dunn, an Amtrak spokes­ The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the say goodbye every morning to the woman. Starting Monday, she said, East Side, which used to operate its decisions about whether to buy gas tickets will no longer be sold aboard X-ray machines only during things masks or antibiotics. trains. like visits by world dignitaries, now “It is not paranoid at all to think in At large corporations, physical se­ uses them to examine everything terms of preparing for the next at­ curity and safety plans are being from bed linens to single-malt Scotch tack on New York City, or the state. revisited, security experts said. At for the hotel’s Bull and Bear bar. because we know the terrorists are Bear, Stearns, Raymond W. Kelly, a At 50 Catholic elementary schools after us,” said State Senator Roy M. former New York City Police com­ in Manhattan, security identification Goodman, who is co-chairman of a missioner who is the head of global cards are being given to principals local task force on terrorist threat security, said a range of safety who never had them before, and the assessment and preparedness. measures had been implemented. policy may eventually be extended to In high-rise offices and on the Not only are escorts being enforced both teachers and students. streets below, at residences and on all visitors, but detailed floor Meanwhile, at some city libraries, houses of worship and in subway plans that include fire exits and other where safety is suddenly a concern -cars coursing underground, the ques- information are being distributed. that goes beyond whether books tion on the minds of many New~Ydrk- And because of the Sept. 1 l at- — might be stolen, what comes in is ers is not whether another terrorist tacks, Mr. Kelly said, the firm may being checked as thoroughly as what attack will come, but when. Whether consider such safeguards as barring goes out. the new security measures being in­ more than one executive from taking There are, of course, more con­ stituted will last forever is another > any individual airline flight. spicuous signs of the city’s height­ question. Since Sept. 11, the New York Weill ened security: Armed National Some of the most onerous options Cornell Center has doubled the num­ Guard troops, for example, will be are apt to disappear as anxiety ber of guards at its entrances, where stationed at the airports. And the wanes, some security experts said. blue police barricades have suddenly Police Department is stopping Those defenses deemed most neces­ gone up. Guards are now checking trucks at nearly every crossing into sary, like airport security, may be­ car trunks and passenger compart­ come more permanent. ments, asking questions and requir­ “1 think a lot of it depends on world ing visitors to show some form of events,” said Michael Stapleton. photo ID, said Ben Scaglione, the In hotels and schools president of a New York company center’s director of security. “There that bears his name and provides always was an officer in the front and libraries, bomb-sniffing dogs. “The lines are going to be longer, the inconven­ circle,” he said. “But now we are literally not letting you on the prop­ conspicuous signs of iences are going to be increased and ; there is going to be a lot more scru­ erty until we can verify that you have business in the hospital and that the heightened security. tiny and, unfortunately, people are vehicle is safe to enter the property.” going to be less and less tolerant.” At Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, At the Roman Catholic Archdio­ heightened security must compete cese of New York, the decision to with what has been a perennial sense Manhattan, with traffic jamming give principals of Manhattan ele­ of pennant fever in New York. Brief­ back into the suburbs. mentary schools identification cards cases, backpacks, bottles, cans, cool­ But since the Sept. 11 assaults on may be replicated in all of the arch­ ers, hard containers and umbrellas the World Trade Center, there have diocese’s elementary schools. Other are now banned at games. Players been myriad other safety steps, staff and faculty members may also and the team manager, Joe Torre, some subtle and others symbolic, be given credentials in those schools, are not exempt. taken by securitj' experts, law en­ an official said. But even in the current environ­ forcement officials and those in pub­ “This is not something we would ment there are, for the moment, lim­ lic and private life. They are all pari have even thought about had we noi its. While security is a concern at St. of an ongoing effort to gain, if not the had a Sept. 11th,” said Nora Murphy, Patrick’s Cathedral, no one should unachievable state of maximum pro­ a spokeswoman for the diocesan sys­ expect the church to lock any doors, tection, a slightly greater sense of tem of elementary and secondary said Joseph G. Zwilling, the archdio­ safety in a crowded, complicated, schools in Manhattan, the Bronx, cese’s spokesman. lareelv unbowed city. Staten Island and seven Hudson Val­ “We are a house of worship and a ley counties. house of prayer,” he said. “If we The United States Customs Serv­ don’t allow the people to come in, ice has gone to a code red, its top there is no reason for us to exist.” level, from a code green. It means that at Kennedy and Newark Inter­ national Airports, and at the seaport

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