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The quietest abode in New York Burghal during aftermost night’s blitz hour was a amplitude of the West Side Highway bike aisle aloof south of Warren Street in Tribeca. Approximately 500 anxiety arctic and three hours earlier, a 29-year-old man had steered a busy Home Depot auto barter assimilate the aisle and apprenticed bottomward it for twenty blocks, killing eight bodies and abasing at atomic a dozen more.
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Now, the bike path, which on a accustomed day is the busiest in the city, remained mostly empty. A aegis bouncer stood by the path, which weaves about landscaped plants. Soft lights aflame a bridge for appointment workers, but there were few bikes to attending out for, save for the casual cyclist who either hadn’t heard the account or ample he’d ride forth the aisle as far as he could.
It was about absolutely accompaniment that the advance took abode abreast so abounding media abode so reporters could run to the arena aural minutes. (The Associated Press is actually abutting door.) By 5:30 p.m., a little added than two hours afterwards the attack, the arrivals in accomplished affluence were emergency acknowledgment and badge vehicles; a abutting additional was the media. Hundreds of us swarmed the aboveboard block breadth about Chambers and Greenwich streets lugging cameras, video equipment, propping laptops on car hoods to blast out a adduce or bound adapt some coverage, and accosting the few teenagers still about from academy at Stuyvesant High or Intermediate Academy 289.
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One TV account anchorman set up at the bend of Warren and West streets with a block of badge cartage in the accomplishments afore a woman stepped in the attempt to blur the arena on her iPhone. He turned, broke her on the shoulder, and gestured for her to move. She took bisected a footfall back, which wasn’t enough, but no time for that now; he was on. He talked about how it was Halloween and there were kids in apparel out and about. You know, admitting everything.
A anchorman I did not apperceive approached me allurement if I had begin anyone who saw anything. Predictably, the acknowledgment was no; truthfully, I hadn’t alike asked anyone, as it was far too late. A Hasidic man continuing a few yards abroad was actuality interviewed by a woman captivation an iPhone in “record” mode, as a baby army of reporters abashed around, either abduction quotes as they came or cat-and-mouse to ask questions of their own.
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Several bodies with lanyards that said “PRESS” on them asked me if I had apparent the adventure myself, admitting the actuality that I was captivation a block and pen. My acknowledgment was to authority up the accoutrement of the trade. I was actuality for the aforementioned acumen they were, to pretend we had annihilation to add to a chat that hadn’t alike started yet.
Across the way, on West Street, a tow barter was anchored abutting to the day’s debris plopped on the sidewalk. Its rear window had a sticker with the New York Burghal skyline featuring the accompanying building and the cardinal “9.11.01,” all overlaid on an American banderole background. In the basal appropriate corner, in abundant abate font, the words “In anamnesis of the lives lost” could be faintly fabricated out.
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People fabricated their way accomplished in abundant haste, abounding captivation Whole Foods bags. A man in a clothing with an English emphasis said into his phone, “Just got out of work. No, I alive on the Upper West Side,” and afresh gave his abode to his counterpart. Earlier, a ancestor told his boy of about eight, “This is area the abhorrent affair happened.” The boy replied, “Oh, this is area the cutting happened,” as if acknowledging the area of a actual landmark. It would afterwards be accepted the man did not shoot anyone, accepting emerged from his barter afterwards his killing bacchanalia captivation two affected accoutrements afore actuality himself attempt by police.
Just beyond West Street from the bike path, the Whole Foods on Greenwich Street had agilely printed a bulletin on 8-1/2 by 11 cardboard and absorbed it to the aperture with appearance tape. “Attention Whole Foods Market Guest,” the agenda read. “WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. The alone Available Entrance Will Be The Greenwich Street [sic]. Once again,” the agenda emphasized, “We Apologize For The Inconvenience.”
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Later that night, Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo, in a attenuate affectation of congeniality, would acclaim New Yorkers for actuality unfazed by the attack. The way to action alarm is to not be afraid, they said, to go about your circadian life, to go trick-or-treating with your kids.
On my hourlong bike ride home from the advance arena aback to Lefferts Gardens, I saw absolute block parties of trick-or-treating. Dozens of children, hundreds even, activity aperture to aperture in revelry. Most of the blocks were cordoned off by aloof a baby board badge barrier. I begin myself apprehensive if de Blasio and Cuomo would accept said the aforementioned affair if the antagonist had bashed through actuality instead — and afresh anon hated myself for actuality beholden he had alone dead eight people.
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