After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.
I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life.
I left for New York three days after graduation.
I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
Whenever I left New York, the Twin Towers welcomed me back in. It was a symbol of my city - the most unique city in the world, so when I moved to Virginia and later to Maryland, it meant even more.
New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.