New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.