As I read this article, I am reminded of E.B. White’s, “Here Is New York” written in the 1940s and how it rings true today. White saw the strength and resilience of its people, how they took this great city for granted, yet how they strove to work hard and how the city provided for so many, what it had to offer both economically and the commitment the city had to arts.
More important, White saw the City’s vulnerability as he wrote. “"The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now; in the sounds of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest editions."
"All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself, and because, of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm."
I doubt if he envisioned lone wolves and ISIS’s design on slowly dismembering society in New York City, but he did see the susceptibility and I think he knew we could withstand it and, “hold a steady, irresistible charm.”
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Anti-Muslim talk and actions by Trump can only discourage law abiding Muslims from cooperating with authorities, while it helps to promote radical Islam.
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I scare very easily.
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I worked at the World Trade Center for 9.5 years after the first time it was bombed. My company relocated to Jersey City in the spring of 2001. After 9/11 -- when my mom's friends called her and hesitatingly asked how I was, since many of them remembered that I worked at the WTC -- she said something to me like "After that first bombing, I worried every day that you wouldn't come home."
I don't think it's that people aren't scared, or afraid. It's that if you are the one who has to go there every day because that's where you need to be, you just can't think about being afraid. You push it into a corner of your mind and lock it up and don't let it out. Or you decide that you just can't do it, and find a new job or move to a new place or whatever you need to do to make things right for yourself -- and that's OK too.
It's not about not scaring easily. It's about being scared and just getting on with things anyway.
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Thank you for this article. It's assuring and inspiring. New York is the best!
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It's good that people are not shying away from using the transit system. When air travel first resumed after 9/11, a number of fearful travelers decided to drive instead of flying. Guess what -- road deaths went up. Transit is and remains the safest way to get around, except maybe walking, depending on how you feel about pedestrian safety in NYC or any other city.
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Of course religious terrorism is a real threat, but based on the number of mass murders each year it seems the people we should most fear are white, Christian, American males with guns.
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People WERE running scared when they heard the explosion and it is silly so say that the rest of the city unaffected by the act of terrorism went about its business because the whole city is brave and does not scare easily.
I suppose you could say that about any city that bore the brunt of terrorist acts: London and Paris.
DeBlasio and the police chief were asking people to say something if they see something. Unless they were asking people to report any Muslim dude with a back pack and a winter coat to the authorities, they bravado was meaningless and empty bluster.
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The New York Police force has done an exceptional job. There doesn't seem to be much doubt about that.
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In my many decades of observation, I have witnessed the following strike fear into the hearts of New Yorkers: falling on the subway tracks, bedbugs in the building, ticks, hot food served lukewarm, coming face-to-face with rats (nonhuman kind) in Central Park or in the subway system, loud neighbors, musicians who play saxophones on street corners at two in the morning, losing electricity, gridlock on the Long Island Distressway when the weekend getaway clock is ticking, and getting lost on those long stretches of highway anywhere west of the Hudson with the exception of I-95 (Google app has alleviated this one).
Terrorist attacks, thuggery, and other mayhem, piece of cake.
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Of course New Yorker's don't scare easily, De Blasio is mayor and once you have seen the blunders and stumblers of his administration and the danger he brings, all else is a minor inconvenience.
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Every time there is a natural catastrophe or a terrorist attack, political leaders and the media tout the resilience of the local population. I know this is to raise the spirit of the people affected but has there ever been any case of non-relilience. Humans have endured much worse life conditions over their history, including very destructing World Wars, local wars (Syria) and uncountable number of famines. As far as I can see, people bounced back, either by moving away from the destruction or rebuilding afterwards. I think humans are basically resilient; it's in our genes from those millennia of dealing with nature and each other.
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Sometimes I think New Yorkers are rather proud of being the No. 1 target of the raving crazies of the world; we have plenty of raving crazies living here already, along with the seasoned security professionals, to hold our own against them. The variety and passion of New York citizens keep the city alert and resistant to threats. The only "terrorist organization" that really worries me here in Manhattan is the NRA--their encroachment on our freedom from guns can make me feel raving crazy myself.
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A lot of New Yorkers are Muslim. Or they have Muslim friends, neighbors, and colleagues. We see our neighbors as neighbors.
We also have neighbors who are certifiably nuts. We learn to avoid them, if necessary, to assuage them, and most of all, not to unnecessarily provoke them.
When you have people in power who regularly say things or take actions that stoke these fires of paranoid anger, you are going to get burned.
I’m not apologizing for what this nut job did today (or for the nut jobs who narrowly missed me in Chelsea and my wife in Tribeca), but telling a paranoiac that you’re out to get him is just as nuts.
We should treat our neighbors, both here in the city and throughout the world, with respect and dignity.
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I can't be the only NYT reader these past couple of days who has noticed that the comments seem to have been hijacked by those determined to discuss the NRA and our nation's gun laws.
You are not helping to put DJT out of office by changing the topic in this manner. The average, reasonable person can see that immigration policy, Islamist ideology, and the perception of the US around the world are the genuinely relevant topics. Changing the focus of discussion so that facts can be ignored is the very basis of criticisms against the NYT and other outlets for propagating "fake news." You have created a niche for sites like Breitbart and even the New York Post because people open a newspaper to be informed about the world, not to be indoctrinated into a world view. Please stop. You aren't helping.
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With all of the disgusting hate speech against "New York Liberals" from the White House and Fox News, is anyone really surprised that someone would try to attack them ?
I'm not.
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I always thought the real threat, which strikes fear in NYCers was their building going co-op and gentrification. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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To be honest I never think about a terrorist attack. I realize it could happen at any time, any place however the odds of me being there are very slim. The attack on our way of life I think about every day is lead by trump and his GOP pals. They want to take away our health care, defund many school programs that help our children, raise our taxes, attack our fellow New Yorkers who are not white Christians and just keep the whole place on edge with their crazy words and thoughtless acts.
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“The New York Police Department has worked hard to keep the city safe.”
This is like the politicians who today used their corny and tedious, “Our thoughts are with New York City today, especially with the first responders.”
What a difference it would have made if they had added some perspective, to that appreciation.
What if they had also mentioned that, “Manfredini, Preston and Gallagher all have military experience, police sources said. Officer Manfredini served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years and did bomb detection as part of a K-9 unit. Officer Gallagher is also a former Marine and Officer Preston is a 13-year U.S. Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.”
(Source: pix11.com)
Honor our first responders. But they deserve better — also explain why we appreciate them.
New Yorkers don’t scare easily? I thought so very recently. Until that is, you and your fellow countrymen started firing, like a medieval witch-hunt , on the whim of any finger pointers under the absurdly broad “sexual misconduct” banner, without any sort of due process for these men at all. You are not tough at all. You are weak and scared living in a leadership vacumn.
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So relieved this lunatic caused only minor injuries. My big fear is that by dissing our intelligences services, the FBI, insulting our allies and decimating our State Department, the current White House occupant is setting us up for a massive terrorist attack that actually is staged and executed by overseas terrorist organization. Imagine what Trump would gleefully do after an atrocity like that!
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Don't worry NY, I got this.
My tax dollars are protecting Trump Tower. Just hang there. You will be safe.
My gift to you.
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I’ve been to NYC four times in 17 years, and every time I go there I see how much Newyorkers are really willing and helpful with people of all races and countries. I think that other Americans should recognize this when they think that people from NYC are just spoilt. You demonstrated to the world your strength, the strength that you have in rebuilding all the monuments tore down by some crazy strangers. Dear NYC, you’re a symbol of freedom. Prove it once again
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BIG WIN for gun control today.
LIVES SAVED! Despite the FECKLESS White House "security" apparatus.
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Given the location and time of the attack, it seems likely that most of the people affected were New Jersey commuters. So you should say that New Jerseyites don’t scare so easily.
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Trump sets such a bad example for New York that residents likely chose to be extra calm yesterday to spite him. Provoking an unpanicked reaction is the one good thing he’s done for the city.
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"New Yorkers Don't Scare Easily", but "Londoners left reeling", do you even hear yourselves? The superiority complex of our imperial masters knows no bonds... and no ridicule! The stiff-upper-lips on one side of the pond and the loud hysterics on the other... sure NYT, sure.
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Anyone else wondering why the terrorists always attack the "liberals" who are allegedly their biggest fans ?
If they set off a bomb in Palm Beach or Mississippi, perhaps I'd buy that they were protesting US policies.
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If someone had killed a couple of people New Yorkers with an AR-15, New Yorkers would say how scary it is, how frightened they are for the children and when will the carnage stop. Protest would immediately be underway. You're lying to yourselves and each other claiming you don't get frightened at the violence and killing. The fake courage and bravery is ideology, you're willing to sacrifice lives of fellow citizens of N.Y.C. for your agenda
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"New Yorkers Don’t Scare Easily." What a stupid headline: New Yorkers "scare" like anybody else when the terrorist attack is a success. Go ahead, turn it into a game. I'm sure there are lots of willing players.
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It is no more anti-Muslim to study the phenomenon of Islamic supremacism, in order to curtail its infiltration into American society, than it was anti-Russian to do the same with Communism. Even a religion is subject to scrutiny if it tries to subjugate our values to its own.
Regarding the positive development of the downward trend of crime in the city, since when does anyone ignore new problems because they've tackled an older one?
In truth, terrorism is only one facet of submission to Sharia law that is insisted on by Islamic supremacists. The New York Times had better wake up its readership about the impending problem, before our Bill of Rights disintegrates in front of our eyes.
The New York Times is keeping its readers asleep.
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Love New York!!! Hysteria is not your thang!
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I have lived in NYC for 15 years. In that time I have struggled, fought and ultimately created a life that is truly mine. Every day I feel lucky and proud to be a New Yorker. The people of this city are extraordinary and in difficult times we are truly at our best. Although I am always troubled by tragedies that have and will hit our city, I take comfort in knowing we are New Yorkers and we always rise.
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Ugh. Please. More self-congratulatory provincial New York naval gazing. The people of Beirut, Paris, Aleppo, London, Marawi, Manchester, Bagdad, Borno State, and Cairo also don't scare easily.
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I was on the periphery of yesterday's terror attempt -- on a crowded subway headed toward Times Sq, noticing people saying "but I'm going to Port Authority!" on their phones, sensing that something bad was going on. The train was held in the tunnel long enough to make everyone late, an an uneasy mood carried through the day.
I look at this event as a response -- deranged, but nonetheless a response -- to the toxic policies and prejudices that the President screeches across his Twitter feed, and that other reactionary idiots echo through the media. And the outcome of all the screeching and re-screeching is actual policy: what America stands for, and what we do. America has always had its problems, but over the past year the problems have been gilded Trump-style, elevated and exhibited with arrogance and utter disregard for the general state of humanity. This leads to no good end.
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The question is:
How do we prevent (or minimize the risk of) a future, more adept, pipe bomb attack during rush hour—perhaps even in the same subway corridor?
Yes, New Yorkers are stoic and "don't scare easily" BUT . . .
Keep calm, fix our immigration system and then carry on.
Good thing he was too incompetent to make a real bomb.
Trump isn't kidding when he complains about unskilled immigrants: You can almost guess his visa type by looking at his bomb.
It is good that there were few casualties yesterday. I would not be so quick to dismiss this particular attack as a minor incident - your own expert, Ruckmini Callimachi, tweeted yesterday that all the jihadi social media and websites were rejoicing over this attack - how much money poured into ISIS coffers yesterday because of this? The stark reality is that we dodged a bullet, and were lucky there were no more injuries or worse. However, no one knows with,any certainty that Akayed Ullah was indeed a “lone wolf” any more than we can be certain about Sayfullo Saipov - who murdered 12 people in NY this past Halloween. Islamic jihad is a global movement that is probably responsible for the murder of thousands this year alone. The one thing that is certain is that this is not the last - there will be more to come.
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Funny already to see comments coming in going, "New Yorkers do too scare easily!". Some from scared New Yorkers, some from non-New Yorkers who really don't know what they're talking about.
So for the scared New Yorkers I'd like to point out, fear is all in your head. You won't get personally affected by terrorism, in all likelihood, as we don't live in Syria (in Syria it'd affect us pretty much no matter what). I have been personally hit by it on 9/11, and you just have to keep overlaying the bad memories and grief with good memories and love. It's not easy but it's possible.
To the non-New Yorkers, I'd just like to say, you have no idea what it's like to live here. I have no idea what it's like to live in your town, wherever that is, and I don't claim to. Don't look foolish by making baseless assumptions.
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It might be true that New Yorkers are unflappable, but I guarantee that the media (including the New York Times) will flog this to death in an attempt to raise hysteria. Prepare to hear this story over-analysed over the next two weeks, despite less than a dozen people being injured.
As a native New Yorker, I would love to say that I agree with this editorial and that we New Yorkers are a unique breed. However, I see something different. Much as gun violence in America has caused a de-sensitizing of the issue, when we hear of another mass shooting our common reaction is - here we go again and the incidents become a collection of similar events that all blur into one unclear tragedy... I feel this is now becoming the unfortunate norm for lone wolf terrorist attacks. Our entire culture has begun to accept that violence is a part of daily life while we fail to address the issues that contribute to the alienation of men who take their anger out on innocent people who are just living their lives.
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Big city people don't scare easily but our friends in less densely populated areas do and are easily manipulated.
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After 9/11 members of my family who live in Wisconsin wanted me to move back to Wisconsin. My response "I'd rather die in NYC from a terrorist attack than die of boredom in Wisconsin."
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I think everyone gets scared.
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If you don't know how to grow. harvest or process food, your food, New York your food, quit giving this tough guy image, signed some where in the midwest.
Yet the Mayor's wife, per her Twiter feed, suggests some New Yorkers may want counseling to overcome their fears/upset.
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So much energy misplaced into destruction and hate.
Don't throw those stones. Let's stack them and build a home for a refugee. I will help you lift the heaviest ones into place, my friend.
Instead of building a bomb, let's build a garden. I will exhaust myself helping you pound that gun barrel into the blades of a tiller. I will hold the basket while you harvest.
Suffocate your hatred. Inhale the odors of a meal we cook together. Instead of shouting across a table, pass me a dish that is the pride of your culture. I will share my own recipe and together we will be nourished.
Instead of insisting that your way is the only way, let's compare the ways in which we are similarly grateful.
We would be better friends than enemies. Imagine the pot lucks we could have? Imagine the gifts we could provide each other? Imagine the love we could cultivate? Imagine the problems we could solve if only we were not so distracted by our resentments?
Rather than dwelling in ignorance of our mutual humanity, let's stand shoulder to shoulder and build schools, where our children can sit side by side, enriching their minds and filling their hearts with hope.
Let's not perpetuate the trauma, this pattern of suffering behind all acts of violence. Instead, let's find ways to heal. Our efforts towards truth and reconciliation may spare our children the pain that resides in their parents hearts.
The expenditure of energy is the same. I would rather be your friend. I would rather love you.
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Yes, El Jamon, but ancient hatreds and tribalism die very slowly in our human species.
What a lovely, and loving, message, El Jamon. Have you thought of running for public office? You probably can’t become our President unless you were “lucky” enough to be born here! But perhaps a Senator or a Representative.... Think about it!
I am able to run for any office. Not sure that is how I could do the most good in this world, though.
I'd rather use my gifts, abilities and work ethic to create happiness and counter all of this ugliness.
Each agent of beauty has more power than all of the armies of the world, combined.
It’s simple, New Yorkers are smarter, braver, more tolerant, than anybody in the World. That’s a fact. The rest of the World has never faced the horrors of War. Europeans have no idea what New Yorkers go through.
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You do know that Europeans have also suffered through two World Wars and several terrorist attacks as well, right?
You’re not invincible. You’re vulnerable sitting duck. You don’t have to quiver in fear day in and out, but don’t become desensitized. NYC will continue to be a target, and ignorant attitudes will not be helpful. Stay alert, do your parts, train yourself to react just in case an attack happens, or leave the city. The subways aren’t getting better, the target on NYC’s back won’t disappear— don’t praise fearlessness, praise unity and compassion...
PS I was a New Yorker for over 30 years and saw the 9/11 attacks.
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Thanks for the advice.
This is the same President Trump that fully supports the NRAs mad dash to flood the country with millions of ever more powerful, ever more unrestricted weapons. Over the past year, exactly how many innocent people have deranged middle aged white guys murdered or seriously injured? ISIS wins every time Trump insults large swaths of people that don’t look like him and his xenophobic enablers. He has an uncanny way of repeatedly turning any small victory into defeat and any real setback into something worse than it was originally.
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I love New York!
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So true, but you know that most of the 250 K commuters hanging in Port Authority are actually New Jersey residents working in the city, don’t you ?
‘New Yorkers & New Jersians dont get scared easily’
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Sober assessment of the behavior of New Yorkers when faced with adversity. Security is high but proportional to the challenges out there. Too bad we have a superb liar and exaggerator in the White House, who will use any excuse to send himself flowers so his ego remains well fed....while trying to infuse fear, hate and division our way. No way Jose'!
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I've always loved New Yorkers for their chutzpah and toughness. Every time I visit, I feel stronger, walk faster and look farther out to the horizon, because you never stare at city people. If you do, you're likely to get a hot blast of verbal blow back, kinda like Travis Bickle: "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to ME?"
The city is a carnival of skin colors, foreign tongues and food smells. Oh! Those food smells. I was lucky enough to live in the city for a bit. You're barely aware the world has so many ethnicities and nationalities until someone takes you to a new restaurant. And then you're in love.
I also kinda enjoy how crowds pack subways and lunchtime spots and lines to shows. The subways are a spectacle at evening rush hour. You'll see a car gaping with more commuters than it can hold and then one guy runs on to the platform. And he keeps going, leaping past closing doors, onto the car, cramming among his fellow sardines.
The subway routes are the city's veins and the riders its blood. I can't imagine how, after something like this, it would feel to descend into the ill-lit and soiled halls. I'm glad New Yorkers are so tough. I think: If anyone can handle this, it's them. But still, this is really bad. I love that Mayor de Blasio today celebrated the city as a beacon: "We actually show that a society of many faiths and many backgrounds can work.” City people also have a no-garbage attitude toward bigots and politicians who tell them how to live and who to tolerate.
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Penny
Thank you for your words. New York is precious. We find peace there, among the crowds. We’re there sometimes tired, but get re-energized! How ironic. We find love of mankind because we all can find something or someone special and favorite, no matter we’re not even trying. Nothing compares to New York. At least for many of us. Glad I’m one!
MIMA
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On my way to the subway later in the morning — after the attacks — was more worried about the bicyclists who no longer pay attention to traffic lights and cycle the wrong way on one-way streets. I think one of those cyclists could bring me down some day!
Having navigated the crosswalks without mishap from random cyclists, got on the subway, got a seat and relaxed.
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Nice comment.
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This type of response is so confusing and oddly typical. At this point, every single community that goes through some hardship says: "THIS community does not scare that easy." First, are there no examples of ANY communities that just said: "We quit." Also, let's be honest, a lone man with a pipe bomb should never be equated in any way to the Germans bombing London. That is both inane and self-aggrandizing. Just stop it.
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". . . to the Germans bombing London"—
Or to the Allies carpet bombing Dresden and Nürnberg, filled mostly with women, children (boys under fourteen), and the elderly.
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If you have lived through the nightmare and torturous experience of 911 living in NYC, you have already become fully armoured to all of the frightening potentials of living within the bullseye of terrorists. This armour was acquired over many months of experiencing too many types of dangers that potentially could harm us again.
Today so many of us & our families who experienced this can say with conviction of what we learned then and use today is stop fearing and maintain your sanity by pushing ahead and go about your daily lives unencumbered by anything that you cannot see or act upon. Be confident and give voice to that confidence so that others about you feel the same. Those of us who endured NYC much prior to 9/11 during NYC dark periods of grittiness, decay, major drug and rampart violence survived and thrived by being alert in all surroundings, present a strong sense to those about you. Think about this, find courage to be strong, use it to fight fear when it or potentially presents itself anywhere.
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Some perspective.No one died.This isn't like Paris.There is no need for such fuss.Paris is much safer in every other respect but for terrorist attacks.The bigger picture please.If there were mass casualities god knows what kind of articles would have appeared.
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Immediately the Trump administration tried to take advantage of this act but it still to early to talk about gun control after Las Vegas.
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Americans in general don't scare easily anymore, at least when it comes to lone-wolf terrorist attacks and spree killings. We're the type of people who can take mass shootings that kill dozens in stride - they're just a part of life nowadays. What's a puny incompetently-made bomb that doesn't even kill the would-be suicide bomber or cause any serious injuries, compared to what we've been dealing with on a regular basis in the past decade?
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What else are people supposed to do? Stop going to work? Nobody has a choice except to carry on. It doesn't say anything about anything.
And certainly terrorists are not impressed by people 'not being scared'. They want to kill, and every time they succeed, they win. The rest of the people carrying on does not restore any of the victims to life or mend their mutilations.
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Let's face it. After 9/11, it's going to take a lot more to stop us. We've been through the worst. We know we're a target.
Both here at home and abroad.
But we are strong.
We will rebuild.
And we will go on.
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Truth be told...New Yorkers are no different than any other American. It is always a silly statement to claim that people from any city or town are that much different when it comes to bravery or resilience. There are brave people everywhere in all American cities and rural areas.
People in New York, Washington DC and many other cities live directly in the Bulls Eye everyday. Americans in general "don't scare easily" and the notion that people in one city are better than others is downright silly.
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I feel like this would not be the sentiment being encouraged if it had been a gun instead of a bomb used yesterday. This same 'we aren't bothered' narrative would be replaced with the mocking of the religious who offer "thoughts and prayers", the typical NRA conspiracy theories, and dozens of graphs to show every gun crime ever committed.
In other words, weaponized outrage is only utilized when the narrative fits the worldview
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"Weaponized outrage" is used when it fits the facts.
There is no reason for people to own AR-15s that is worth the carnage, heartbreak and broken families it causes. There is no reason to allow serial abusers access to deadly weapons.
In dramatic contrast, New York (and America) is enriched by welcoming the energy and talents of loving families from all around the world.
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We live in New York because we know that old Sinatra song rings true: if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Knowing we are Numero Uno on a terrorist's list of US cities to strike has been common knowledge for decades. Long before 9/11/01 we've had our share of miscreants wanting to make their infamous mark in history by attempting to do damage to our beloved burgh. To no avail. We just keep coming back. It's what we do. And if that is not America's strength personified, you tell me what is?
DD
Manhattan
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New York have roads to navigate,it’s not always easy but the support of the Police and Fire ,Media fellow citizens helps.New Yorkers are on a good team,keep the faith and keep rolling.
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I don’t care if Donald Trump has lived in Trump Tower, on 5th Avenue in New York City. I will never, ever consider New York as Donald Trump’s “hometown” or that Donald Trump is a New Yorker.
New Yorkers are strong willed, but kind hearted and fun. They smile. They are smart in many ways, but they don’t go out of their way to try to prove they are smarter than everyone else. New Yorkers are hard working, but they work alongside the next guy, not trying to lord over them, New Yorkers have friends and close family and celebrate their lives together. They aren’t exclusive to a very few people in private exclusive places. New Yorkers help one another, as exemplified by 1400+ meals served by volunteers at St. Paul’s Church after 9/11. They don’t throw paper towels at people in time of need. New Yorkers appreciate the arts and don’t make fun of theater or museums. They attend because they thrive on learning more about others and other times and cultures, they don’t shun them. New Yorkers are energetic and lively, they don’t sit on their laurels bossing others around, they dig in and know true grit.
New Yorkers take for granted it takes people from many lands to make the world and welcome them in at their harbor, so much so they have a big, tall green statue awaiting those who come to New York. They have
given people from those other lands a chance to live a better life, not scoffed them.
Donald Trump does not come close to New York ideals. A New Yorker? Only by address.
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MIMA - "A New Yorker? Only by address."
The president was born in New York City, unless you don't include the Borough of Queens in the city. Isn't there enough foolish talk going about today, please don't add to it.
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New Yorkers are many people. But they fight as one.
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Dear MIMA:
Bravo. We here in Manhattan have never thought of Trump as a New Yorker. Sure, we make fun of him, call him a hick from Queens, a rich Archie Bunker with an even bigger mouth and ego. But it would be wrong to make fun of him because he's from Queens. When we say that what we mean is that no matter where one came from we hope that if they desire to come to New York, The City, Manhattan, to make it here, they never forget their humble surroundings they came from. We have many native New Yorkers and those who traveled from all corners of the World to make it in New York. When we look at Trump, a man who needs to brag about his Tower in Midtown what we see is an insecure semi-literate self-loathing individual who knows that no matter how much fame and fortune he accumulates he will never have the class of someone who resides here in near poverty scraping away a living and not complaining about his or her lot in life.
Trump is a New Yorker by accident. He was born in Queens to a man who detested the ideals of New York. This City was seen to Fred and his son as nothing but a means to gain wealth at any cost. They were schlock artists, and will remain so as long as the Trump name is plastered on buildings. Their brand has been turned into a curse. No one wishes to have the Trump label attached to anything they own. Trump has become the punchline to a joke, a very bad crude joke to be sure.
DD
Manhattan
Bravo New Yorkers. And, I might add, us tourists kept calm, carried on, and shopped.
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I'm not so sure the sentiment is exactly "kept calm and carried on" so much as "I've got things to do and this is interrupting my day".
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I am a white senior citizen. I will not be frightened. I will not hate. I will not stay home and hide. I will not retaliate hate and fear with hate and fear. I will resist and be good nasty.....speaking up against the horrors in Washington and Congress. We know the risks. We stay here anyway. All of us, in every city in the western world, are at risk. We know that. We do not quake in fear.
In the end, we must live together in peace or die by our own hands. We must heal the planet or perish. Those who put power and money over human lives will someday lose the battle but in the meantime, and I speak here for many others, I will not be afraid. I will not hate. I will not hide.
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My husband works downtown, and was coming out of the path station when the first plane hit on 9/11. Then he went to work, not even concerned since it seemed an accident. After the second plane hit he waited in his office on Broadway, considering where he could go to get home. He watched from his 14th floor window as debris from the collapse flew by in a tornado. It took him all day to get home, and he was covered in dust and a bit in shock. 2 days later he was back at work, even though his commute would be unrecognizable and he had to pass the pile, then the scars, then the very slow rebuilding of the World Trade Center. 16 years later it still not complete. He never complains or worries. He is always amazed at how people who live in "middle" America seem more fearful about terrorism than he is. He was there. It's been part of him ever since. And he is not afraid.
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MJ,
Just wondering how your husband, brave man that he is, could not
even be concerned about the World Trade Tower roaring in flames
and why he would sit in his office after the second tower was hit.
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I remember my mother saying how resilient "we New Yorkers are" during the sanitation workers strike in the mid-70s. just sayin':
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Everybody scares and everybody scares easily, especially as the psychological and personal "it can't happen here or can't happen to me" denial wears off.
How one reacts when it does happen "to me" or "next to me" is a greater test.
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Clearly New York got a taste of what it must be like to live in Mosul today and, like the people in that Iraqi city, New Yorkers responded with firm resolve. Inhabitants of both cities - in their determination not to let ISIS succeed - are an inspiration to all of us.
This article illustrates the resilience of our metropolitan residents but exposes a flaw in keeping us safe: easy access to guns. In New York and New Jersey we have strict gun laws which help prevent gun violence; unfortunately, other states, like nearby Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia, etc. have laws which make it easier for people to obtain guns illegally - some of whom are violent criminals or have terrorist intentions.
We need to have consistent gun laws and restrictions nationwide - not allowing concealed carry everywhere or loosening restrictions based on the "good guy with a gun" premise. Rather, we need to embrace the absence of guns keep all safer. As a New Yorker/New Jerseyan I don't walk around scared, though I am wary of the GOP plan to enable more gun possession at a time and place where it's the last thing we need.
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When the mayor was in front of the cameras mentioning his thanking God for things, could you just sense the progressives who elected him just shuddering in indignation at his mentioning such politically incorrect sentiments?
Yes, Mr. Mayor, I agree that a lot of things happened to keep lots of people from sustaining much physical harm, perhaps orchestrated by the Almighty.
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L'osservatore:
Is this how you see your role in life: every single day extracting some assumption from your mind to write that attacks the good people who live in New York?
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Thanks for the attempt at a pep talk, but we dodged a bullet here. It's easy to feign courage when the guy's bomb essentially fizzled. I don't live scared, but I do occasionally imagine with a shiver of trepidation what misery a more effective attempt can accomplish.
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I’m sorry, but all this editorial made me think about is that vintage New Yorker magazine cover (to which I subscribe, as well as the NYT, which costs an arm and a leg to get delivered out here in the sticks) which shows NYC as the center of the world. Paris and London and Vienna and Barcelona...have all had terrorist attacks as well - multiple - and they go on as well. Bravo to NYers over their reaction to this latest attack but you are not alone nor are you the center of the world. And yes, I’ve lived in cities all over the world, including 20-plus years in DC and worked at the Pentagon during 9/11.
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The world, not just New York, is desensitized to unstable individuals setting off bombs and other reckless behavior. The more people on Earth, the less valuable an individual becomes. The more technology, human intelligence becomes less valuable. The world is on a march to a less human place.
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Uhm, they sort of do.
Hence the semi-police state and uber security measures for every event. NY'ers are scared of their own shadows.
You need to change your headline to: Human Beings Don't Scare Easily.
Every time there is a terrorist attack in the western world - but especially in NY -
the news goes on about how composed and fearless the local populace is.
Londoners don't scare easily; Parisians don't scare easily; people in Manchester don't scare easily; Berliners don't scare easily; Madrid doesn't scare easily. I'm not making fun. I'm stating the obvious: most people will not bow down to these kinds of attacks. I was born and raised in NY, but it sounds overblown to make a thing of New Yorkers' reaction to fear over that of other cities. Enough of that.
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But our friends in the less populated red state areas scare easily. Way too easily. How many New Yorkers are fighting for their right to conceal carry? I've spent over 20 years in Missouri and another 20 years in the Bay Area. Big city folk don't scare easily while our rural friends do.
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Urban Americans don't scare easily. Notice all the places you mentioned are cities.
People in rural America seem to consider themselves hardy and tough - I wonder how long most of them would last in a major city.
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Sigh. I didn't infer any less toughness on the part of people that live elsewhere. Can't the NY Times address the local populace once in a while without everyone getting offended if they're not included that one time? This is about us this time. I think it's nice to feel that we New Yorkers are tough and that we have the support of the NYPD and the New York Times recognizes how we live. Sorry we didn't include the rest of the world THIS ONE TIME.
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What are you saying? New Yorkers are better at handling terrorist attacks than the rest of the country?
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Where is this coming from? I don't that was mentioned once in the article.
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To keep calm and carry on though not an easier choice still societies have no option but to live with it as a forced way to lead life under the shadow of constant fear of terror attack anywhere anytime. It's futile to blame the security and intelligence officials for the failure of detecting and foiling such incidents in time. For, unlike the planned terror attacks, the stray events of the lone wolf terror strikes are hard to predict precisely, though better preparedness is warranted without causing undue inconvenience and anxiety to the public. But beyond security considerations what is more important is the responsibility of the political elements to resist temptation of politicising terror or use it as an excuse for policy inaction in favour of the statist model of governance, that thrives on scaremongering and intrusive surveillance- a kind of state terrorism.
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We are all New Yorkers. ( especially when our leaders do not lead )
The possibility of a single person doing damage in a city of over 10 million is still going to be great ( the police and intelligence agencies notwithstanding ) but our resistance and community is always going to be greater.
You ( Isis ) will NOT defeat us.
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Amen brother. Not even Trump shall defeat us.
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The extent of the danger posed by jihadists isn't just homemade bombs that fail to go off properly. As the NYT reported a while back, they're also looking to obtain nuclear weapons and countries such as Pakistan worry about its ability to keep those weapons safe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/the-world-must-secure-pakista...
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Look.
It's a lot of work to live in a city that is under constant threat. Either we ignore it, or we live in constant fear.
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“New Yorkers don’t get scared easily”
I wonder if this is a cause to celebrate, or to feel proud about. Much like a poor child who is accustomed to physical abuse won’t think much of another episode of abuse, New Yorkers have grown numb to these threats to their lives. Or encouraged to be by NYT so they can continue to render services to those on top.
I wonder if those living in the ivory towers of the city would say the same thing if they or their family members were subjected to the same living condition. But they will never ever have to, they fly their private choppers, no need to ride the subway like their poor fellow citizens!
Please stop this nonsense.
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So, what's the alternative? To give up and live in fear? To move? No, we carry, numb or not.
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"those living in the ivory towers..."? Don't you mean the gilded oligarchical towers? ("Ivory towers" refers to academia, most of whose inhabitants lack private choppers and ride the subways just like everyone else.)
And no, we have not "grown numb to these threats." We love our city & live deeply the rich and varied cultures it presents to us. We don't fall apart when something bad happens and we ARE proud of our steadiness in the face of so much stress. What is really nonsense is someone on the other side of the country telling us now we feel.
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Mr. Kim,
I grew up in NYC and I can tell you that your characterization of a poor victimized child is wrong. New Yorkers are proud of their city and the toughness needed to live and work there. It is the greatest city on earth. Take your own advice, "Please stop this nonsense."
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New Yorkers are certainly a resilient and indomitable group. Yet, those most affected today were certainly commuters from New Jersey. After all, the Port Authority is a major transit hub for New Jerseyans.
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Dear Jersey Girl,
Good point, although the whole west side subway system was messed up. Nonetheless, I believe that people who commute into NYC for work are honorary New Yorkers, as strong and independent-minded as any of those who live here.
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Everyone should read E.B. White's "Here is New York" essay -- the keen description of three categories of New Yorkers though written in (1948?) still applies...
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Not so fast. I am actually very concerned. When driverless cars replace all the cabs and when drones deliver orders automatically, the situation will become worse. We all know that home-grown terrorism is less a problem in the US because of the American dream/upward mobility. When life can be better tomorrow, people stay hopeful. But what about when life is hopeless?! Because there is no easy way to screen terrorist trait, US is running a huge risk. BTW, I found the argument against Trump's Muslim ban disgenuing. Trump actually wanted to ban Muslim Immigrants. He was forced to settled on limited ban. Trump also wants to eliminate immigration based on family reunion.
Don't celebrate too soon. The situation will only become worse. We are all predisposed. It is in our DNA. Religion hopelessness discrimination = nothing to lose. Some of these people will go extreme. Wise up!
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However small the dangers actually are, New Yorkers face them with courage. Not because we're good or brave, but because we have no choice. Those who swallow the opportunistic fear-mongering of Mr. Trump & the right-wing media are neither facing nor fleeing any real danger. They're refusing a complex reality that frightens or confuses them because they have that luxury. And they embrace the false securities of demagogues who tell them that their fear is courage.
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Much respect, NYC. Even out here in the sticks, some of us understand and wish you the very best, every single day. And sometimes, we even get to visit you. And NOT stand around clogging the sidewalk, while gawking.
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There is something really wrong if a foreign pipe bomber attacks people on a city street and nobody bats an eyelash. We should not "keep calm and carry on." We should aggressively address illegal aliens. We should enforce our laws. We should abandon the idiocy of "sanctuary cities" and hold politicians who endorse that lunacy criminally liable for the damage perpetrated on their watch. Then maybe, we would have a society in which there would not be a reason to bat an eyelash.
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Meanwhile, more people are killed due to mass murders by middle aged white men and this country just seemingly makes excuses for this disaffected group. And oh, the NRA just dodges any gun reform lest we take away the 2nd amendment.
Let's look at the stats first before making broad, sweeping policy claims.
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you do realize this guy was here legally?
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This man was here legally. He had a green card. Pay attention.
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Perhaps it is keeping calm. But it might also be a growing indifference. I know I am starting to feel that way. We have both a domestic and international problem involving guns/weapons, lack of education, and hate. Who is actually at the table, looking for peace? In ways that really matter? We need Nelson Mandelas in every nation. Is that so impossible?
For the record, that picture of the crumpled, blackened human on the ground was far, far beyond sad. Thousands of years and we still inflict suffering on one another in way too many ways.
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All of the excuses offered as to why the US is subject to terror attacks has nothing to do with guns, lack of education or as some have suggested, climate change of all things. Muslims have hated infidels, which all non Muslims are, for almost 2,000 years. Don't blame the terror methods, blame the terrorists that carry the attacks out.
No offering or exploring excuses for any. Just think that hate is always due to ignorance. eg, a lack of education. Not saying anything about schooling per se, just about exposure to ideas. And the blame game is just oil on fire. It doesn't end the problem. I get it and I am angry too, but I also know my anger doesn't end the violence; it perpetuates it.
Amen! On my way home, the subway system was normal. As is my normal routine, I ran through the Times Square station to get to my train, and alarmed nobody by running.
Getting to my building, held the door for a neighbor and we joked around about this failed attempt to terrorize. After describing better ways to have gone about it, we realized that a huge number of we savvy Newyorkahs could have done a better job of it than this fool (not that we would, because we're basically good people). Laughed about it a bit and wished each other a good night.
So my impression, from talking to people about it at work too, is that most of us in NYC are already over this. Or our fear of the destruction due to Trump is overshadowing it. Regardless, tomorrow look for a heavier police presence (that will encounter no terrorists), and the majority of Newyorkahs just going about our business as usual, and cramming in some holiday shopping to our hectic schedules.
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and a happy and long life to y'all. Don't let this insanity get to you, is my advice. And when it comes to gifts, it's the thought that counts.
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My experience yesterday was similar. Within and hour or so, things were back to everyday.. much more concerned with spending bicyclists with earbuds and improperly secured construction sheds, cranes, and accidents...
happy holidaze, Dan!!
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Mr. Stackhouse - glad to read that you are okay and are handling this latest insanity with grace and strength. Be well.
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Thanks Marge and Ellen :) Have a great holiday season, and I'll see y'all in the comments sections!
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Please do not continue to use any excuse to praise Bill DeBlasio -- a mayor elected by a small fraction of this city whose police department ignores crime to lower its statistical incidence. We got lucky, and we know it, and we move on. That's all folks.
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Please stop.
There is nothing 'special about New Yorkers'.
If it had been a massive bomb killing hundreds
your editorial
would mean nothing to them.
You may think you are tough
and you may think you 'don't scare easy'
but you are as human as anyone else,
and frankly,
you think too highly of yourself.
I am sorry that terrorists keep attacking
New Yorkers.
But editorials like this do
no one
any good.
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"you may think you 'don't scare easy'"
If people in Wyoming are so tough, why do they have to carry guns everywhere? In Wyoming: "Any person 21 years of age or older, who is not prohibited possessor, may carry a weapon openly or concealed without the need for a license."
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Lynn,
I don't carry a gun.
I have one in the house, a 20 gauge shotgun -
to kill varmits.
Some Ranchers carry them to kill large animals of prey
which may be going after the calves/chickens/piglets.
I suppose if you had a grizzly trying to climb in your window
one morning, you might want a rifle.
I was rather found of New York City
when I lived there, twice when I was young.
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Dear Cassandra,
Sorry but there are a lot of special things about New Yorkers. We have had a massive attack killing thousands of us. Killed friends and acquaintances of mine and I saw it happen. Haven't had that happen in Wyoming, ever, no offense. But we got through that and we keep being remarkably civilized all the time despite living in a loud, busy, fast-paced, incredibly crowded environment.
I've lived in Albany too, a small town of about 150,000 people, and the living is easier. Much less challenging, slower paced, and it's fine for a lot of people. But it didn't cause me as much need to grow personally, or introduce me to as many cultures, or inspire me with as much art and human interaction, as does NYC.
So I apologize for disagreeing, but New Yorkers are special because New York City is a really special place. Come visit sometime and you'll see what I mean, and generally, we will treat you very well. For example, I give cheery directions to strangers about four times a week, because that's the NYC way.
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Wrong NY Times Editorial board. Many NYers are fed up with our city turning into Paris France. Your steadfast denial of the real problems we face from one group will destroy this city. The security we face is destroying the enjoyment of NYC. So crow all you want but you do not speak for most NYers from your ivory tower.
To paraphrase John Kerry's statement about the Vietnam war, "How many NYers will have to die or be injured until you face up to the real problem?"
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"How many NYers will have to die or be injured until you face up to the real problem?"
Yes, how many until we finally get illegal gun trafficking under control by instituting universal background checks, fighting Republican blocks on background checks for serial abusers, stopping Republicans from allowing wannabe terrorists of all backgrounds to get their hands on lethal weapons such as those used in Las Vegas, and stop the insane Republican support for open carry reciprocity.
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Sheesh relax, we're not being invaded by the hated French. And this attack killed nobody. The bomb that went off at 23rd and 6th, right near me actually, killed nobody. The crazed truck driver that ran down bikers killed 8, far less than the usual mass shooting in states with less gun control (which happen every two weeks or less).
New Yorkers get killed by a lot of things, terrorism being one of the lowest on the list, excluding 9/11 itself. But the primary one, as everywhere in America, is heart disease/stroke, so the best thing we can do is try to relax about stuff. Also eat better, exercise, and so on.
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So what’s your point? That the local government in New York is responsible for downplaying terrorism?
For not recognizing the “real problem?” Huh?
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Oh, please! Spare me the predictable back-patting editorial about the hearty breed who inhabit this great city, this metropolis, this Gotham! What makes New Yorkers special is the fact that they HAVE TO GET TO WORK, no matter what! Also, they live amongst people with different backgrounds and ethnicities, generally with minimal complaint, unless they happen to live atop Trump Tower. I agree that New York is a very special place. But the people in it are just people. Now, we Texans, on the other hand . . .
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Texas has a nice vibe but you're comparing big apples to a barrel of regular old, what, oranges? All people are created equal, but in terms of progressive culture, worldly tolerance and evolved acceptance, no one takes a bite out of us. We are the epitome of what backwards ideologies such as Al'queda and ISIL despise. It only reinforces my belief we have a certain brand of grit no one else has.
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@Big Text: "What makes New Yorkers special is the fact that they HAVE TO GET TO WORK, no matter what!" Really? Are you thinking that people elsewhere DON'T have to?
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I think the quote, in another article, from the poor neighbor of this pathetic terrorist embodies the New York spirit:
"“He used to block the driveway,” Mr. Butrico complained. “His family used to block the driveway all the time.”"
Yes, that truly is what its like to live here.
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This is something New Yorkers should never - ever - forget about Monday's attack: The timeline. The explosion occurred during rush hour; the `president', a native New Yorker, was immediately briefed on the events. Now this is critical: What was his next move? Did he issue a statement, expressing his concern for the people of his hometown and the nation? No. A White House statement, politicizing the incident, came later in the day. What the `president' made his No. 1 priority after the bombing was this: He tweeted his anger over a NYT's story that referenced his seemingly insatiable appetite for cable television. That's right. Shaken New Yorkers, a nation dismayed at hearing of another attack, came in second. Little Donnie's ego was hurt and we all know everything else is secondary. Shameless.
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The more relevant timeline is that a NY "terror" attack followed a Mueller bombshell and a report of someone's poll numbers sinking below 35%.
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The fact that you focus on Trump over NYers says all about you and how little you care about NYC and its people.
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Trump is the first President that hundreds of Psychiatrists all over the country in lay terms say that he is "crazy" and need psychiatric help. What did New York expect from this guy.
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You are deluding yourself to think New Yorkers don't scare easily. Manhattanites soil themselves when they exit the L Train east of Jefferson or north of 125th St.
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Dear Cooper,
Speak for yourself, I head north of 125th all the time. Nobody I encounter seems scared, not even of me.
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I cycle and walk north of 125th Street. I'm not scared when I do so and fellow NYers in the neighborhood are friendly and not...just like other areas of the city. Try it sometime!
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How poorly you know the city in which you claim to live. It sounds as though you don't even realize that "north of 125th St." IS Manhattan.
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Thank you to the Port Authority Police, the NYPD and my fellow New Yorkers! I got on the E train soon after the explosion and the driver said, "I'll get you all to Queens! Not sure how, but I'm gonna get you to Queens!" We all become family in times of strife. New York is a jewel.
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You just reminded me, Jennifer, of what a friend in Los Angeles wrote to me last week. She said that she and all those she knows are just so grateful to the firefighters who are doing their best to keep people safe. From experience I know that we keep on truckin' with the help of the police and subway workers and firemen and teachers, who help us meld into one at critical moments. You are so right.
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Hey whaddya gonna do?
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Bravo New York, my home town. Keep setting the example for the nation, for the world.
To the would-be terrorists who think they can cow New Yorkers: fogeddaboutit.
To the NYPD and the PAPD: well done. Truly professional PDs.
To the people of New York City: the world applauds you for having the courage and fortitude to pick yourselves up, dust yourselves off, and fearlessly get on with your life.
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Weird how liberals make it a point of pride to feel nothing when terrorist attack their communities. Normal people would fight back and stop the influx of the one group of people who keep perpetrating these attacks. Liberals just go on, like sheep to the slaughter, and call that courage.
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@Andrew: Interesting. I don't see the people of Las Vegas (Harvest Festival shooting), or Sutherland Springs (TX church shooting), or Plano (8 shot dead at a home in Sept 2017) or other mass shootings fighting back and stopping the influx of "of the one group of people who keep perpetrating these attacks." You know who I mean, right? White men with guns?
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But Conservatives want to spend unlimited amounts of money on terrorism that is like.010% likely to kill you. But children and adults get slaughtered by the thousands by guns and the answer is more guns. Don't touch the 2nd amendment for nothing, but trample the 4th for a little bit of security. Who's the chicken
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Liberals......as opposed to what? To be liberal is to be tolerant, kind, generous, patient, understanding and when necessary, courageous. We don't call other people by nasty names, we don't judge people by their religion or ethnicity, just by their behavior, one person at a time. Most of us "bad liberals who are ruining the country" wouldn't have it any other way.
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i don't really agree with this article. i've been living in new york for almost 20 years. the reason so many new yorkers don't react to events such as today's is because we're complacent, self-absorbed and overworked. and sorry, but trump is a typical new yorker!
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You've come to that conclusion after living here for almost 20 years? I have cockroaches older than that. Well, this native 52 year old New Yorker disagrees with you.
I find New Yorkers to be hard shelled, resilient and compassionate. We don’t panic easily and yet we do help people who fall or hurt themselves. Twice in the pass six months I’ve tripped crossing the street and each time a number of people came over to ask if I need help. We are survivors, but I think we do try to survive we some thought to the people around us.
We may have a hard shell but we also have heart.
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When all is said and done and history has had its say, ISIS will go the way of a de-fanged Qaeda and New York City still will be New York City. Of far greater threat are rising seas, but, somehow, New York will meet that challenge as well. If any of us reading this editorial are still vertical in another century, we’ll still be complaining about Wall Street greed and pockets of excessive crime, but also still marvel at the ability of the city to constantly reinvent itself neighborhood by neighborhood, the ability of millions of people rubbing up against each other daily while remaining mostly human, and the countless acts of random kindness and generosity that make it all somehow bearable.
New York City is indomitable.
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I'm guessing New York will go back to its Dutch roots for help with the ocean. Too bad the world won't commit to a systemic cure.
But for New York, we'll look to Amsterdam.
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Best compliment was from Belgian who wrote a travel guide to NYC. He said, people will say New Yorkers are rude and unhelpful, but his research based upon actual travelers was that if you are on Times Square with camera around your neck and opening a map, you can count the seconds, usually less than 10, before a New Yorker will come over and offer to help you to your destination.
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ISIS and al-Qaelda are only two terrrorist organizations embracing the same culture of fundametalist Islamic supremacism as, first of all many other terrorist organizations and also, as important, groups like the Muslim Brotherhood that attempt to infiltrate Western governements and cultural institutions.
Don't be suckered by labels. You don't demolish a building by peeling the paint.
New Yorkers crossed the Rubicon after witnessing and surviving the horrific events on 9/11. That day made New Yorkers tougher, stronger and more stoic. A resolve emerged in which New Yorkers refused to retreat, give up or back down. My mother used to say that out of every negative and bad experience comes wisdom and something positive. I think New Yorkers live this idea every day of their lives. They value and appreciate life more than ever and are the first to run to a stranger to help should a crisis occur.
Whenever I find myself in a scary situation and begin to panic, I think of New Yorkers and how they dealt with their own fears and feelings of terror in the past. They possess a certain calmness and they keep a cool head in the midst of a crisis. As evil, deadly and terrible as 9/11 was, on some levels, those events helped shape and mold a stronger and tougher New Yorker. The courage New Yorkers show is inspiring to me and to the world.
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Thank you for these kind words.
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Well said, Ms. Keller. Well said.
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