why does it always catch me by surprise (and by the throat)? Turns out that I am a broken record. In thinking about posting today I was going to start something like “As recently as this past weekend, I…
Tag: September 11
this day comes again, mournfully as always
Tagged with: Memorial, Names, National Catholic Reporter, September 11, Tribute In Light, World Trade Center
still, a sad day, remarkably so
so just a bunch of linksNice and short piece (especially nice, for being so short) in The Broadsheet Daily yesterday, heading a list of events that memorialize September 11, 2001. I hope he won’t mind me quoting the paragraph, in…
I cannot deal with the media orgy today
not sure why, after ten yearsAs of about a week ago, I thought this year would be different. That I would be able to read stories and look at video and images from ten years ago, and even to (finally)…
Tagged with: Firefighters, Media, Ny Times, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, September 11, World Trade Center
28 Laight Street loft sale under-performs neighbor's sale
not like young Yankee pitchersThe Manhattan loft #5C at 28 Laight Street (Cobblestone Lofts, converted to condominiums in 2001) came to market last Fall just two days after the neighbor downstairs in loft #2B went to contract. These neighboring lofts…
Tagged with: Cobblestone, Competition, Comps, Efficient, Holland Tunnel, Laight, Neighbor, Rational, September 11, Yankees
same day, another year
This year I am only going to offer two quotes from a mother who lost a daughter and a not-yet-grandchild that day, taken from her essay, The Sensitivities of 9/11 Families: Since that morning, time in my world is no…
8 years, still fresh
quote of the dayRudy Giuliani, whom I loathe, read this morning from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom I revere. Let’s just say that Rudy made a nice choice: “Everybody can be great,” he said, “because anybody can…
September 11, again
I will re-post what I said on this date two years ago, slightly updated: It turns out that I am most definitely not able to post much of anything today, and still unable to read (let alone watch) what…
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