Sept. 11
Lower Manhattan rebuilds again, until the next time
Landlords, businesses and residents have more financial incentive than ever to invest in the neighborhood, even as the damage wrought by the hurricane has many climate experts predicting a future of devastating storms like Sandy. More
A scandalous story about Nightingale-Bamford comes out blurry
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
(1)Apuzzo and Goldman's long campaign: Behind the Associated Press' big NYPD counterterror investigation
The two reporters pitched the NYPD story, explaining that a variety of sources had been dishing to them on the department's aggressive anti-terror tactics.
"They said, 'Look, we wanna break some news here, not write navel-gazing stories about how America has changed, or, "Did the terrorists win?", or how dramatic this was,'" Bridis recalled. "That was the genesis."
The stories have been just that: Solid reportage from the front-lines of the tradeoff between civil liberties and security, not from a philosophical or legal standpoint but from the standpoint of actual facts on the ground.
For New Yorkers, the reports give body to the most delicate quandaries to have emerged from the rubble of 9/11.
For the AP, it justifies the wire's calculated increase in U.S. intelligence community coverage in recent years. It's a tough beat, and the gatekeepers of American journalism didn't exactly nail it the last time around, when their credulous reporting on W.M.D. in the early 2000s helped usher in a protracted war that American troops are only now preparing to withdraw from.
"It's an enormous area for society to be watching," said Mike Oreskes, the AP's senior managing editor for U.S. news. "For journalism to be watching."
Norman Siegel on the phone-hacking case against Murdoch in the U.S.
"Mostly, we will look at anti-hacking laws, anti-corruption laws on the federal and state level. We’re trying to match the facts with regard to his clients in London to the legal statutes in New York," said Siegel. "We know that people in London from News of the World hacked into his clients' phones. The question becomes, did News Corp. people in New York know? Were they aware of it? Did they participate? Did they sanction it?" More
It's simply a day for that picture of Robert Peraza
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
At P.S. 1, an exhibit that lets the viewer learn how viewing has changed since Sept. 11
The brilliance is really in the curation. Eleey largely avoids work that seeks to address the tragedy directly, paradoxically making the work he presents address the event more powerfully, and more personally. We would stop short if we saw a work that we could not ourselves connect to the events of Sept. 11—if, say, suddenly Edward Hopper's Nighthawks made an appearance. But what could wall-text add to the inevitable association, in the context of an exhibit titled "September 11," of George Segal's 1998 sculpture Woman on a Park Bench, bronze but with a white patina that evokes the images of ash-covered evacuees making their way from the smoking debris of Lower Manhattan that day? More
Cometh the moment, talketh the man: Giuliani on Sept. 11, and 2012
"And I feel comfortable as a Republican because I get to define it the way I want to define it," Giuliani told a crowd of influence-wielders on a small stage at a Meatpacking District photo-studio and gallery. "And that makes it a real hard time getting nominated." More
The collective trauma that brought New York closer together, except for Battery Park City
Battery Park City, located on the west side of West Street in downtown Manhattan, directly across from where the attacks of September 11 took place, has always been different. Conceived originally by David Rockefeller, then vice-chair of Chase Manhattan, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the development was essentially built to house finance executives and other white-collar workers during a period in which those sorts of people were escaping the city for a growing number of suburbs.
The 'first, rough draft' of the Sept. 11th attacks, remembered by the people who wrote it
Like so many, reporter Sonny Kleinfield was watching live footage of the damage to the first tower when, in real time, a second plane careened into its twin. Five minutes later, Kleinfield was leaving the building. He brought three notebooks. More
A specific credible unconfirmed uncorroborated car-bomb threat to N.Y. and D.C., plain and simple
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
Three days before 9/11, the DCCC runs a Bob-Turner-is-rich ad showing a plane buzzing the Manhattan skyline
A reader not involved with either campaign in the NY-9 race called to say the DCCC's new ad, which features a cartoon image of plane flying over the New York City skyline, may not be the best thing to air three days before the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. More
Earnest and tidy, a play's view of Sept. 12th, and beyond, is not for New York, really
Those of us who were here on 9/11 and in the weeks and months that followed have the original memory. For the rest of America, there are answers here, written down when they could still be remembered, to questions nobody thinks to ask anymore. More
Obama to wade through clumsy tabloid metaphor onto Ground Zero site today
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
(1)Osama Bin Laden is dead, and we know how we feel
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
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