The Pulse Of New York

"Even urban geography is destiny, and New York, a long thin island, cuts downtown off from uptown, west side off from east. (And a kind of moral miniaturization is always at work, as we try unconsciously to seal ourselves from the disaster: people in Europe say "America attacked" and people in America say "New York attacked" and people in New York think, Downtown attacked.) For the financial community, this was the Somme; it was impossible not to know someone inside that building, or thrown from it. Whole companies, tiny civilizations, an entire Zip Code vanished."

Thanks to The New Urbanism