I remember my mother waking me up and telling me that she thought terrorists had flown planes into the World Trade Center. Not having ever known a person from New York, or ever having gone there, and also because I had to go to work in a few hours, I just went back to bed. I remember thinking: "yeah, America was pretty overdue for a major terrorist attack."

Then when the towers fell, I got woken up again, but this time I stayed up because it seemed more interesting. I went to work and talked about it with people for the next few months but I always remember it as something I really couldn't have cared much about. I DID care about the bullshit war though.

Anyway, I always find myself surprised when I think back on it, because I wound up moving to NYC in 2006 and living there for almost four years.

After I got used to the city (I worked on 35th street) it was really strange to hear my co-workers talk about their own experiences. It really affected me more than it ever had before. I'd hear my boss say something like: "I got out of the station at Chambers (our previous office was a lot closer to the site) and everyone was just standing still."

That's really fucking creepy. If I ever got out of any station on Manhattan early on a Tuesday morning and everyone was just standing there, I probably would've shit myself. Once you get used to the way Manhattan streets are always buzzing with people all doing their own separate thing, that footage takes on a whole new meaning.

Two of my other co-workers wound up having to walk all the way home to the Bronx. It doesn't seem like it if you look at Google maps, but that's a long, long, long walk. Especially for a Yenta who takes cabs everywhere. I walk a lot, but when I thought about my two fat-assed (no offense girls) co-workers making that walk, I was pretty seriously moved. It must have been traumatizing for them. And I say that in all seriousness.

That's about as short as I can make my mushy "I saw the light" story of learning about how real 9/11 was for some people. I visited the Trade Canter site on two of the anniversaries when I lived there, and seeing all those people and their cards and flowers was very moving. Not to mention seeing the scale of the block involved and getting to know the area. (which is best seen if you walk around and then through the lobby of the World Financial Center to the west BTW) Standing there and looking up, having never seen the towers in person, it is dizzying trying to imagine what it must have looked like. I'm not sure that any news footage could ever convey what people who were there must have really seen.

I worked on the 13th (12A) floor of my building and that was scary enough sometimes.

These are various scenes from "Fort Apache, The Bronx" (1981). The scene 37 seconds into it (two guys running through piles of garbage) was the end scene, if the camera had continued to pan downwards, you would have seen a rolled up rug containing the body of a dead woman.

*Voted up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Apache_the_Bronx

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Chan?
Quick! name ten things that aren't jackie chan>> ^quantumushroom:
Jackie.



Rumble in the Bronx....Ohhh DAMN!

LEAVE THE BRONX

It's as if some random, loud-mouthed mook from the Bronx had been given a podium and a microphone, and told to try to talk about politics.

I've heard more intelligent political discourse from cab-drivers and hair-dressers.

Dan Savage was on the (fantastic) Fresh Air radio program yesterday.

He read this video word for word in response to the question, "Which submission is your favorite?" He said, saying that it doesn't get better but that you get stronger is like the Bronx version of "It Gets Better."

19 is: Kick in the Door - Notorious BIG - couldn't remember the title earlier.
@MrFisk may be able to contribute to the rest - that's all I know.

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
Thanks, any more knowledge you can toss my way is much appreciate.

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
Here's a few:

12. Real Hip Hop - Das EFX
13. Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Ol' Dirty Bastard
14. Method Man - Method Man
15. KRS - Step Into A World
16. Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
17. Gang Starr - Full Clip
18. California Love - Tupac
19. TITLE - Notorious BIG
20. My Name Is - Eminem
21.
22.
23.
24. Mo' Murda - Bone Thugs 'n Harmony
25. Forgot About Dre - Eminem
26. Still DRE - Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg

Thanks, any more knowledge you can toss my way is much appreciate.

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
Here's a few:

12. Real Hip Hop - Das EFX
13. Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Ol' Dirty Bastard
14. Method Man - Method Man
15. KRS - Step Into A World
16. Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
17. Gang Starr - Full Clip
18. California Love - Tupac
19. TITLE - Notorious BIG
20. My Name Is - Eminem
21.
22.
23.
24. Mo' Murda - Bone Thugs 'n Harmony
25. Forgot About Dre - Eminem
26. Still DRE - Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg

Here's a few:

12. Real Hip Hop - Das EFX
13. Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Ol' Dirty Bastard
14. Method Man - Method Man
15. KRS - Step Into A World
16. Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
17. Gang Starr - Full Clip
18. California Love - Tupac
19. Kick in the Door - Notorious BIG
20. My Name Is - Eminem
21.
22.
23.
24. Mo' Murda - Bone Thugs 'n Harmony
25. Forgot About Dre - Eminem
26. Still DRE - Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg

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Hello Dave, it would be great if you could review Umbertos Clam House on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx for Italian Delicacies. It has great range of Seafood, Steaks, Pastas and Chops….definitely worth featuring.....

>> ^Bronx:
"considering it's source"? just more VideoSift Leftist crybaby comments.


Please do not feed the trolls.

>> ^Bronx:

"considering it's source"? just more VideoSift Leftist crybaby comments.

Fox?!? This video is fascist!

>> ^Bronx:

"considering it's source"? just more VideoSift Leftist crybaby comments.


Have you ever met quantummushroom?

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