9-11-08

DSC09391, originally uploaded by BillyNYC.

Not much of a view from the roof top of my place on 119th street but it still caused me to take time and remember.

I was living on 103rd street (just 3 months in nyc) and was awoken by my roomates to watch the news in shock. I remember my family couldn't get me on my phone until the afternoon, so they were kinda freaked. I remember going to dinner with some friends in Chelsea that night 7 years ago and seeing people with masked covering their mouth. U couldn't go past 14th street, they had blocked everything off. And then I remember the missing signs started to appear every where, first a couple then entire bus stops covered in paper.

I hear this is the last year those lights will shine, contract on where the floor light sit has run out. I hope it continues. It helps remind us all.