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Like most people who have lived in the same place for a long time, New Yorkers believe they know their city pretty well. The blackout, however, allowed people to recognize in their prosaic settings a world they seldom see. The Queensboro Bridge did not actually change during the blackout, but I can promise you that it looks a lot different when you are crossing it on foot, along with thousands of other people. Along Fifty-Eighth Street, restaurant workers sat outside their eateries on chairs better suited for office work or dinner than for outdoor lounging. Firefighters sat outside their...
...crossed the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan, I found myself wondering what it was that motivated me and so many otherwise ordinary people to run this race. I used to think that some things one does simply defy explanation. The mere fact that a particularly difficult thing is there to be done, coupled with the discovery that one is capable of doing it, transforms the act of doing into a sort of celebration of existence that justifies itself. This was the reasoning I formerly used to explain my running...
...remarkably little panic as well--more steel and ingenuity: Where am I going to sleep tonight? How will I get home? "They can't keep New Jersey closed forever," a man said. Restaurant-supply companies on the Bowery handed out wet towels. A cement mixer drove toward the Queensboro Bridge with dozens of laborers holding onto it, hitching a ride out of town. Overcrowded buses, one after another, shipped New York's workers north. Ambulances, some covered with debris, sped past them, ferrying the injured to the waiting hospitals...
...remarkably little panic as well--more steel and ingenuity: Where am I going to sleep tonight? How will I get home? "They can't keep New Jersey closed forever," a man said. Restaurant-supply companies on the Bowery handed out wet towels. A cement mixer drove toward the Queensboro Bridge with dozens of laborers holding onto it, hitching a ride out of town. Overcrowded buses, one after another, shipped New York's workers north. Ambulances, some covered with debris, sped past them, ferrying the injured to the waiting hospitals...
...said the highlight of his race came at mile 15, after he crossed the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan. "I could say that the most amazing part of the race...was running off the Queensboro Bridge onto First Avenue," he said. "I was running almost alone with loads of people all around on both sides of the street...