Pictures of Hope

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My office has been off-limits since Tuesday and I've been going stir-crazy at home.  I decided to go into Manhattan on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001 to see what was REALLY going on. Hey, it was a lot better than staring at the 24/7 news coverage and getting more depressed by the second.

This sign greeted me as I exited the R subway station at East 60th and Lexington Ave.

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The first grouping of missing persons notices were on a makeshift "bulletin board" outside the Kenneth Cole store on Park Ave.

Missing persons signs plaster the windows of the Staples office supply store on Park Ave. at 26th street (just west of the Armory).

I took some time to relight some of these candles and cry for the missing and the dead at the Staples "shrine."

These women were signing an American flag that someone had secured to the fence outside the Armory, leaving messages to rescuers and families.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird - That kept so many warm Emily Dickinson c. 1861

A tree around the corner from the Armory holds a poignant message.

Even telephone booths near the Armory are called into service.