Pauline Frommer's New York City
Chapter One
My Love Letter
To New York
The Best the City Has to Offer
In the anxious days following 9/11, I knew a lot of people-parents
of small children, in particular-who considered moving out of the city. We all
wondered if we could continue living in a place that was so obviously a target.
And as we began drawing up emergency plans, plotting escapes across bridges,
telling family members under which tree in Central Park we'd meet them should
another attack occur, I wondered if I was a fool for wanting to stay. There was a
feeling that life would never return to normal, that we were a broken city, and that
something fundamental had been lost.
Something fundamental was lost, of course-our innocence, our sense of security,
and some 3,000 of our friends, neighbors, and family members. But the city
and its residents have rebounded with a steely nerve and sense of exuberance that
I wouldn't have thought possible in 2001. New York is thriving. Crime is at its
lowest rate in decades, visitor numbers have reached historic levels, and the
preschools here are turning aw ... read full excerpt from Pauline Frommer's New York City ebook
