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> New York City Shuts Down
>
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>
>
> NEW YORK -- Terrorist attacks at the peak of rush hour paralyzed
> Manhattan, shutting down subway lines, crippling cellular phone
> service, and forcing evacuations from Wall Street to the United
> Nations.
>
> The mayor closed lower Manhattan to make way for emergency
> vehicles. Thousands of people left by walking across the Brooklyn
> Bridge.
>
> The election was called off. The airports were closed. Trading on
> Wall Street was suspended. The United Nations building was
> evacuated. Offices throughout Manhattan closed. Children were kept
> in their schools because their parents could not get to them.
>
> Victims from the attack on the World Trade Center -- many suffering
> from extensive burns -- began arriving at hospitals in New York
> City about an hour after the two planes slammed into the twin
> towers, witnesses said Tuesday.
>
> "Hundreds of people are burned from head to toe," said Dr. Steven
> Stern at St. Vincent's Hospital in the Greenwich Village
> neighborhood of lower Manhattan.
>
> About 50 or 60 doctors and nurses were standing in scrubs and
> uniforms waiting for the next wave of ambulances to come in. The
> first wave arrived around 10 a.m. EDT, doctors said.
>
> The entire entrance to the emergency room was lined with stretchers
> covered with white sheets.
>
> Doctors said the victims mostly had burns.
>
> "So far we've received
> a few patients, mostly second-degree burns," Dr. Gary Fishman at
> St. Vincents said. "We are expecting the brunt of the people to
> arrive soon."
>
> Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told New Yorkers to remain in their homes or
> businesses, unless they are located south of Canal Street. People
> in the downtown area are advised to head north and clear out the
> streets.
>
> "Remain calm and try to assist in the rescue effort and pray,"
> Giuliani said. "The main thing is having these streets open so we
> can move people out of there."
>
> Most of the early patients were being sent to New York University's
> Downtown Hospital and to St. Vincent's.
>
> At about 8:45 a.m. EDT, a plane struck one the north tower of the
> landmark complex in lower Manhattan, and the building was soon
> engulfed in flames. Moments later a second plane struck the south
> tower.
>
> Both towers of the complex collapsed, the first falling about 75
> minutes later and the second crashing half an hour after that. The
> entire south end of Manhattan was engulfed in smoke and airborne
> debris.
>
> "The whole of lower Manhattan is coated in half an inch of dust,"
> Reuters reporter Daniel Sternoff said.
>
> People were fleeing the area in a panic.
>
> At St. Vincents, hospital
> staff appealed for blood donors in the street, Reuters reporter Ian
> Driscoll said. The line to give blood was over 100 people long.
>
> "We expect smoke inhalation, trauma, and burns," Dr. Bernd Reisbeck
> said. "I expect we will be working non-stop for at least the next
> 24 hours."
>
> At every pay phone, people were lined up a dozen deep to call loved
> ones, but many ended up hanging up in frustration at the profusion
> of busy signals. At one pay phone in Greenwich Village, a woman was
> sobbing into the phone, saying she didn't know whether a loved one
> was OK.
>
> Cell phone service throughout Manhattan was interrupted. Regular
> phone service was congested, forcing many callers to dial
> repeatedly to get through. AT&T shut down its entire phone and
> communications system in Manhattan, according to a spokesman, who
> declined to give his name.
>
> Bridges and tunnels leading also were closed, a Port Authority
> spokeswoman said, leaving hundreds of trucks and cars stuck as they
> tried to enter the city.
>
> All subway lines stopped running, said Bob Slovak, spokesman for
> NYC Transit.
>
> Rockefeller Center, the complex of offices and shops that is a
> favorite tourist destination in the heart of the city, was among
> the buildings where property managers urged tenants to go home.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/nyregion/11CND-NYC.html?ex=1001233630&ei=1&e
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