I'm sure the big gaping hole downtown and the fact that they plan to fill it with a monument to flaccidity and cowardice isn't contributing to happiness levels.
On a serious note, I would think that depression would be a reasonable reaction of New Yorkers to what they have experienced with 911.
The passing of a few years cannot erase the horror experienced on September 11, 2001.
We went into a war in Afghanistan and then on to Iraq and the apologists in this country have found reason (and continue to find reason) to condemn both actions.
There has been no resolve, no healing, no reasonable way to DEAL with what has occurred. No one in this liberal enclave DARE to speak the truth, lest they be labeled a 'Bushie'. We are in a country that (for some) cannot support our President, even in an action which is correct. The fear of not being in the PC mode is greater than our fear of extinction.