Saw an interview of Guiliani by Faherty on the Golf Channel that was pretty good. In it Guiliani said that one of the reasons he loves NY is that you can visit and entire world and never leave the city - that no matter what far away place you are from there is someone already there from NY.
You would think that if this gets loose that NY could be destroyed.
NYC is probably the best prepared major city in the world for these kinds of disasters.
It's a tough neighborhood. NYC might perish anyway. But it will go down snarling inch by bloody inch.