[durasell]

New Yorkers came together. As corny as it sounds, it's true. For a brief moment in history, race, income, etc. etc. didn't matter in NYC. I think people remember that, even after everything is now back to relative normal. So I'd like to think that except for isolated incidents of morons seizing the chance, the city wouldn't devolve during a crisis.

[Clemenza]

I don't care for Kelly or Bloomberg, but I think that they would dispatch extra units to the outer boroughs really quick. Every cop still sleeping at home in Goshen, Pearl River, or Commack would be given orders to come in or face the rest of their career writing parking tickets on Staten Island. I also believe that Pataki, or even Spitzer were he to be governor, would have the National Guard there, pronto. New Yorkers have their faults, but they would never elect a Governor Blanco.

BTW: When the (admittedly small) Harlem Riot occurred in 1964 or '65 (can't remember), the NYPD decided to do a "baton charge" all in a line. Of course the looters simply got out of the way and ran through the side streets, breaking windows along the way.

[wtc911]

New Yorkers came together. As corny as it sounds, it's true. For a brief moment in history, race, income, etc. etc. didn't matter in NYC.

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Not si in the people's republic of Park Slope where my little brother (USMC with the Combat Ribbon) took on a bar of eoro-lefty(from flyover country)-lesbo a-holes who were saying we deserved it...only two days later. I think he went in the joint looking for trouble, at least I like to think so.