Posted on 01/24/2005 7:24:53 PM PST by neverdem
Cutesy attempt at sarcasm, but the shopping cart full of crap is the sign of a homeless person.
Take the 2 or 3 train to Wall Street. Or the J M or Z stops somewhere close to the NYSE.
Except that all trains (except the E) have an above-ground section of their routes, and it is NOT particularly warm at those points.
If you have ever seen the size of kitchens in some NYC apartments, then you know that this room was truly small, indeed.
THe fire was caused -- not by Islam -- but by a homeless person who was trying to keep warm.
To my way of thinking, attirbuting something like this to "Islam" is not too much different from some of the rants I read over on DU about how President Bush made 9/11/01 happen "on purpose".
Both sorts of comments are motivated by hate, in my view.
And hate, when it is in full flower, results in the bombing of office buildings by fully-loaded commercial jet aircraft.
So, does Bloomy go with Pittsburgh or Paris?
Thanks! I guess I have a few options since I'll be transferring from a Q.
If you can transfer to a W or R train, you can take it to the Cortlandt Street stop, which just on the east side of the WTC site, on Church Street. I *think* there might be one stop further downtown, but I'm not 100% sure where it is.
You need to get a life DU troll
You seem never to read what is written to you---and then you take that poor read to make some moronic half-baked statement.
But that is to be expected of an apologist like yourself.
Chambers/WTC is underground, and the E terminates there.
For that matter it's a long ride to an above ground station on any train from Chambers.
If it really was a homeless guy, I expect he was simply deranged.
"Yes, the article was clear, but it took only five minutes for someone to implicate Islam. This knee-jerk B.S. is absurd."
About as absurd as you referring to anyone that happens to disagree with you as 1) a liar 2) Anti American or 3) a Bigot.
Still waiting for you to condemn the 9/11 attacks---but you just can't, eh?
Right, but if they're looking for a place to sleep, the E is it. There's a reason it's known as the "mobile homeless shelter" during the winters.
I have virtually no doubt it was a homeless person who did this. Terrorist attacks don't leave people scratching their heads days later and pondering whether or not it was terrorism.
Was planning on taking the C from Penn Station up to W77 st in a couple weeks...sounds like a cab is a better idea maybe? I'm not from NYC.
I suppose high heat could weaken and overload copper lines as the old insulation burned away; if there was aluminum wire it could have burned as well.
Sounds like a good time to hit the keepers-of-the-purse up for those millions for a new computerized system.
A lot of the homeless in NYC are mentally ill----but NY'er can thank Mario Cuomo for closing most of the state mental facilities and the liberals for saying the mentally ill (even the dangerously so) have the right to live where they want. They cna't even force the mentall ill to take theie medication in the hospital.
This is not the first fire that has happened---and not even the worst. A fire in '91 nearly wiped out the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal. It was attributed to a homeleass camp---but the city tried to say it was electrical (but they forgot there wwas no wiring in the area it started!)
Guiliani, to his credit, put a stop to the worst of it--
Take the A train (music please!) to 42nd--switch to the Times Sq. Shuttle then take the #1 to 77th street
Maybe they will have the A train pick up the slack of the C----or maybe the C will run above Penn Station.
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