[Big Bunyip]

Any other new Yorkers wonder why anyone in their right mind would have wanted to job around the Twin Towers? Battery Park, sure. the waterfront paths at Battery Park City, OK.

But dodging crowds on the dark streets downtown makes no sense whatsoever.

Can't beat those Clintons. Just when you think they can't slide any lower, they do.

[AnnO]

Good thinking....that is not an area where people jog especially at 8:45 on a Tuesday morning when people were streaming into those Towers to get to work. It just is not logical to me....Battery Park is logical but jogging around the World Trade Center is illogical. I have not lived there for a few years and perhaps it has changed but could it be another Arkansas Black Church burning adventure that occurs between the ears and comes out the mouth. The acorn does not fall from the Family Tree is more likely.

[NYCVirago]

I was just wondering the same thing as you about the jogging. The other thing I noticed is this: we didn't hear anything about Chelsea's whereabouts (it sounded like she was in England) until *after* Chuck Schumer gave a very moving speech in Congress about how his daughter's high school was two blocks away from the towers, and how terrified he was seeing the events unfold.

Then all of a sudden we started hearing the spin about how Chelsea was 13 blocks away from the towers. Then we hear she was actually going to jog around the towers (which makes no sense, unless it depends upon what the meaning of "around" is -- why would someone jog on crowded city streets during the morning rush hour). But stopping for a cup of coffee miraculously saved Princess Chelsea.

Give me a break -- the only senator in New York who had a valid fear about his daughter's safety was Schumer, not Clinton.

[The Kitten]

The streets are not really that dark downtown though some of the older ones sandwiched between wall street and pearl street and water street are narrow and twisting. But at 9:15 am by the world trade center it is brigh as day with the reflected shine of the shimmmering steel twin towers and bright as can be in that vicinity. What is more, the WTC vicinity is brimming with stock and bond traders in their thousands since at least six subway routes stop there, and other sorts of humanity, elbow to elbow, no passing room, jostling, crunching, crowding and merely walking at the speed at which some people run. Anyone trying to jog into that would be shoved aside and spat on.