[fone]

Could you tell me how far is Union Square from Grand Central Station? She's stated at different times she was at both places, also in another story she said she was 12 blocks away from WTC...could all three of these statements be true?

Thanks from flyover country

[hellinahandcart]

Grand Central is a little over a mile north of Union Square. Chelsea must have walked her poor little feet right off that day, because the WTC was about two & a half miles SOUTH of Union Square, and supposedly she was "twelve blocks away" when it collapsed.

Unless she took the subway to Grand Central for some reason--but then she wouldn't have seen all those hordes of screaming people rushing OUT, she would have been part of the crowd.

[L_Von_Mises]

Could you tell me how far is Union Square from Grand Central Station? She's stated at different times she was at both places, also in another story she said she was 12 blocks away from WTC...could all three of these statements be true?

In NYC it is twenty blocks to the mile running North and South so Grand Central is at 42nd Street and Union Square is at 14th Street. That makes it about a mile and a half.

Once you get south of Union Sqare the distances between blocks is much less, but WTC is well below where First Street is. I tried to figure out the distance using Mapquest, it was 2.5 miles from Union Square to WTC.

Route from WTC to Union Square

It looks to be a few more than twelve blocks - maybe she was counting the ones in her head?