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To mark the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks that killed thousands in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and shook the world, The Citizen is reprinting some of its coverage from New York City in the days that followed.
Originally published, Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 13, 2001.
The world went frighteningly silent on Tuesday.
Yesterday, it could manage no more than a stumbling return to work in the wake of catastrophic terrorist strikes across the United States.
In Canada, airports clogged with Americans are slowly beginning to resume normal operations and stores and offices took down their closed signs.
But New York’s normal hustle was reduced to a shuffle in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center.
Commuters stayed home, businesses were shuttered, highways sealed and a huge section of downtown Manhattan closed to all but emergency traffic. Broadway shows were cancelled, museums and zoos closed and events called off.
The city’s cultural jewels, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Central Park and Bronx zoos were closed. So was the New York City Aquarium. The fall fashion shows, at which designers stage elaborate showings of their latest fashions, were called off for the week.
With the two towers of the Trade Center lying in a grotesque mountain at the heart of Manhattan’s financial world, it was no surprise Wall Street was shuttered for the second day. That made it the longest NYSE stoppage since the market closed for two days at the end of the Second World War.
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All U.S. financial institutions will remain closed today, while Canadian stock and bond markets, which kept their doors shut yesterday, are expected to be in business today. Other major markets around the globe had not closed.
In Washington, it was reported that cancellation of the September meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank is inevitable.
However, efforts were being made to return the U.S. capital to some sort of normalcy. Congress reconvened in an extra fortified Capitol building. And Pentagon workers returned to duty even though parts of the building were reportedly still smouldering following the air attack of the previous day.
World sports took the tragedy seriously. Major League Baseball called off its entire schedule for both yesterday and today. The terrorist attacks also brought professional and college sports to a standstill and it was unclear when they would resume.
Baseball’s move was the first such precedent since 1918, when the season was cut short by almost a month because of the First World War. The Montreal Expos are scheduled to play the Mets in New York tomorrow.
The NHL has yet to decide whether to go ahead with Saturday’s exhibition games. Meanwhile the New York Rangers were to have opened training camp on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden, which is close to the scene of the Manhattan attacks. Latest reports suggest it will now begin today.
In Canada, the Ontario Hockey League postponed the start of its regular season from tomorrow to Friday. Many U.S. college football games scheduled this week have been called off and the NFL is considering whether to play Sunday.
Europe’s soccer governing body postponed all its matches for the rest of this week “out of a mark of respect” for the victims of the attacks. Eight Champions League and more than 40 UEFA Cup matches had been scheduled yesterday and today.
In golf, the PGA cancelled today’s starts of the World Golf Championship and two other tournaments. And in motor racing, NASCAR cancelled tomorrow’s qualifying for the New Hampshire 300.
Many will never erase the chilling image of an airplane full of people slamming into a skyscraper full of innocent office workers. They are likening it more to an improbable movie plot than real life.
But it is an image Hollywood cannot ignore. That is why at least one movie is being postponed and schedules are changing for other films and TV shows that involve terrorist plots against Americans.
Disney’s Touchstone Pictures has postponed the release of the Tim Allen comedy Big Trouble, about Miami residents who tangle with gunrunners and street thugs. One scene involves a bomb on a plane. The film has been indefinitely postponed.
Sony Pictures removed a trailer from theatres and the Internet for the adventure Spider-Man because of a scene in which a helicopter carrying fleeing robbers gets trapped in a giant spider web strung between the two towers of the Trade Center.
Sidewalks of New York, Edward Burns’s new romantic comedy from Paramount, had its Sept. 28 release postponed for several months and Warner Bros. is deciding whether to change the Oct. 5 release of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Collateral Damage, in which a terrorist bombs a L.A. skyscraper.
On TV, reports are suggesting ABC is cancelling a Saturday showing of the George Clooney movie The Peacemaker, about nuclear terrorists. And Fox will not show Independence Day — a movie in which the White House and the Empire State Building blow up –on Sunday.
Elsewhere, the Emmy Awards, scheduled for Sunday, have been postponed and the Latin Grammies cancelled.
And the biggest TV networks — ABC, CBS and NBC and Fox — cancelled all programming and commercials after the attacks for round-the-clock news coverage. They planned to stay with the story continuously at least through yesterday.
If life appeared to be slow yesterday, on Tuesday almost all of America shut down.
The White House and virtually every other federal building in the country sent workers home. The closed sign went up at Walt Disney parks in Florida and California, numerous amusement parks, office buildings and shopping malls.
Oil company headquarters in Houston, a host of banks, car manufacturers in Michigan and sections of both Greyhound and Amtrak halted operations.
Even the skies were almost empty as all civil aviation on both sides of the border — except for military and humanitarian aircraft and dozens of international flights diverted to Canada from American destinations — was grounded and airports closed.
It was as if a totally unnerved America, frozen in the headlights, was bracing for what might happen next and went home or to church or to a blood donor clinic.
Lower Manhattan, a world finance centre including both Wall Street and the Trade Center, was cordoned off. All financial markets in the United States and Canada closed.
Numerous shellshocked New Yorkers, many stumbling away from the scene of the horror, were trying to call relatives by cellphone, which almost crashed the system. And the Internet, overloaded like never before, came close to collapse.
The stunned disbelief was equally clear in Canada.
Two hours after the first aircraft had smashed into the trade centre, Toronto’s downtown core was eerily empty.
By noon, runways at Pearson International in Toronto and the Ottawa airport had fallen silent. All air traffic in the country was halted, the first time in history such a drastic and widespread order had been given.
Cancellations were growing by the minute. Toronto’s CN Tower was closed, all Toronto International Film Festival screenings were called off, as was a federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers’ meeting in Quebec City.
In Ottawa, the U.S. Embassy on Sussex Drive was emptied. The National Arts Centre cancelled all events for the day including the dance and drumming show STOMP. Hospitals were put on alert to prepare for the possible influx of injured patients being flown in from New York and Washington.
Not surprisingly, owners of shops facing the U.S. Embassy locked their doors, as did three CIBC and four Royal Bank branches. Chapters closed its Byward Market and Pinecrest stores at noon and so did the National Gallery and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
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Originally published, Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 13, 2001.
The world went frighteningly silent on Tuesday.
Yesterday, it could manage no more than a stumbling return to work in the wake of catastrophic terrorist strikes across the United States.
In Canada, airports clogged with Americans are slowly beginning to resume normal operations and stores and offices took down their closed signs.
But New York’s normal hustle was reduced to a shuffle in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center.
Commuters stayed home, businesses were shuttered, highways sealed and a huge section of downtown Manhattan closed to all but emergency traffic. Broadway shows were cancelled, museums and zoos closed and events called off.
The city’s cultural jewels, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Central Park and Bronx zoos were closed. So was the New York City Aquarium. The fall fashion shows, at which designers stage elaborate showings of their latest fashions, were called off for the week.
With the two towers of the Trade Center lying in a grotesque mountain at the heart of Manhattan’s financial world, it was no surprise Wall Street was shuttered for the second day. That made it the longest NYSE stoppage since the market closed for two days at the end of the Second World War.
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All U.S. financial institutions will remain closed today, while Canadian stock and bond markets, which kept their doors shut yesterday, are expected to be in business today. Other major markets around the globe had not closed.
In Washington, it was reported that cancellation of the September meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank is inevitable.
However, efforts were being made to return the U.S. capital to some sort of normalcy. Congress reconvened in an extra fortified Capitol building. And Pentagon workers returned to duty even though parts of the building were reportedly still smouldering following the air attack of the previous day.
World sports took the tragedy seriously. Major League Baseball called off its entire schedule for both yesterday and today. The terrorist attacks also brought professional and college sports to a standstill and it was unclear when they would resume.
Baseball’s move was the first such precedent since 1918, when the season was cut short by almost a month because of the First World War. The Montreal Expos are scheduled to play the Mets in New York tomorrow.
The NHL has yet to decide whether to go ahead with Saturday’s exhibition games. Meanwhile the New York Rangers were to have opened training camp on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden, which is close to the scene of the Manhattan attacks. Latest reports suggest it will now begin today.
In Canada, the Ontario Hockey League postponed the start of its regular season from tomorrow to Friday. Many U.S. college football games scheduled this week have been called off and the NFL is considering whether to play Sunday.
Europe’s soccer governing body postponed all its matches for the rest of this week “out of a mark of respect” for the victims of the attacks. Eight Champions League and more than 40 UEFA Cup matches had been scheduled yesterday and today.
In golf, the PGA cancelled today’s starts of the World Golf Championship and two other tournaments. And in motor racing, NASCAR cancelled tomorrow’s qualifying for the New Hampshire 300.
Many will never erase the chilling image of an airplane full of people slamming into a skyscraper full of innocent office workers. They are likening it more to an improbable movie plot than real life.
But it is an image Hollywood cannot ignore. That is why at least one movie is being postponed and schedules are changing for other films and TV shows that involve terrorist plots against Americans.
Disney’s Touchstone Pictures has postponed the release of the Tim Allen comedy Big Trouble, about Miami residents who tangle with gunrunners and street thugs. One scene involves a bomb on a plane. The film has been indefinitely postponed.
Sony Pictures removed a trailer from theatres and the Internet for the adventure Spider-Man because of a scene in which a helicopter carrying fleeing robbers gets trapped in a giant spider web strung between the two towers of the Trade Center.
Sidewalks of New York, Edward Burns’s new romantic comedy from Paramount, had its Sept. 28 release postponed for several months and Warner Bros. is deciding whether to change the Oct. 5 release of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Collateral Damage, in which a terrorist bombs a L.A. skyscraper.
On TV, reports are suggesting ABC is cancelling a Saturday showing of the George Clooney movie The Peacemaker, about nuclear terrorists. And Fox will not show Independence Day — a movie in which the White House and the Empire State Building blow up –on Sunday.
Elsewhere, the Emmy Awards, scheduled for Sunday, have been postponed and the Latin Grammies cancelled.
And the biggest TV networks — ABC, CBS and NBC and Fox — cancelled all programming and commercials after the attacks for round-the-clock news coverage. They planned to stay with the story continuously at least through yesterday.
If life appeared to be slow yesterday, on Tuesday almost all of America shut down.
The White House and virtually every other federal building in the country sent workers home. The closed sign went up at Walt Disney parks in Florida and California, numerous amusement parks, office buildings and shopping malls.
Oil company headquarters in Houston, a host of banks, car manufacturers in Michigan and sections of both Greyhound and Amtrak halted operations.
Even the skies were almost empty as all civil aviation on both sides of the border — except for military and humanitarian aircraft and dozens of international flights diverted to Canada from American destinations — was grounded and airports closed.
It was as if a totally unnerved America, frozen in the headlights, was bracing for what might happen next and went home or to church or to a blood donor clinic.
Lower Manhattan, a world finance centre including both Wall Street and the Trade Center, was cordoned off. All financial markets in the United States and Canada closed.
Numerous shellshocked New Yorkers, many stumbling away from the scene of the horror, were trying to call relatives by cellphone, which almost crashed the system. And the Internet, overloaded like never before, came close to collapse.
The stunned disbelief was equally clear in Canada.
Two hours after the first aircraft had smashed into the trade centre, Toronto’s downtown core was eerily empty.
By noon, runways at Pearson International in Toronto and the Ottawa airport had fallen silent. All air traffic in the country was halted, the first time in history such a drastic and widespread order had been given.
Cancellations were growing by the minute. Toronto’s CN Tower was closed, all Toronto International Film Festival screenings were called off, as was a federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers’ meeting in Quebec City.
In Ottawa, the U.S. Embassy on Sussex Drive was emptied. The National Arts Centre cancelled all events for the day including the dance and drumming show STOMP. Hospitals were put on alert to prepare for the possible influx of injured patients being flown in from New York and Washington.
Not surprisingly, owners of shops facing the U.S. Embassy locked their doors, as did three CIBC and four Royal Bank branches. Chapters closed its Byward Market and Pinecrest stores at noon and so did the National Gallery and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Related
- Sept. 11 anniversary: 'The grief never goes away'
- Sept. 11 Remembered: Editorial — Dealing with infamy
- Sept. 11 Remembered: 'What kind of God would let this happen?'
- Sept. 11 Remembered: Amid chaos and doom, hope dies last
- Sept. 11 Remembered: A New Jersey father weeps for his missing daughter
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