Please forgive me if my posts are reading a bit weird this morning. I’m tired and I’m still in shock.
I live on 85th Street and York Avenue in Manhattan. My offices are at 28th Street and Park Avenue, well north of 14th Street, which is the cutoff south of which all businesses are closed. I’ve got so many important things to do today. I don’t know what the expectation’s going to be as far as attendence at work is concerned. It looks like a large percentage of co-workers are going to have a tough time getting to work today, so I don’t expect that a lot of people are going to be there.
I think I’m going to give it a shot. Frankly, I’m tired of sitting in my apartment and being shocked over and over again by the videos of the planes hitting, people running, towers collapsing, etc.
I think I’m going to try to get to work. My confidence in taxis, busses and subways is a little shaken, though. I’d kinda like to have a little more control over things, so I think I’ll ride my bike.
Are you other NYC Dopers going to try to make it to work?
How could we chastise you for being in shock, THespos, when we’re all pretty much the same?
I would have gone in to work today, but they told us yesterday to check the weather line. They’ve closed the office. Are main office is at 34th & 5th and my office is at 31st between 6th and 7th, but our Communications office is down at Old Slip. That may be why we’re closed. Or it could just be that a lot of the people in the company still have people unaccounted for. (A lot of people came over from Blue Cross/Blue Shield and, from what they told me, the main office was in the Trade Towers) I don’t know.
Most likely, I’ll be sitting here, staring, numb, at the television, and checking here for updates, as well as answering e-mails from family and friends, keeping them posted on anything I know.
My office is on Maiden Lane, so the answer is no. Ugh.
I do sorta wish I could go in just to do something, particularly as the folks who don’t live in Manhattan wouldn’t be able to, but I guess noone will get in today.
I’m not going in to work. Yesterday at noon we just planned on not coming in today. I couldn’t do any work today anyway.
I live in Brooklyn and commute to mid-town on the C line. One of the stops was World Trade Center. I’m sure they are doing a re-rout where the train will run on the F line from Jay St in Brooklyn to W 4th to avoind the area so I could get in but I’m taking today off.
I work at Columbia, and as of a few minutes ago the web site said we were still open unless the governmental powers that be declare otherwise. I guess they weren’t listening when the Mayor advised everyone to stay home if at all possible.
I know I don’t have to go in, and my boss, if she’s in herself, would fully understand if I bail today, but much like THespos I think I don’t want to sit here all day in my apartment. My fear today, though, is that I won’t be able to get home after work…
I also work in midtown, on the east side. The website is down. The phones are down. I have no idea whether the office is open or closed.
I also have a trip to plan for tomorrow, presumably. So yeah, I am going to straggle down to the office. I am not sure I can dress myself this morning, but we shall see. If you see me wandering the streets with that look, please call me a cab.
After the 5 hour trip home yesterday from Long Island, I am not up to facing that sort of commute today.
I’m home with my kids. Littlegirl runs to the window in fear everytime a plane flies by. She’s not so frightended for herself (she said yesterday, “I’ve never been so happy to be an insignificant nobody.”) as much as she’s frightened for her city. She and her brother watched the buildings collapse from they’re respective schools until the principal in both schools restricted students from the west side of the buildings.
Someone, Guin I think, said that she can’t believe people are upset about a building. Well, my children are upset about the people --the firemen and police are especially upsetting to them. They are supposed to save you, not die)-- but the gaping hole in the skyline frightens them.
They are 14 and those towers have always been there. This hole in the skyline is like a knife in the heart of the New York to them. It’s upsetting to me to see their faith in the strength of their city crumble right along with those buildings.
Earlier this summer, I switched jobs from downtown to a home office on Long Island. While I normally head into the city twice a week (thank God I got off the train yesterday morning and went back home!), I don’t suspect I’ll be heading in until sometime next week.
Personally, I would almost find work a diversion…in a sense a step back to routine.
I work at Rockefeller Center, and I came into work today because I’m sick and tired of looking at the TV screen by msyelf with serious cases of the shakes. But since the stock markets are closed, I’m going home early. Not that I feel like doing much of anything at all right now.
I tried giving blood yesterday, but they’re over-supplied in my type. It is truly heart-warming to see all the NYers who ran over to their nearest hospitals practically begging to be allowed to do something to help.
I realy want to go today. I’ve had long enough sitting in my apartment, and my phone is down (in an unrelated incident) so I’m feeling pretty cut off. I’ve been on vacation in Germany for the past few weeks, and I’m worried about my mouse colony. Columbia University (where I work) is supposed to be open, but I live below 14th Street, so I’m not sure I can get home again. I guess I’ll go out and ask the police on the cordon if they would let me back in.
I’m at my office at 28th and Park right now. I biked here. It was surreal coming down 2nd Avenue and seeing the streets with such low levels of traffic. I passed the entrances to the 59th Street bridge and the Midtown Tunnel. Both are closed off by cops, with city sanitation vehicles and orange dump trucks physically blocking the entrances. Unreal.
I pulled a couple of online reports for my clients’ ad campaigns, sent them out via e-mail, and then my COO came into my office and told me that we’re closing. Only six people showed up today out of a company of about 85 or so.
Roger that. I am one of a half dozen people on my entire floor who came in today. There are a few hundred employees at my firm. I won’t be here very long. With no traffic, it will take no time at all to get on a bus homeward.
I’m here and no one else is. Missed the second email from Office Services stating that insofar as Mayor Giuliani said stay home unless you have to be at work, we’re closed.
Hmmph. OK, I’m off to go donate blood. Well, as soon as I finish reading some more SDMB posts.
