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BJ came today.\u00a0 She’s a New Yorker and has been since she attended Julliard many years ago.\u00a0 Over lunch today Mark asked her about 9\/11.<\/p>\n
She told her story and Schecky’s.\u00a0 She was in New Jersey and saw the burning building across the grasslands.\u00a0 At first she and her friends thought it was an accident.\u00a0 Then the news became clear.\u00a0 Schecky was at home at the Beacon Hotel, 74th and Broadway.\u00a0 He’d been asleep, woke up, turned on the TV and thought the scenes he saw were a strange disaster movie.\u00a0 As he clicked the channels, it was the same movie on all of them.\u00a0 Relatives had left messages on his answering machine, “Are you ok?”\u00a0 He thought, why wouldn’t I be?<\/p>\n
BJ, who had come to New Jersey by train, found a fellow musician with a car and the two of them spent seven hours trying to get her back to Manhattan, eventually driving far to the north to the Tappan Zee bridge and finding a back way into the Bronx.\u00a0 Her friend lived in Brooklyn and BJ took a subway back.<\/p>\n
Over the next six months BJ said folks looked each other in the eyes on the streets and in the subways, trying to connect.\u00a0 She rode a bike in Central Park, she had begun training for a race, and she said the atmosphere there was extraordinary.\u00a0 Like the end of the world might be coming and folks needed to be out with other people.<\/p>\n
She spoke of playing music at St. Paul’s Chapel, where many of the rescue workers came for rest and food, part of a volunteer effort by the city’s musicians.\u00a0 She was also angry that no monument was in place and that so little work had been done on the buildings that would replace the Twin Towers.<\/p>\n
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