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2006-09-11

Today is the 5th anniversary of 9/11 and I went to Dizzies Finer Diner, which is restaurant ont he corner near my home on 9th street in Park Slope. It was where I was until about 9:50 AM on 9/11/01 and where someone said as I was leaving that "a plane had hit the World Trade Center." My story of that day is in the archive so there is no need to repeat it. My friend Anselmo, who works at Dizzies, wanted to do something special for today and I said I would bring bring in on my laptop computer some of the 1,000 images I took of the neighborhood in response to 9/11. Some of them are also in the digital archive. Six months after the event I revisited the same sites, and I have been retracing my steps through the neighbohrood every years since 9/11. Today I have a collection of many thousand images of the ways the neighbohrood residents and business people responded and how some of those responses fade and reappear on days like today. At about 7:30 AM I put the laptop on my table near the cash register and turned on the sldie slide and let it run conitnuously until about 9:05. Many people came over and looked. A few of them thanked me for sharing them. I wonder what people will say in another five years when I do it again. All the best, Jerry Krase