Monthly Archives: October 2001
The last word
Written on October 12, 2001 at 5:23 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
New York is a village. I sometimes see a customer discover at a cash register that he or she doesn’t have enough money for a purchase, promise to pay later, […] More
Access to information
Written on October 10, 2001 at 3:03 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
In this new era of photo-ID requests, one of the forms in my wallet is a reader identification card from the Library of Congress. It has a color photo, a […] More
Like us, they all had names
Written on October 9, 2001 at 7:14 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
A few years ago, I was setting up a live international press conference at a theater where I often work. As usual, I was wearing a T-shirt, pepper-pattern pants, and […] More
Eight million stories
Written on October 8, 2001 at 3:17 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
As the announcer would say at the end of each episode of the old TV series, “There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” And, because any two New […] More
Happenstance
Written on October 7, 2001 at 6:21 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
I don’t know what’s going on in cities in Afghanistan right now. I know that the U.S. and Britain attacked today. I know what happened in New York when we […] More
One month
Written on October 7, 2001 at 9:37 am, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
I intended to visit “ground zero” today, but I didn’t make it. It is now hot — WAY above normal for this time of year. But it is not as […] More
Who supports terrorism?
Written on October 6, 2001 at 5:09 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
It’s getting cold again in New York. Tomorrow could be as cold as December 30, 1999, the day we were setting up for the huge Times Square 2000 celebration. Back […] More
Remembrance
Written on October 5, 2001 at 5:09 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
There has been a lot of heroic effort lately in New York. You’ve heard, of course, about the firefighters, police, emergency medical personnel, ironworkers, and others involved in the rescue […] More
Reasonable doubt
Written on October 4, 2001 at 4:58 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
Many New Yorkers in lower Manhattan are lucky this week. The odor from the World Trade Center site has been replaced, or at least augmented, by the sweet smells of […] More
Cousins
Written on October 3, 2001 at 8:46 am, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
As we were heading home from the TV truck late last night, near the Lincoln Center firehouse memorials we passed a man walking a very large horse down the sidewalk. […] More