A plane lands safely on the Hudson.

[bluedawg12]

New Yorkers run to help.

As always.

A new day is dawning. Good things are coming.

I’m feeling strong.

We are strong.

Our time has come.

A new day is dawning. Good things are coming.

“These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry” -Paul Simon

Stonewall!

[Chovexani]

1. I'm always proud of this town

I was just a little prouder today. :)

[mitchtv]

2. born and raised in Jackson Heights

Proud union member like today's heroes

[Chovexani]

3. Good times

I love to go there for cheap Indian food and bootleg Bollywood DVDs, hehe. Great area.

I'm a Brooklyn girl, born and raised. Both my parents were union nurses at the VA Hospital at Fort Hamilton. :)

[bluedawg12]

5. NYC rocks! This is a new start to a new era.

Good omen, compared to the guy who is exiting stage far right.

Yeah, all those little tug boats out there and NYFD - made me think of another time when they race towards another disaster. Always brave.

[AntiFascist]

4. Much better than the beginning of 1982...

[bluedawg12]

6. You know there is a change in the air - Dems up on Capitol Hill

Bishop Robbins, DADT on the menu for being ousted.

There is something good about the way things have been going in the last few days, as if the weight of a burdensome idiot is being lifted off of our shoulders after 8 years and the truth is being told.

[bluedawg12]

7. Optimism is in the air. I like it!

[Zuiderelle]

8. I was born and raised in Texas, but NYC is my heart's hometown.

Someday I may live there again.

[bluedawg12]

9. New York is a symbol of tragedy and resilience.

Like our nation.

Like the gay movement.

There will be set backs, but, we ain't quitting the fight for justice.

Along the way there will be good news and bad news, but we will keep going.

[Two Americas]

12. yeah

Like going home, isn't it?

I remember the first gig I ever did in New York. What a thrill seeing Manhattan from the Verazzano (sp?) bridge. Of course within minutes I have taken the wrong exit - didn't even know I was taking an exit - and there I am somewhere in Brooklyn asking people on the street for directions. Pretty soon I am on one of those insane freeways - 6 lanes of traffic, bumper to bumper all going 70 mph - WTF? lol. I finally decided that you just need to surrender to this place and go with the flow. Turn the radio dial a eight of an inch and you get yet another ethnic radio station. Pulling into the lot at the auditorium and some Lawn Guylander is just screaming at me - "ya can't park here!" lol. I ask where performers are supposed to go. "Who am I, Einstein?" lol. Coffee shops, bookstores, theaters, delis... everywhere. Greatest people anywhere.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. New Yorkers are the nicest people on the planet.

And, I live in Virginia. Having traveled there extensively with three kids, I can say for certain if I were the type to urban dwell, that's where I would go.

[bluedawg12]

11. Did you see all the little tugboats drop everything and rush to help?

It reminded me of the firemen, NYFD, rushing to their doom, moments after 9-11, in an attempt to help.

This time, tragedy was averted. It was uplifting.

It was day when good things happened, it was a day when George and Laura packed their bags, it was a day when a train was heading to Washington bearing the new President Elect and family. It was the kick off to a week-end of hope and renewal in anticipation of real change.

In a world full of misery and suffering, good things, good omens, good news in the air is always welcomed.

[Two Americas]

13. stunning

Just stunning, wasn't it? Can't get over it. Airliner in the water, people on the wings. Those boats just got out there and got it done. It doesn't seem possible.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. I did. I was actually personally vested because my brother takes

that flight several times a month. That exact flight. :scared:

[yardwork]

16. I really like the train. A very nice touch.

[yardwork]

15. Hey I love that song!

I was thinking the same thing about the New Yorkers the other day, too.

And all these years after 9/11 when the right-wingers around the country were using it as an excuse to do horrible things, the folks in New York City just kept on trucking, not afraid, just going about their business and voting for Democrats and opposing the war. I was so impressed.

[bluedawg12]

17. You know gang, when America is at it's best

when the people rise to the occasion - WE ROCK!





We rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah....

[bluedawg12]

18. Reverand Robinson, can you hear me?

I can't hear you, either.