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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:14:30 -0400
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Subject: We are still ok!
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Where to start? Thank you, thank you all  so very much for your words of
encouragement and support. It means a lot to us, and we definitely feel
supported and cared for in the cartographic community.

The City is eerily quiet today. Little traffic, even in residential areas.
I guess folks are glued to their tvs. A neighbor uptown says there are jet
fighters flying over the city, but we cannot see or hear them here in
midtown.

The Library was attempting to open so the public could get in to do email,
etc. but not enough guards could get in from New Jersey and the outer
boroughs. So staff is here, but no public. We will open later if at all
possible.

Many thanks, and hugs all around, we are immensely cheered by your
messages, and also a feeling today, which we did not have yesterday, that
this is a limited event, and no more planes will attack in unknown and
different locations, as in midtown or the Empire State building, which
remains dowdily standing tall and proud.

The sun is out, the sky is blue. It is a better day.

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

[log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027
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