1. Two blocks may seem like nothing to a non-New Yorker. But anyone who lives or works in Manhattan knows that this distance can be significant. Two blocks is equivalent to several miles in other cities or in the suburbs. Your dry cleaner moves two blocks, and it’s so long, pal. He’ll never see you again. He might as well have relocated to Yonkers.
    – Clyde Haberman, Ground Zero: Its Boundaries Are Elastic.

    The first time I noticed walking past the Park51 location, “two city blocks and a dogleg from ground zero” I thought “it’s all the way up here? BFD.”

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