Since the streets west of
Since the streets west of Broadway reopened a couple of months ago, I’ve been seeing that big hole in the sky over Ground Zero once or twice a day. There’s not much to see of Ground Zero itself—it is, after all, a hole in the ground now, mostly invisible behind construction fencing. But over the past few weeks, it was the sheer absence of the two buildings that began to weigh upon me. I would pause once or twice a week, gazing up into the sky where 50,000 people should have been working and going about their ordinary office lives. Sometimes I could almost see them there, floating hundreds of feet above me…phantoms hovering near copy machines, computers and water coolers.
