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Originally Posted by Koir
Spontaneous parties in front of the White House, in Times Square, and at Ground Zero. The most notable reaction happened during a New York Mets/Philadelphia Phillies baseball game when the spectators got the news on their Blackberries and started chanting. As a side note, that game went 14 innings and took five hours.
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You have to remember that New York City and Washington, D.C. were especially traumatized by the attacks, because they were direct targets. New York City suffered more than anyone else: in one morning it lost some 3000 of its people, a large number of its emergency workers, and one of its most important landmarks. No one there could fail to miss the event as it was happening, and it ended with many thousands more running in terror from a choking avalanche of debris.
While the baseball game you mentioned was in Philadelphia rather than New York, there had to be a whole bunch of New Yorkers there.