Stories tagged with "rockland county"
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Rockland County, NY: Staten Island Refugees and Me.

After 9/11, some people from our Staten Island office are temporarily transferred to our office, as the phone system there ha…
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Rockland County, NY: Aftermaths and Anniversaries I

The next several weeks, the local paper releases names of people who died that day. I morbidly scan the first few days for na…
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Rockland County, NY: Aftermaths and Anniversaries II

The second anniversary is another solemn memorial to those lost, but it’s smaller in scale. The third, forth, and fifth years…
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Rockland County, NY: The Odyssey

My office closes at 10:30, and I meet with my parents. Together we try to contact my aunt, but phone lines are still overload…
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Rockland County, NY: The Confusion

We’re half an hour north of the city, but news comes to us in bits and pieces. We don’t get good radio reception in our offic…