New Yorker here:
It's Thanksgiving, the holiday decorations come out of storage all over the city. Rockefeller Center puts up the tree. We tend to get a lot of increased tourism and foot traffic during the holidays which logically means were at higher risk.
Military presence has been commonplace during the holidays or major events in NYC for as long as I can remember.
Military presence has been commonplace during the holidays or major events in NYC for as long as I can remember.
Gonna disagree there, but I'm probably a bit older. I remember going to several parades, even the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade once or twice, and there was police presence, but I wouldn't even say any more than any other large parade.
As far as military presence at major events - that's post 9/11.
It may be twenty years strong, but I'll be damned if I will ever refer to it as "normal."
To be clear, as far as I can remember is roughly 9/11. I was just a kid then. I know it wasn’t normal before that. Personally? With resources in the state/city stretched so thin on immigration I don’t see it as such a bad thing. But I suppose that me feeling that means agenda achieved. Do you feel less safe as a New Yorker with their presence?
I don't feel safer, nor do I feel unsafe. Their presence to me doesn't really matter. My own opinion is it's theater. Maybe serves as a deterrent to some nobody that may consider doing something stupid.
The last "major" foreign attack in NYC before 9/11 was at WTC in '93. We went that time without any visible military presence.
I was a teenager riding the subway to school every day from the Rockaways to the Bronx. At no time did I feel unsafe, was I worried about another attack. I'd think it safe to say I wasn't alone, we moved on.
No military presence. No NYPD walking around the streets with automatic rifles. No terror alert levels, no reminder on the news every night that we have to remain vigilant. No "See Something Say Something" every where you go. Oh, and it was supposedly the same group involved in both attacks.
There was a small explosive set off several years ago in the passageway at the Times Square subway station. The police and military presence did nothing to prevent it.
If someone or some group is determined, it's going to happen. At least that's my view, military presence or not.
New Yorker here: It's Thanksgiving, the holiday decorations come out of storage all over the city. Rockefeller Center puts up the tree. We tend to get a lot of increased tourism and foot traffic during the holidays which logically means were at higher risk. Military presence has been commonplace during the holidays or major events in NYC for as long as I can remember.
Addendum, when they refer to garbage can bombs, I'm pretty certain they are referring to the 2016 events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_New_York_and_New_Jersey_bombings Otherwise things have (thank god) been relatively quiet here.
There were a few incidents before that as well, and even pressure cooker bombs.
https://dmna.ny.gov/press/NY_JTFES_Fact_Sheet.pdf
Yup, Standard National Guard presence based out of Fort Hamiltion in Brooklyn.
New Yorker here, too.
Gonna disagree there, but I'm probably a bit older. I remember going to several parades, even the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade once or twice, and there was police presence, but I wouldn't even say any more than any other large parade.
As far as military presence at major events - that's post 9/11.
It may be twenty years strong, but I'll be damned if I will ever refer to it as "normal."
To be clear, as far as I can remember is roughly 9/11. I was just a kid then. I know it wasn’t normal before that. Personally? With resources in the state/city stretched so thin on immigration I don’t see it as such a bad thing. But I suppose that me feeling that means agenda achieved. Do you feel less safe as a New Yorker with their presence?
I don't feel safer, nor do I feel unsafe. Their presence to me doesn't really matter. My own opinion is it's theater. Maybe serves as a deterrent to some nobody that may consider doing something stupid.
The last "major" foreign attack in NYC before 9/11 was at WTC in '93. We went that time without any visible military presence.
I was a teenager riding the subway to school every day from the Rockaways to the Bronx. At no time did I feel unsafe, was I worried about another attack. I'd think it safe to say I wasn't alone, we moved on.
No military presence. No NYPD walking around the streets with automatic rifles. No terror alert levels, no reminder on the news every night that we have to remain vigilant. No "See Something Say Something" every where you go. Oh, and it was supposedly the same group involved in both attacks.
There was a small explosive set off several years ago in the passageway at the Times Square subway station. The police and military presence did nothing to prevent it.
If someone or some group is determined, it's going to happen. At least that's my view, military presence or not.