The Fortification of New York City: Post-9/11 Memorialization and the Localization of the War on Terror

Abstract

This chapter studies New York’s post-9/11 agency. In the wake of the terrorist attacks, our analysis shows how New York went through three stages—woundedness, resilience, and arrogance—that have shaped its personality in powerful ways. After nearly a decade of organizational disputation about how to remember, the New York Police Department emerged as the dominant actor in the shaping of New York’s post-9/11 character as a twenty-first-century police city.