They also have them in DC, which would probably be equaly useless. I think it's more that people want to think there is a chance and gov people want to be seen as doing something regardless of the actual facts.
When they started building them, there was a chance that they wouldn't be completely useless. It was assumed that some A-bombs would still be used. If only one bomber got through, then a proportion of Manhattan would not have been levelled. Admittedly, the chances of surviving more than a month were essentially zip, but apparently they weren't figuring on blast and heat killing everyone in the City.
Mmm, Washington Square Park... I can't tell you how many countless hours of my life have been spent there. My dad's office is about two blocks away, so when I was younger and my dad's fellow professor, John, would bring his son Bram along and we would get too rambunctious, either Dad or John (or sometimes Catherine, another professor) would bring us to the park and let us run around for a couple of hours. We played mostly on the jungle gym (although I clocked my chin on the rainbow arch once and never went on it again), and we collected pieces of mica, thinking they were precious minerals.
In later years I took to heading there in nice weather over the summer when I went in to Dad's office with him. He'd give me $10 to go to Barned & Noble and buy a new book, and then I'd just sit in the park and people watch and whatnot.
Well, yeah... The hole entire concept of "people watching" came from sitting in Washington Square Park (almost specifically while sitting on the side of the fountain, but benches are acceptable).
They're everywhere - you just need to look carefully for the signs. The thing is, even New Yorkers don't really know where the fallout shelters are because they're kind of, well, moot... A number of them are in the basements of public schools, especially the ones more recently built. There aren't many in midtown, which is where most tourists go, but I lived in the West Village and our area and the Financial District and whatnot were rife with shelters.
We had a Vampire: the Masquerade game in high school, where Prince William County (in VA, near DC) had been destroyed by a nuclear missile that "missed" DC, and was now a barren wasteland. Of course, the missile hadn't actually missed, it had quite effectively taken out some secret cabal of werewolves or something.
I think Kellie just really disliked Prince William ^_^. It was where I lived, and it was quite inconveniently far away from everything else.
Nothing specific. He was just kinda discretely like, "hey man, you need anything?". Of course, e2 tells me Washington Square is famous for pot dealers.
Fascinating. Wikipedia isn't specific as to which drugs, though it mentions that the drug dealers are well-known enough that they're often mentioned in modern fictional accounts.
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In later years I took to heading there in nice weather over the summer when I went in to Dad's office with him. He'd give me $10 to go to Barned & Noble and buy a new book, and then I'd just sit in the park and people watch and whatnot.
Ahh, memories.
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'Segmentation fault (core dumped).'
That confused me thoroughly for several minutes.
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We had a Vampire: the Masquerade game in high school, where Prince William County (in VA, near DC) had been destroyed by a nuclear missile that "missed" DC, and was now a barren wasteland. Of course, the missile hadn't actually missed, it had quite effectively taken out some secret cabal of werewolves or something.
I think Kellie just really disliked Prince William ^_^. It was where I lived, and it was quite inconveniently far away from everything else.
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