Bloody weekend in New York City

A little over a week ago New Yorkers were congratulating themselves over how civilized the city had suddenly become in the wake of Hurricane Irene.
“There was a community feeling,” said Sara Schwartz, 33, a Web editor for the culinary site Delish.com. “People were just stopping and talking on the sidewalk.”

If it sounds like small-town America, it kind of was. That was then, this is now.