The club has since moved to the South Bronx, not far from towering housing projects and the apartment he lived in as a child.
What would be the difference in the electric and magnetic field environment in the near vicinity of the tower and far from the tower when compared to the corresponding values with lightning striking level ground?
We worked up an appetite, and I pointed out a Chinese restaurant not far from the tower.
The Sam Wong Hotel, 615 Broadway, (415) 362-2999, fax (415) 362-1808, has 81 rooms, not far from Coit Tower, at the Chinatown-North Beach border.
He said that he was in St. Moritz on business, living in a chalet not far from the tower, but that he had only recently noticed its tilt.
Cultural afternoon Not far from Beetham Tower, Home (1) at 2 Tony Wilson Place (0161 228 7621; homemcr.org; entry free; 10am to 11pm Monday to Thursday, to midnight on Friday and Saturday, 11am to 10.30pm on Sunday) is a glimmering mothership to international theatre and arts.
Sarania and Nadia, two sixth form students from Shepherd's Bush, don't live far from Grenfell Tower, and went to "support and help out" on Wednesday.
But there is something no less striking -- if inherently less dramatic -- in the glimpses of ordinary lives coming unraveled even among people far from the towers.
But he interviewed more than 150 people to create "Generation 9/11," and at one moment, when he takes on the character of a Seattle driver who flinches when a plane passes overhead, he helps to clarify how that day affected Americans far from the towers themselves.
In 10 years, it seems we have not walked very far from those towers fall.
