NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher

be_excellent_to_each_other, 5 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

That looks to be a sausage, egg, and cheese Croissan'wich they are advertising for 99 cents, and another concrete example of the massive corporate greed of today:

(Or are we all making 4x today what we were in 2001 for the same jobs? That's a rhetorical question, we are not.)

Edit: 1 dollar from 2001 is 1.78 today. https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2001?amount=1

PugJesus, 5 months ago

Inflation calculator says it should be $1.72 to maintain pace with inflation since 2001.

Dagwood222, 5 months ago

Context time.

Actual Police Headquarters at One Police Plaza is/was about a mile away from Ground Zero. The store shown was being used as the onsite HQ for the rescue/recovery effort.

felykiosa, 5 months ago

You know that its old when there is an ad for a 99 cent’s burger