Here’s a view of the setting sun reflecting off the Empire State Building this evening, as seen from the new Jobs & the City webcam at my office:

Here’s one from 35 minutes later, as night fell:

And here are some cool pictures that I took at the Canal Street subway station — the station right near my office — this afternoon. The bottom two pictures were taken with my wide-angle lens.

The Red Sox are leading the Yankees, 4-0, at the midway point of the second inning. Hurrah! With Pedro Martinez on the mound, hopefully that lead will hold! It would be great for the Sox to have momentum going into tomorrow’s game, because…

Tomorrow afternoon, I’m going to Yankee Stadium for the second time in my life. (The first time, the Yanks beat the Sox 6-5 on a bottom-of-the-ninth, two-out home run by Mel Hall.) I’m going with fellow Boston fan Scott from work, and I plan to wear Red Sox colors in the form of a red American flag shirt — that way, I can support my team in the Bronx without essentially wearing a shirt that says “BEAT ME UP.” :)

Hurricane Fabian made a direct hit on Bermuda this afternoon. Now it’s moving rapidly away, speeding out to sea. The bad weather should be over within a few hours, and presumably then the damage reports will begin to trickle in. Hopefully they won’t be too bad.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the tropics, it’s raining in northern Florida because of Tropical Storm Henri. No comment from French Guy Henri. :)

I just set up a webcam at my office showing the beautiful view of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building from the north side of the building. Eventually it will be fully integrated into the Jobs & the City website, but it’s not yet — so just click here and check it out!

From the National Hurricane Center (sorry for the all caps)…

THE BERMUDA WEATHER SERVICE JUST RELAYED AN UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATION OF 1-MINUTE SUSTAINED WIND OF 117 MPH…189 KM/HR…WITH A GUST TO 127 MPH…204 KM/HR…REGISTERED AT BERMUDA HARBOR RADIO.

The National Hurricane Center does not share my previously stated optimism about Hurricane Fabian’s recurvature. They seem to think that its position due south of Bermuda and its motion toward due north means exactly what you’d think it means: “Fabian is now expected to pass over or near Bermuda in about 24 hours or so,” the 11:00 PM discussion states. Well, sh*t.

Henri and Remi, the two French guys staying in the apartment this week and next, wanted to watch my “CNN Remembers” documentary video about 9/11 this evening, so we did. Naturally, one of the scenes it showed was the famous video by Jules and Gedeon Naudet of the first plane hitting the first tower, the only video in existence of that initial impact.

I’ve seen that clip plenty of times before — but when I watched it tonight, it was like seeing it with new eyes. With a sudden jolt in my stomach, I recognized the very spot where the cameraman was standing: on Church Street in Tribeca, about two blocks north of where I now work. I recognized it because of the AT&T building on the right-hand side of the screen — the large, distinctive building right next to the subway exit that I emerge from every morning.

This page confirms: the video was shot at the corner of Church and Lispenard, two and a half blocks north of the front entrance of my workplace. If I were to watch the video closely, I would probably be able to spot the 18-story building where I work. It would be on the left-hand side of the screen for a split second before the cameraman zooms in on the plane impact.

What struck me immediately about the video was how immense the Twin Towers appeared from that location. Of course I should have realized this, but somehow, looking south from my office to the vacant spot where the WTC once stood, I didn’t picture them as that big, that close by. But they were close — they practically filled the whole sky.

It must have been an incredible view from my office before 9/11 — and a horrible view on 9/11.

Wow.