These movies were filmed in Brooklyn, NY, on the morning and afternoon of September 11, 2001. The destruction of the World Trade Center was plainly visible, 5 3/4 miles in the distance, from the Belt Parkway which hugs the shoreline of Brooklyn next to the Narrows Straits which separates Brooklyn from Staten Island.
Just the same old hum-drum things. The neighborhood, going to work, commuting, taking a walk, going to school, going to church, just the same things everybody does; just done in New York City.
After the New York Giants upset victory in Super Bowl XLII, the city celebrated the new champions with a ticker-tape parade up Broadway through the "Canyon of Heroes."