#New York City

[triflingthing]

Winter on the High Line, New York City

[yodaprod]

Manhattan, New York City, during the blizzard of January 1996

[whereserpentswalk]

Ok. So it's cannon that Behemoth's third attack was on New York. This isn't a plot hole, but there is a lot we don't know about it. And it was almost certainly a major turning point, the first city in the global north to face an endbringer attack. Yes the cape death count had been high before, but Behemoth's previous attacks were in Iran and Brazil, places where the average American doesn't give thought to.

Now, the reason why I'm making this post is mostly because I've lived in NYC my entire life, so it's interesting to speculate on what the one confirmed enbringer attack was like. I know enough about New York to know what a Behemoth attack on here might be like. If anyone else lives somewhere with a confirmed enbringer attack that isn't elaborated on I'd love to see your theories on what happened.

So, this is what I think the attack was like:

First off. We have cannon information on Earth Bet's New York during Weaver/Skitter's career. So we get an idea of how it effected the city. We know that New York still is the most populated city in America, and we know that it's still the center of a lot of the American economy. That is to say; we know that whatever Behemoth did it didn't completely destroy New York, neither as a population center or an economic center. So my theory for what the attack was like has to take into account that this is something that the city bounced back from by 2011.

We also know that Behemoth (and the enbringers as a whole) gain new tactics over time. This is his third attack, he's not going to be as advanced as he was when we see him during his final attack on New Delhi. We also know what enbringers want: to cause devastation upon humanity and to act as a worthy foe for capes. He's not a rampaging monster who doesn't know where he's going, and he's not a millitary weapon trying to destroy the tactically optimal target. He has a plan, but it's a plan that's based on fighting capes and causing terror.

So I don't think Behemoth emerged in Manhattan. We'd see more of its effects on the city if he did. And more importantly, it's an island, and he's the land based enbringer. He might be able to emerge on a small island is he really wants to, but this is his third attack. However, there is a part of New York that's attached to the mainland, and that's the Bronx, and that's a much better target for him for several reasons, not just the land thing.

Now, the Bronx, being the only mainland borough of NYC, has suburbs right next to it (also, to make some of what I say make sense later, I should probably clarify that the Bonx is NYC's northern edge). The Bronx is also New York's poorest and highest crime borough, and the suburbs just to the north of it are some of the richest suburbs in the state. You basically have a low income urban area, and a high income suburban area right next to eachother. This is important to what I think Behemoth's attack did, he knows about humans, and he's actively designing his attack around class division, and how humans react when people of different classes die.

So, on March 26th, 1994, nearly a year after Behemoth attacked São Paulo, Behemoth emerges just north of NYC, somewhere around Yonkers. Americans dismissed his earlier attacks on Brazil and Iran as third world problems, and now he's just emerged in a wealthy suburb. He's emerged on a Saturday when most people are in their homes getting a higher kill count then he otherwise would. If anyone does work weekends they likely lose their spouse and children in the attack. This is probably the first time the enbringers are really taken seriously by the American public.

He then moves downward ti the city proper, attacking the Bronx. Legend is probably the first cape he's up agaisnt, but others quickly join in. Either this is the first time the enbringer truce is really utilized, and we get villains in the enbringer fight for the first time, or it isn't a thing yet and we get villains profiting off of the endbringer fight. Behemoth makes it pretty far into the Bronx, possibly crossing the Harlem river, but the northern tip of Manhattan is similar enough to the Bronx that the difference isn't that important for the scope of this theory. Most of the Bronx and northern Manhattan is evacuated by the time he gets there, possibly with cold war era fallout shelters and subway stations being used in place of the shelters that would later be built. There's a lower death count in the Bronx, but he's going for property destruction here more then anything, especially as the capes don't have all that much knowledge as to how to minimize dammage. Eventually Behemoth is fought off, possibly being dunked in the Hudson or East River (if so that's probably where the High Priest shard got the idea for Leviathan).

Now the more important part is the after effects:

On Yonkers; the suburbs in that area just don't exist anymore, it's just a massive black pit north of the city. The exact demographic of Americans that Americans tend to mourn died, and the economy is hurt by the fact that the only way to access New York is either by water or through Jersey.

On the Bronx or Northern Manhattan the effects are far longer lasting. The best comparison I can think of is post leviathan Brockton Bay. Countless of the poorest in the city have lost their homes and business. Many who have nowhere to go end up homeless, and many who don't have work after the attack turn to crime. Villains who used to have territory in the effected areas move elsewhere in the city, likely ending up intruding on either previously safe areas, or areas that other villains have claimed, so there's a lot of gang wars in certain areas of the city. There's also a lot of places in the Bronx and/or Northern Manhattan that don't have things like water or power, and/or are effected by Behemoth's ash and radiation. There's probably certain neighborhoods that are considered uninhabitable that are resettled anyway that have residents die due to the environmental effects. And other neighborhoods that are abandoned due to the destruction but that fill with squatters.

Basically in conclusion Behemoth's effect on the Bronx is similar to that of Robert Moses.

[maritamorgado]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 09: Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan attend the AMC Networks 2025 upfront at Spring Studios on April 09, 2025 in New York City (Photo by Stephen Lovekin)

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Things aren't going well for the Mean Girl of Montecito. It seems I hit a nerve posting Memories of Rachel Meghan Markle's inflatable Magical Moonbump. We watched in real time as it appeared & disappeared throughout her February 2019 visit to the NYC Polo Bar, and then two (2) days later in Morocco for the BRF. Just H exclaimed during an interview, "is it mine!?!?!?!" These images and memories have given her a bad case of narcissistic rage.😡

@grannycrowley thanks for sharing.

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[federer7]

New York City. 1971

Photo by Helen Levitt

[evilhorse]

Marvel Universe Cards Series I 110: Daredevil vs. The Punisher

[emaadsidiki]

Rolls-Royce 👻 NYIAS

[tetrachromacy-photos]

RED VOX // 4.11.25 / BAKER FALLS NYC

[zombifiedgirl]

[yodaprod]

Prospect Ave. & E. 149th St., Bronx, (1989 & 1992)

It's a Popeye nowdays

[windandwater]

#i also keep my windows open for the same reason #op between your open window and my open window there is some portion of new york city #in a way we are in the same room together right now #and the world keeps turning

--@dreamofbecoming

thank you.

my windows are open too.

was in the middle of a doomscroll about whether it's time to leave the US. whether I can and what it would take. and I can't leave my mom right now but you know. you get it.

anyway in the middle of this I closed all my tabs and decided I needed to run out for milk so I can eat. anything that's available to eat. in this house. it all needs milk.

only thing open at 1 am is bodegas. fine. they have milk. don't typically run out to the bodega at 1 am for milk but you know.

turned out to be. the best idea I've ever had.

new york city is wide awake.

I always say that the reason I like living in cities is I feel safer knowing the world keeps turning outside my window. there's sirens going off as I'm writing this. I need that. it doesn't scare me, it makes me feel like I can relax, because someone else has got it.

there's a garbage truck out there with a garbage guy standing outside it yelling at the driver to be heard over the noise. there's a guy coming up the street smoking and blasting music on his phone. the bodega is full of teens who politely held the door, and a guy getting a sandwich who politely moved out of the way. the bodega guys are also wide awake.

my building is dead silent but no one's going to give a shit if I'm coming and going. sirens keep going up and down the street.

I don't know what's going to happen. to me. to us. to anyone.

but what a relief that the world is still turning

I think in the end the answer is the same as it's always been, that they will have to drag me out of new york city kicking and scratching.

I think they will come for us all. I don't know what I can do about it.

I think when you love something sometimes you have to be someone who fights to keep it. I don't know what that means in practice but I think it's true anyway.

I don't know if I will always feel this way but I think at 1 am when it's cold and dark in new york city and it's still awake as it's ever been, I think I can believe it, a little.

[rorygilmre]

via NYPost: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to launch a “big f–king operation” across sanctuary cities — including Chicago and New York — immediately after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources told The Post.

Starting Jan. 21, multi-day “ground operations” will be launched across cities that have served as safe havens for migrants because the local authorities do not cooperate with the federal government when it comes to immigration issues, sources said.

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