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Photograph by Jonno Rattman for The New Yorker
A man waiting on West Street near Vesey Street. He hoped to catch a glimpse of Pope Francis’s arrival at the 9/11 memorial.
Pope Francis’s recently concluded visit to New York felt, at times, like the famous encounter between the Prophet Elijah and God, on Mount Horeb: “And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord.” There were traffic jams along Madison Avenue, delays on the C train, Citi Bike deactivations in midtown, throngs of twenty thousand around Madison Square Garden and eighty thousand in Central Park, Francis-themed T-shirts for sale outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and other excitements. The photographer Jonno Rattman recorded some of the commotion, along with more sombre scenes at the 9/11 memorial museum, as the Pope passed by.
