Most New Yorkers still fear another attack

WASHINGTON: Five years after the September 11 attacks, two-thirds of New Yorkers say they are still very concerned about another attack on the city, according to a New York Times-CBS News poll released on Wednesday.   

Sixty-nine percent of those polled in New York said they were very concerned about another attack, down only slightly from 74 percent in October 2001, The New York Times said.   

In a poll of 838 adults, nearly one-third of New Yorkers said they thought about September 11 every day, the newspaper said.   

Nearly one-third of the respondents said they had not gone back to pre-September 11 routines and were still dealing with changes caused by the attacks that killed 2,759 people in the destruction of the World Trade Center.   

A separate New York Times-CBS News national poll of 1,206 adults found fears of another attack seemed less acute and personal outside New York, the newspaper said.   

Only 22 percent in the national poll said they were still very concerned about an attack in their hometowns, down from 39 percent five years ago, while 75 percent said daily life had largely returned to normal, the New York Times said.   

Seventy-two percent of New Yorkers said the government could do more to protect the United States from attacks, compared with 58 percent in the national poll, the article said.   

Four in 10 New Yorkers polled said they thought the threat of terrorism had increased since 2001 and 81 percent said they thought Americans would always have to live with the threat, the newspaper reported.   

The telephone polls were conducted in August and each had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.