Survival Scenario-New York City

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Folks,

Recent events in Times Square had me pondering a New York City survival scenario. I "searched" the survival threads, EDC threads, etc, and while there were nuggets on urban survival here and there, and a general consensus NYC would be a very bad place to be caught in a survival situation, I don't think I saw this particular scenario posed.

You are in lower Manhattan on business, or as a tourist, at noon, in the month of May. A dirty bomb is set off in Time Square or on Wall Street, and to quote TR "It would appear that a political/economic/societal collapse is imminent." There is no lead time the triggering event has just occurred, you are uninjured and have survived the initial blast, you are not carrying. As after 9/11 a significant portion of the island is covered in dust and people are walking the streets in a daze. No signs of panic yet.

For folks less familiar with NYC, Manhattan Island is about 13 miles long and 2.3 miles wide. The daytime population is about 2.87 million, 1.34 million of which are commuters. The total population of NYC is about 8.5 million. The city is designed on a grid with 12 avenues going north/south, and hundreds of streets going east west, an urban jungle of skyscrapers, stores, and apartment buildings with a large park in the center. Manhattan is bound by the Hudson River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, and East River to the east. There are two major subway systems, four tunnels, eight bridges , and two ferries, one at the southern tip and the other midtown west. Unless you have a helicopter (3 helipads) or can really swim, no other exits.

What is your plan? What do you do? How do you prioritize for this environment? Where do you go? How do you do this? Would you EDC anything extra on your person if ever in NYC?