I'm perfectly okay w/ it....I flew into NY a few days before we became on the High Orange alert.....We came back when the Orange was in full effect; everything seemed pretty safe to me.
Speaking of which, it was kind of crazy. It was my first time in NY. We wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and what not, but a lot of that stuff has closed since 9/11, which is understandable. So we took the Staten Island Ferry across the NY Harbor. It was kind of crazy to see, since we were in the High alert, the coast guard had boats all over the harbor...and you could see them out there w/ their snipers. Scary stuff!