Creepy, unfortunately accurate passage from old Village Voice article.
I found this in the May 18, 1998 article by Gary Dauphin about the then-upcoming American Godzilla movie:
Cities have been destroyed this century and probably will be again, but between Independence Day and Godzilla, Devlin has to realize that the real “Big One” would be the destruction of New York. The city isn’t just a magnet for movies and immigrants of all stripes, but for nutcases and human monsters too, a place that probably tumbles nightly in the minds of terrorists and madmen from Boise to Baghdad.