While the benefits amount to something small for cities... they've largely been the ones hit the hardest. NYC residents are more or less being ignored in these stimulus packages.
This is such an impressively grotesque admission, but it leads me to one question: why do people willing to throw away retail workers, home health care workers, cashiers, and janitors (you know, the most commonly held jobs in NYC) to the plague, care about 9/11? Shouldn't you and others like yourself have cheered it on? They are "people in NYC," after all.
What? The income distribution of NYC roughly matches that of the USA as a whole. Do you wish ill on the entire USA because a small percentage of Americans have acted unfairly?