Video: Locals React To News Of bin Laden's Death

Inevitably, the reactions of New Yorkers to the death of Osama bin Laden have been varied. There are those who are pleased but wary, those who feel relief that friends and relatives more than nine years dead can be at peace. There are doubters and conspiracy theorists, and those who say their daily lives are unaffected.

The one constant voiced by almost universally by New Yorkers Monday morning was a sense that a too-long period of American history had finally come to a close.