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Candlelight vigil, Greenwich and Harrison streets, Sept. 14, 2001

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A NOTE TO OUR READERS The memories come flooding back on this 10th anniversary of the attacks. But to many of us who have been part of Downtown over the years, Sept. 11 was not only that terrible day and the heroic efforts at recovery. It was weeks and months of bad air and struggling businesses, of displaced neighbors and shuttered schools. We were neighborhoods heavy with the sights and smells of destruction, yet somehow lifted by a longing to return to that sweet but elusive condition: Everyday life. Even as normality returned years ago, Sept. 11 has stayed with many of us, whether in a sense of resilience or loss or a desire to give back. We think of the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), formed in the aftermath of that disaster that were available to help frightened seniors last month during Hurricane Irene. Or the fight to save the grand staircase in the Winter Garden, rebuilt after Sept. 11 only to be slated for destruction this year as part of a World Financial Center overhaul. “The stairs just seem like a tribute to everything that happened that day,” said Justine Cuccia, the Battery Park City resident whose petition campaign changed the corporate mind of owner Brookfield Properties. “It’s a piece of something that makes me feel better when I walk by.” There are infinite “pieces” of Sept. 11, 2001, those personal reminders that keep coming back. In this special issue of the Trib, we revisit just a few of them and hope, whether you have lived here these past 10 years or just arrived, that they will be meaningful to you, too. Downtown’s decade of 9/11, we believe, is a heritage shared by all. Carl Glassman, Editor The Tribeca Trib

THE CONTRIBUTORS The articles in this issue are based on the reporting over the years by Trib staffers and freelancers, including Ronald Drenger, Barry Owens, Andrea Appleton, Etta Sanders, Nick Pinto, Matt Dunning, Jessica Terrell, April Koral and Carl Glassman. The publishers wish to express a special note of gratitude and remembrance for the work of Etta Sanders, who reported on World Trade Center-related issues from 2003 until, bravely, the very week of her death in 2007. Her superb contributions to the Trib helped, in a big way, to make this issue possible.

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FIVE STORIES OF 9/11 No recounting of experiences on Sept. 11 can do justice to the thousands of extraordinary personal stories of that day. Below are just a few, as told to the Trib during the week of Sept. 11.

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Pandemonium at West Broadway and Reade Street as the south tower comes down.

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Engine 7 and Ladder 1 on Duane Street were among the first responders to the World Trade Center. Miraculously, they did not lose a man. This is their story, told to the Trib three days later. At 9 a.m., Engine 7 and Ladder 1 from Duane Street sped down to the World Trade Center. Engine 7’s captain, Peter Tardio, was confident. After the initial fireball, the blaze looked manageable, he thought. It would be a tough job, but they would walk up 80 flights, if necessary, and tackle it. Riding in the Ladder 1 truck, Damian Van Cleaf also believed they could put out the skyscraper blaze. His buddy, Nicky, yelled to him: “This is terrorism. They’re attacking us.” “Would you relax?” Van Cleaf told him. “It’s an accident.” The two rigs were among the first to reach the World Trade Center; black smoke billowed from the tower. As they made their way up the stairs, workers trying to escape passed them. “I kept asking people, ‘Is there any fire on your floor?’” Tardio recalled. “We didn’t know what floor the fire was on.” Big chunks of aluminum and steel were crashing onto the street. When the second plane hit Tower 2, more wreckage rained down. Then people began to jump from the upper floors. Inside the tower, it was slow going. Each man carried 75 to 100 pounds of equipment. It took an hour to reach the 30th floor. As they went, they checked every floor; all were vacant. Then Tower 1 shook. “It was a rumbling like I had never heard before,” Van Cleaf said. “We heard, ‘Urgent, urgent, urgent! Vacate! Vacate!’” They would have about 12 minutes to get out. Most of the men still didn’t know that Tower 2 had fallen. But when they got outside, they saw the rubble—and their rigs flattened. Thinking that his two comrades had been crushed, Van Cleaf said a prayer and ran. The others did the same. Seconds later, Tower 1 disintegrated. “Why am I here?” asked Tardio of Engine 7, three nights later. “Luck? Fate? Why am I alive? We all have feelings of guilt. I think about it a lot.”

‘TO: MOM, FROM: 1 WTC’

Clockwise, from top left: It is Primary Day, and outside the polling place at 310 Greenwich Street, people react to the burning towers; as the north tower collapses, a stunned couple rushes up Hudson Street; near 310 Greenwich Street, Ann Coleman and Sam Hao recoil at the sight of the explosion at the south tower.

M.J. Bettenhausen, a Tribeca resident, began volunteering at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. An injury she later sustained while volunteering prevented her from continuing. In the afternoon and through the night, M. J. Bettenhausen gave eyewashes to firefighters and police affected by the thick dust, and she helped treat minor injuries among rescue workers. On day two, she joined volunteers CONTINUED ON PAGE

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The World Trade Center devastation, as seen from Church and Fulton streets. As a result of the attack, 2,868 people died, 13.4 million square feet of buildings were destroyed, including six WTC buildings, the Marriott Hotel, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, two Con Ed substations and the PATH station. Another 16.3 million square feet of properties were heavily damaged.

Clockwise from top: Crossing Broadway at Fulton Street, a man is helped following the collapse of the towers; firefighters look through the rubble of what is left of the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center; one of 9,000 displaced Battery Park City residents stands with a few belongings on the plaza near the North Cove.

working on the mound of rubble near the makeshift morgue. “I was bringing in ice, which they were using to keep the bodies fresh,” she said. “Then I was helping pass bags from the rubble. There were body parts in the bags. Pieces of hair.” In the debris, she found a partially burned note. “It looked like a letter a woman wrote to her mom. It was on one of those phone message pads. She filled it in: ‘To: Mom. From: 1 WTC.’ It said something like, ‘I’m waiting to be evacuated. I’m probably going to hand this to you myself. We’re very calm. Don’t worry about me. I love you. But if I don’t make it, take care of’—it looked like a pet’s name.” Soon after she found the note, there was a warning that another building might collapse. “Suddenly people said, ‘Go! Go! Go! Run! Run! Run!’ and people started running,” Bettenhausen said. “I ran with everyone else. “[When I stopped] I realized that I had lost the letter. I had it in a box, with saline solution for the eyewashes. “I had been okay until then, but then I lost it. Even if that woman didn’t make it out, it would have been comforting to her mother, to know that she was calm and had written the note. “My legs were wobbling, so I sat down. I was mad. I felt like I had given in by running.”

A PHOTO, AND SURVIVAL Gulnara Samoilova, a fine art photographer, was a photo retoucher for the Associated Press and a Southbridge Towers resident on Sept. 11. Gulnara Samoilova arrived at Fulton

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and Church Street as the injured were being led away. People in shock were walking toward her. “At first when I looked at the World Trade Center I thought it was just debris going down, and then I saw legs and arms. I couldn’t believe my eyes.” Then came “a horrible noise.” “I snapped one frame when the building started collapsing and I realized it was coming down. I heard somebody scream and started running, but I wasn’t afraid, it was so surreal, like it wasn’t happening.” Someone ran into her and she fell to the sidewalk. “I’m going to die right now,” she recalls thinking. “People are going to run over me.” Samoilova looked behind her to see the monstrous dust cloud coming her way. She hid in front of a car. She could not recall hearing the building fall, only the shhhhh sound of a terrible wind filled with debris and smoke. Unable to breathe, she began to choke. It was so dark that she thought she had been buried alive. “The next thing I remember is that it was so silent. The only thing I could hear was the paper flying.” One of the two rolls that Samoilova shot was black and white and AP had no facilities to develop it. At home, she mixed a gallon of chemicals and processed the roll, with AP on the phone urging her to get to the office immediately. She walked from Southbridge Towers to her office at Rockefeller Center, clutching the tank that contained her still-wet film. Her dramatic photo of the tower breaking apart was one of the most widely published pictures of the disaster.

BUCKET BRIGADE Brian Barasky is the owner of the Reade Street Pub. This is his story. The first day, I was going nuts. I had to do something. I walked down and joined some volunteers in front of Century 21. No one knew what was going on. People organized themselves, going on instinct. We built wooden bridges over the fire hoses so that cranes and trucks could go over them. I worked about seven hours, went home and got a little sleep. The next day, I joined a bucket brigade. There were about 20 men in a line and we’d fill five-gallon buckets with debris and pass them along. I had a little pick crowbar. But we mostly used our hands.

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Right: Ready to help rescue survivors, volunteers line up on Jay Street in the afternoon of Sept. 11. Far right: Army Lt. Brian Pelton teaches CPR that day to volunteers on West Street who believe they will be allowed to help with the rescue effort. They were turned away.

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On Sept. 11, weary firefighters pause to rest on West Broadway after hours in the rescue effort at Ground Zero.

It took two hours to get to the head of the line. As men got too tired to work, they’d leave and you moved up. The first time I got to the head of the line, I looked down and there were people digging below me like rats digging in a hole, climbing everywhere through the wreckage. It was terrifying. I thought, “Oh, shit, I can’t back out now.” Things were hot and sharp. You were next to patches of fire. I found a guy’s laptop with his name still on it, a shoe, a chair. It was a nightmare. Every once in a while, you’d lift up your head and see thousands of men passing buckets. But we were like a needle in a haystack. They could have used another 10,000 people. I had to keep taking off my mask because my glasses got fogged up. The smells kept changing. First there was rubber and then other terrible, filthy odors. The buckets were constantly going all around you, back and forth. I looked at guys working and didn’t see anything in their eyes. They were in shock. Everyone had a blank expression. You knew you probably weren’t going to find anyone. But there was that small hope. The third night was the worst. It was raining and there was lightning. I was

working under One Liberty Plaza. I thought it was going to fall on us. It had a big chunk taken out of it. We all felt a real unity. If that building fell down, we were all going down together. Sometime during the night, there was a big explosion and I thought, “Is something else happening?” But no one left. They just kept filling up those buckets. After a few hours, the wind picked up real quick and the glass started falling out. Someone with a bullhorn told us to get out. I went to Puffy’s, got drunk, and never went back again.

A 5TH-GRADER’S STORY Thea Glassman was a 5th-grader at P.S. 89 on Sept. 11. This is her story, as recorded two days later by her father, Trib editor Carl Glassman. We were just settling down and all of a sudden we heard an explosion. Then we heard Barbara, the secretary, yell over the loudspeaker, Ronnie! [Principal Ronnie Najjar] Come to the office immediately. The speaker came on again and they said there’s been a slight accident at the World Trade Center. Nothing to worry about. Just stay calm. I knew she was only saying “slight” because she knew there were preschoolers and kindergartners there. Everyone was getting a little

bit nervous and all these kids were like, “Oh, my mom went shopping there today.” Christie [Mulligan, the teacher] said I’ll read to you to keep your minds off this thing. She started to recap what happened yesterday in the book. And parents were already coming in and taking their children. One called Christie away and then Christie came and said, “Okay, everyone line up in the hall. Okay, everyone, you’ve had fire drills, now this is a real one.” Just as we were about to leave, Mom came. I got really scared because she was all white and her teeth were clenched and she said, “Can I take Thea?” And I left my backpack ‘cause she looked so scared and my lunch is probably rotting there. So we left and she looked so scared, I didn’t want to ask her where we were going to go. We kept walking north—all these people were walking north. I made the mistake of looking back. It was terrible. There was smoke coming out of the top and it was all red, and I saw fire, I looked twice and I couldn’t look any more. My Mom said, “Don’t look back.” We kept walking. Then I heard a crack. The World Trade Center was falling down. And this guy said [imitates sobs], “The whole world is collapsing!” ■

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For those with apartments that were uninhabitable or in ‘frozen zones,’ home was wherever they could find it

aul and Beth Lieberman walked north on Hudson Street 10 days after the disaster, hauling four duffel bags on a small luggage carrier. They had stuffed them with all they could carry from their home at 80 Warren St., where they had been allowed in only long enough to gather up some essentials. “We packed clothes for the kids,” Paul said, crossing Chambers Street. “And I got some clothes for work. Yesterday we waited in the rain but they wouldn’t allow us back in. The police said it was all closed off.” The Lieberman family was among the more fortunate of the displaced. They had a house on Long Island and spent a night with friends uptown. Many others had rushed out of their apartments that morning unsure of where they would sleep that night. Some ended up in hotels, or in the spare rooms of friends or family. Others found their way to Red Cross shelters. Like the Liebermans, most carried with them what few belongings they had thought to grab on their way out the door. Twenty-five thousand residents living below Chambers Street were displaced for two or three weeks to several months. Some, living closest to the site, could not move home until December 2002. No one wanted to complain, early on, about their own personal circumstances, which at the very least could mean the lack of water and electricity. In the face of such tragedy, who could? Soon enough there would be frustration with city agencies and landlords over dusty buildings, foul air, restricted access to the area and limited transportation. But during the first few days, it was enough to be with family again and feel safe. “I felt like I’d gone from Beirut to Paris,” Jerry Hayes, a Chambers Street resident, said after being reunited with his wife on the Upper East Side. Half of the Tribeca Grand Hotel’s 203 rooms were occupied by Downtown residents. The dimly lit lobby had the look of a chic refugee camp. Beverly Peterson and Farrell Brickhouse, forced out of their loft at 71 West Broadway, found a room in a hotel on 28th Street. “I thought, I can handle this,” Peterson recalled. Their room had a view of the Empire State Building five blocks away. “I was relieved to wake up in the morning and see it standing.” Still, those digs were only temporary, and like many others who left, the

Top: Many of the displaced could be seen walking with their belongings, like this trio on Hudson Street. Above: Two nights after the attack, a Tribeca resident sleeps in a Red Cross shelter in the library of Washington Irving High School near Union Square.

Ed Hardesty moved belongings from his apartment in 600 Gateway Plaza to an apartment uptown. He said he doubted that he would return. “We have a spectacular view of Ground Zero,” he said. “Who wants that?”

The Tribeca Grand Hotel was home to about 100 families who could not return to apartments in Battery Park City or to Tribeca south of Chambers Street. Among them were Alan Miller and Judy Fox-Miller, shown here with son Nathan. “They’ve gone out of their way here,” Fox-Miller said of the hotel, which reduced the price of rooms and food and offered complimentary phone calls. On the next two anniversaries, many former “guests” would return for a reunion to say thanks.

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Five days after the attack, Bob Townley, the director of Manhattan Youth, addressed hundreds of residents in a basketball court at Canal Street in a first effort to organize the community. Some 7,000 Battery Park City residents, and thousands more from Tribeca and the Financial District, were temporarily forced out of their homes after Sept. 11.

couple would end up moving several more times that month. Some would decide never to return. Antoinette and Leo Tulito fled their apartment at 275 Greenwich St. and the neighborhood after the first tower fell. They walked uptown to get their two children. By the time they arrived at their son’s school on East 74th Street, his teacher from the previous year had arranged for them to live with her sisterin-law—whom they had never met. “We stayed for a week,” Antoinette said shortly afterwards. “They were a family of four and we were four. They fed us, gave us clothes and everything we needed. I never met people who were so understanding and so kind. They were an answer to our prayers in a desperate moment.” Jim Stratton, a Trib columnist who lives on Franklin Street, was one of many in Tribeca who were not displaced, but had to show ID to police or National Guardsmen in order to get home. “We were guarded by friendly forces that were often indifferent or hostile, but

Passing the time: Independence Plaza residents sit across the street from their home at Greenwich and North Moore. On Sept. 12, Rocco D’Orazio, right, and his brother Dante, who could not return to their Greenwich Court home, sit at the corner of Chambers and Greenwich.

never friendly,” he wrote. “We were made to feel that just by going home we were breaching national security.” Five days after the terrorist strike, more than 100 Battery Park City residents lined up behind police barricades at Pier 40, waiting to return to their

apartments. (Residents who had left pets behind were given priority and volunteers from animal groups such as PETA and the ASPCA provided escorts to their apartments.) Once home, Battery Park City residents were allowed 20 minutes at most

to gather up what they could carry and then leave. At the pier, some stood patiently as the wait stretched into hours. Others sat on the pavement or on folding chairs. They swapped stories of the day they would never forget and listened to news from others who had been “inside.” They also came with questions: How long would they have inside their apartments? What should they take? Was there electricity? Water? When could they move back? Terry Haman, of 225 Rector Pl., returned from beyond the barricade with a bag of clothes and a guitar. He did not have any answers for the waiting Battery Park City residents, either. But he did offer them a warning. “You won’t recognize South End Avenue,” he said. ■

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Seeing to For Downtown schools, the year began with flames, dust, and a valiant struggle to care for so many students he school year, like the day itself, was just unfolding. Elementary school children were still settling into their new morning routines, while many of their parents lingered in the schoolyards. “Residuals,” Ronnie Najjar, principal of P.S. 89, called them, the parents who hang around after they drop off their kids. Then the sky fell. “It was horrifying,” said Najjar. “People crying, hysteria. I got every parent into the building.” A dozen or so stayed, some proving more helpful than others. Najjar had to pull a few aside. “You can come to the cafeteria with the rest of us, or you can take your child home. But you cannot stand outside classrooms and scream.” On the intercom at P.S. 234, Principal Anna Switzer’s voice was calm. “Will the teachers in the classrooms on the south side of the building please close your blinds,” she said, as five blocks away, in plain sight of the children, smoke billowed from Tower 1. From the plaza outside P.S. 150 in Independence Plaza, Principal Alyssa Polack watched the first plane fly overhead. “What seemed like forever took maybe ten seconds,” she said. “Then the explosion.” She went inside, going from classroom to classroom, checking on the students, breaking the news to the teachers. At Edward Amber’s pre-k class, she finally broke down and cried. “He looked at me and asked unbelievingly, ‘What are you saying?’” Shortly after 10 a.m. Polack gave orders to evacuate the buildings and everyone headed north. When the second tower fell, there was a mad rush and some children fell. She picked up two at Top: After helping children at school, P.S. 234 family assistant Kathy Sussell flees with daughter Emily as the south tower falls. a time and kept going. Holding hands behind them are P.S. 234 staffers Joanie Abrahams, right, and Tara Doebele. Above left: A 4th-grader’s drawing “Keep moving! We have to keep of the Twin Towers. When Downtown children returned to school, many chose 9/11 as a subject for writing and drawing. Above walking,” P.S. 89’s Najjar yelled to her right: At her first meeting with parents at P.S. 41, P.S. 234 Principal Anna Switzer was greeted with a standing ovation. students, fearing they would look back. The High School of Economics and Finance and the High School of Leadership and Public Service are on Trinity Place, a mere two blocks from the terror of that day. Contrary to orders from the school district, Principal Ada Rosario Dolch wisely chose to evacuate her 600 students after the second plane struck. She would later learn that her sister had died in the attack. “I can only imagine how bad it would have been if they had stayed,” recalled Bob Horan, whose daughter Megan was a Leadership student. “Ada is one of my personal heroes.” In an essay in the Trib, Stuyvesant High School freshman William Winkelman wrote of the chaos at his school, of teachers and students crying while being told to continue the day as normal—except not to go out for lunch. Only after dust had enveloped the school did the order come to leave. “When an announcement was made to evacuate no one knew what to do,” he wrote. I.S. 89 Principal Ellen Foote recalls the “adrenaline rush” that kept her focused on the safety of her students and staff. Only at around 8 p.m., in Chinatown, after she had delivered the last Lacking furniture or separate classrooms, two classes of P.S. 89 4th-graders gather around teachers Margaret O’Connell, near, student to a relative, did she consider and Shoshana Wolfe at P.S. 3 on their second day of class after the attacks. P.S. 150 was also now housed in the school. It was a her own situation. Her bag with her waldifficult several weeks before P.S. 89 could move, on Oct. 22, to an airy wing of NEST, a school on East Houston Street. “I feel like I’ve been walking around with a huge roll of masking tape, trying to hold things together,” said Principal Ronnie Najjar. let and house keys were at school and her husband was out of town. “At that point,” she recalled, “I began to crumble.” ■

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The P.S. 89 community was bitterly divided over the safety of returning to the school building. Parents in favor of going back in February 2002 went public with a demonstration by children at the school.

At a meeting presided over by P.S. 89’s PTA Co-Chair Sharon Sprague, parents, worried about pollution from the World Trade Center site, voted to authorize a lawsuit against the Board of Education to stop a mandated return to school.

Back to School, or Not risp orders, calm leadership and pure adrenaline are what it took to get Lower Manhattan students safely out of their school buildings and harm’s way on the morning the towers fell. Returning the students to their schools once the danger had passed was a far more considered, complicated and rancorous negotiation. In the first hours and days it seemed enough to get the students out of Downtown and into classrooms well away from the smoke of the buildings and clamor of the recovery effort. P.S. 234 students initially landed at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, but later moved to roomier digs at St. Bernard’s, a vacated parochial school on West 13th Street. P.S. 89 students were not so lucky. They were sent to overcrowded P.S. 3 in the Village, already teeming with its own students and those of P.S. 150, which had also been sent there. After less than three weeks at P.S. 3, P.S. 89 Principal Ronnie Najjar met with parents and told them conditions there were so bad that she “couldn't keep doing this, even for a week.” I.S. 89 did not fare much better, spending difficult

The split among P.S. 89 parents grew so ugly that the PTA leader pulled his child out of the school. Three months later his successor did the same. Hoping to stave off the mandated return to P.S. 89, the parents voted to authorize a suit against the Board of Education—then days later reversed themselves and voted to withdraw it. Under the glare of television lights, children rallied in favor of going back. “We want our school!” they shouted. By late February, students in all Tribeca and Battery Park City schools would be back in their buildings. (In a controversial order from the Board of Education, Stuyvesant reopened on Oct. 9, and some students suffered from watering eyes and coughs.) At I.S. 89, there was a ceremony to thank Custodian Sean Casey, who had looked after their “home” while they were gone and the building was being used by city agencies. Quick-thinking Casey had shut the building’s ventilation system when he saw the smoke from the towers, saving it from being inundated with dust. When the students and staff left, Casey stayed behind, spending the next 48 hours in the building and returning to care for it every day afterward. ■

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months at the O. Henry Learning Center in Chelsea, where, initially, the 6th-graders found themselves in the uncomfortable company of very large high-schoolers. “All kinds of stuff was happening in the halls and our teachers felt totally frustrated,” recalled Principal Ellen Foote. “They weren’t able to protect the kids and keep it a positive environment.” P.S. 89 was eventually installed in its own wing of a former junior high on East Houston and Avenue D. But the move was not without controversy. Many parents were furious, complaining that the Board of Education had foisted the out-of-the-way building on their already fragile and heavily diminished school population. Some parents and teachers were again enraged when the Board of Education mandated a Feb. 28 return date to P.S. 89 for the students. While there were parents who were eager to celebrate a reopening, others spoke of their deep concern about environmental risks of returning while World Trade Center debris was still being trucked and dumped into barges near its doors. At P.S. 234 and P.S. 150, there were similar divisions among parents, but they were resolved more amicably.

A class waits outside P.S. 234 on Feb. 4, 2002, on their return to the school. Some parents, like those at P.S. 89, argued that the air around the school might not be safe. Testing inside and outside the school showed otherwise.

I.S. 89 students return to their school on Jan. 16, 2002, after difficult months sharing space in a high school complex in Chelsea. “Going back to school has never been so exciting,” said 7th-grader Nana Yamazaki.

P.S. 89 parent Michael Fortenbaugh leads children to their school on Feb. 28, 2002, for an emotional homecoming. Some parents, concerned about the air, enrolled their children in other schools.

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Parents wanted nothing more than to see their children’s lives return to what they had been hen terror shut Lower Manhattan down those first weeks, it seemed as though nothing would be the same. Families scattered, schools closed, the air reeked, and many parents questioned whether this was any place to rear a child. But all along, even in those early, dark days, there were signs that the community would find its new normal, that the kids would be all right. There was soccer on Pier 40 just days following the disaster. Children paraded in Halloween costumes on Jay Street, only a few blocks from the stillsmoldering ruins. Santa returned, as usual, to Washington Market Park. No sooner was there access to Warren Street than Manhattan Youth opened its teen center there and brought basketball back to Downtown school gyms even before the schools themselves had reopened. “You really don’t heal until you’re back home,” Carolyn McGuffog said that December. She was watching her eight-year-old daughter, McKenzie, at basketball practice in the Stuyvesant High School gym. Ordinary moments like these were triumphant milestones to many Downtown parents. Each was a kind of first, bringing their children a little closer to the world they had known before recovery vehicles occupied ball fields and air monitors hummed in school hallways. “What does it mean for children to be this young and know this much?” asked Elissa Kraus, who had held baby wipes over her four-year-old’s face as they holed up in a nursery school subbasement when the south tower collapsed two blocks away, filling the room with smoke. When I.S. 89 students returned to their building in January, they wrote about their school year. There were images of horror, but also youthful optimism. “With one hand we grip the memories,” wrote 6th-grader Lana Barkin, “and with the other, we grow.” ■

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Above: Facing a changed skyline, Jules Berman, 7, of the Downtown Little League, takes a practice swing on an empty lot in Battery Park City. Such sights were welcome to parents who questioned whether, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, living Downtown could ever be normal again. Inset: Before Sept. 11, the Twin Towers were part of the Little League backdrop. Right: Seemingly everyone had an opinion about how best to rebuild the Trade Center site. Eighteen months after the attacks, students at P.S. 89 drew up plans of their own. Thirdgrader Emel Saat’s construction shows a pool where visitors could swim year-round. Diksha Gupta’s vision was of a site that was “pretty and fun and where you can jump and slide or play games.”

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Outside the smoldering site, recovery was also aided by so many who asked, ‘How can I help?’ he worst of times can bring out the best in people, as witnessed after the devastation of Sept. 11. Or, as Diane Lapson put it back then, quoting a Buddhist saying: “The muddier the swamp, the more beautiful the lotus flower.” Lapson, who along with other Independence Plaza tenant leaders had worked tirelessly to aid the elderly in their buildings after the attacks, were among many who stepped forward in

A Salvation Army station at West and North Moore streets was manned by many volunteers from the neighborhood.

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Clockwise from top left: St. Paul’s Chapel, just a block from the wreckage, was a major center for physical and psychological recovery for those working on the pile; Capsouto Frères was among restaurants that fed workers and local residents; a volunteer masseuse provided comfort to police officers near the 1st Precinct; a food cart from Tribeca Grill is rolled up Greenwich Street after feeding rescue workers; John Kapferer came from Chatham, N.J., to provide hugs and cheer to Downtown residents.

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Meals on Wheels trucks couldn’t come Downtown, so Eileen McColgan and sons Darby and Aidan delivered to the homebound in Independence Plaza.

myriad ways to help neighbors and support the recovery. In bucket brigades and medical stations, in makeshift supply centers and oases of soothing respite, volunteers were on hand to offer their services, lend their talents or just give their time however they could. Restaurant owners threw open their doors and coolers, offering empty banquettes as bunks for exhausted rescue workers and food for the taking. St. Paul’s Chapel became a sanctuary for rescue and recovery workers to leave behind their grief, toil and exhaustion. There, volunteers doled out food, counseling, massages and solace. “St. Paul’s was heaven,” is how one rescue worker put it. “Ground Zero was hell.” Other volunteers took to helping on their own. Noah Hyman, a physical therapist who had a practice on Franklin Street, carried his table from one corner to another, ready to give a massage or treat a back thrown out from shoveling. “These guys have been out there 24 hours at a time,” he said. “We realign them, fix them up so they can go back out there. They don’t want to stop for anything.” Three tenants and super Rita Morris were all who remained of the 200 residents of 121 Reade St. Rather than flee, they set up a popular “store” of donated goods for recovery workers across the street in the HSBC bank vestibule. “We want to do our small part,” said Aaron Galvan, a tenant who like the others was living without water or electricity, “for the guys who are really putting it on the line.” ■

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BEHIND BARRICADES: An onslaught of visitors and the National Guard made many residents feel that their streets were not their own. Above: National Guard patrol the “frozen zone” on West Broadway below Chambers Street. Many of those Downtown checked IDs of residents and workers before allowing them to pass. Below: People curious to see the devastation got as close as they could. In Tribeca, they looked at the site on Greenwich Street, near Jay Street.

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In the weeks that followed Sept. 11, residents were desperate for information. Thousands turned out at the ballroom of the Regent Wall Street hotel in early October, where more than 20 elected officials and representatives of city agencies took a barrage of questions and angry remarks. Local elected representatives, united as the Ground Zero Task Force, became the community’s advocate, but even they were often stonewalled by overwhelmed and harried high-level city officials.

Questions and Anger n the weeks that followed Sept. 11, residents were desperate for information. When could they go home? Was the air safe to breathe? How should they clean their apartments? Could they break their leases? The frustration was palpable in meetings organized by community leaders. They listened but, with city officials preoccupied with unprecedented catastrophe, they could provide few answers. At the first meeting, on Sept. 24 in an NYU lecture hall, some 400 residents and business owners, more than twice what the room could hold, showed up. They learned almost nothing. “If we’re not getting information this evening, how do we get the message to the mayor that we need answers?” asked resident Mark Moskin, who lived at Broadway and Warren Street.

home, just across the street, but I can’t get in,” said a woman who lived on Broadway near City Hall. “How do you decide it’s a crime scene on one side of the street, but across the street it’s not?” Community Board 1 Chair Madelyn Wils and Councilwoman Kathryn Freed, In Battery Park City, National Guardsmen and police checked both Tribeca resiIDs of people who wanted to go back to their apartments to redents, told the trieve their belongings and pets. crowd that they “I’ll be satisfied if they just gave us a were doing their best. timeline,” another resident said. “Is it a “It’s been very difficult to get any inday, a week, a month, two months?” formation out of the mayor’s office,” The residents challenged the city’s Wils said. justification for keeping their buildings Three tenants at 125 Cedar St., the off limits. Buildings had been found to residential building closest to the disasbe structurally sound, they asserted. And ter site, said they wanted to go back to the claim that the area was a crime scene their badly damaged homes to rebuild. seemed arbitrary. As it was, they said, they didn’t have a “I see tourists walking in front of my chance to retrieve their belongings.

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For frustrated residents feeling forgotten by city officials, questions were many, and answers few

“They give us 15 or 30 minutes to get stuff, but our apartment looks like it was a mile from an atomic blast,” said Andy Jurinko. (Jurinko, an artist and longtime Lower Manhattan resident, died last February.) “We can’t find things because everything’s covered in six inches of ash and debris. There are computers lying in my living room from the World Trade Center.” Patricia Moore, Jurinko’s wife, captured the feelings of many in the room. “Someone has to deal with us,” she said. There would be bigger rooms for the next meetings, but no fewer frustrations. On Sept. 28, more than 1,000 residents, many from Battery Park City’s Gateway Plaza buildings that remained closed, packed Pace University’s Schimmel Center auditorium for a meeting with officials. Standing in doorways, sitting in aisles and on the floor in front of the stage, the crowd wanted to know when the dust and ash would be cleaned from their apartments. When would more streets be opened? What financial assistance was available? Donald Scherer, president of the Bat-

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“We understand that the officials care,” said Battery Park City resident Donald Scherer. “But we also want action.”

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tery Park City Residents Association, which organized the meeting, struggled to maintain calm in the room. “It’s important to keep things in perspective,” he said. “A lot of people lost their lives.” But he also stressed the residents’ frustration. “We understand that the officials care but we also want action,” he continued. “We want them to remember us. We’re still living in an area that can only be called a war zone.” Representatives of the Battery Park City Authority described efforts to get the neighborhood back to something approaching normality. Some skeptical residents hooted. An official from the federal Environmental Protection Agency said there was ongoing air quality testing but that she didn’t have conclusive results. Two tenant lawyers answered legal

questions and offered assistance, and resident association leaders began organizing members building by building, activities that would lead to tenant strikes and lawsuits. The biggest gathering of all took place on Oct. 3 when several thousand residents gathered in the ballroom of the Regent Wall Street hotel (now Cipriani Wall Street). One by one residents came to the microphone to hurl questions and angry remarks at the more than 20 elected officials and representatives of city agencies who sat before them. At times CB1’s Madelyn Wils was among the targets of the invective, though she was as frustrated as anyone at the pace of help from the city. Still, she said later, she understood. “It’s such an unprecedented occurrence. I felt like I need to be the conduit for whatever people are feeling.” ■

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So Many Disputes

Top: In December 2001, rent strikers, led by Sudhir Jain, center, in front of their building at 50 Battery Pl. Above: Tenants of 80 John St. reached a settlement with their landlord after going to court.

Before a mediation session begins in a courtroom at 111 Centre Street, mediators and a court clerk pose with attorneys representing the owner of a Cliff Street restaurant and a lawyer for the restaurant’s landlords. At center is Fern Fisher, the administrative judge in charge of the mediation program. In this case, an agreement was reached between the restaurant owner and the landlord and the eviction did not take place.

Dust and the disruption to life and commerce quickly turn tenants and landlords into adversaries t was only a matter of weeks after Sept. 11 before residents and business owners near the destruction were facing off against landlords. Some demanded rent reductions or the right to break leases, while others wanted environmental cleanups and independent air tests. By October, one lawyer alone represented tenants of five Downtown apartment buildings, including the 5,000 tenants of Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City. And by year’s end, tenants in at least 10 residential buildings near Ground Zero were on rent strike, demanding rigorous tests and cleanups, and rent reductions to reflect the postSept. 11 market.

“I’m not willing to gamble with my health because they have no interest in looking out for people who live in the building,” said Cynthia Lane, president of the 80 John Street Tenant Association, who complained that the owners of her building had done “nothing at all” to clean the ventilation system. Kate Webber-Pitcock, the leader of rent-striking tenants at 88 Greenwich Street, two blocks south of the site, complained that there was no protocol for cleaning. “So far, we’ve just seen a woman with a mop,” she said, despite claims to the contrary by the building owners. Tenants at 80 John Street voted in favor of settling with the building’s

landlord—the first landlord-tenant case stemming from Sept. 11 to go to trial. “We’re going to get a cleanup and we wouldn’t have gotten any otherwise,” said Webber-Pitcock. Meanwhile, with the streets empty and their businesses bringing in no money, many owners could not make the rent and faced eviction. On one typical afternoon in June, 2002, in the 11th floor hallway of the Civil Court building, a Trib reporter found the owner of a financial consulting firm on Lower Broadway, the proprietor of a nail salon on Pearl Street, and the lawyer for a Lower East Side restaurateur. All hoped to resolve disputes with

their landlords in a new mediation program intended to save Lower Manhattan businesses. In many cases, the mediation did stave off long legal battles and evictions, or at least found a partial solution, leaving other cases to be decided in court. “If a business is evicted, the owner loses a tenant and money, and the tenant loses a business. It does nobody any good to have empty storefronts,” said Fern Fisher, the administrative law judge who oversaw the mediation program. “There really are no good guys and bad guys,” Fisher said. “The situation was not caused by owners or tenants but by terrorists.” ■

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Far right: In September, employees from restaurants on Greenwich Street stood at Jay Street behind a police barricade trying to entice potential customers. Restaurateurs were permitted to escort diners across police lines. Right: Mark Mozaffari of Trilogy Photo Processing Lab on Chambers Street sells pictures he had taken on Sept. 11, the only business he was able to do.

Hanging On For business owners, it would be hard to imagine today’s Downtown in the dark days following 9/11 ower Manhattan is thriving as never before.” That’s the conclusion of a report released last month by the Downtown Alliance, citing more businesses below Chambers Street than were there on Sept. 10, 2001—and a doubling of the area’s population to 56,000. Downtown’s decade of commercial resurgence, from the days of desolate streets and shuttered or moribund businesses, is all the more striking when the numbers back then are recalled. More than 700 companies below Chambers Street moved or shut down in the first two years after Sept. 11; nearly 100,000 people lost their jobs; 25,000 residents below Chambers Street were displaced, from a few weeks to months. Four subway stations, used daily by 66,000 riders, were closed. The customers were gone. “I won’t be able to afford my rent,” Boris Krivoruk, owner of a shoe repair shop on Warren Street, said a month after the attacks. He pulled from his pocket the assortment of pills his doctor had given him for his heart and blood pressure. “Most of my customers worked in the area. They brought their shoes in the morning and picked them up at night.” At the police barrier on Canal Street, which cordoned off the area and allowed in only workers or residents, Tribeca business owners desperate for customers met clients and escorted them through the checkpoint. Stores south of Chambers Street, in the so-called “frozen zone,” were completely cut off from the public. Tribeca Hardware put flyers around the neighborhood advertising delivery service. Mailboxes Etc., on Greenwich Street, distributed mail from an empty storefront on the north

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Adam Arici visits his devastated store, the Amish Market at 1 Cedar St, still filled with dust and debris. “I spent two years building the business,” Arici said, “and I deserve to come back. The owner said that the $80,000 he got from insurance and the city was far from the $1 million he needed to reopen.

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To recoup some of his losses, owner Nikone Ongkeo of Mangez Avec Moi turned his West Broadway restaurant into a souvenir shop for tourists.

side of Chambers Street. Many businesses had to operate without phone service. “We need the barriers down,” one merchant said at a meeting of business owners. “We’re in a no-man’s land and we need business desperately.” Landlords, they complained, were offering few or no breaks on rent. With local schools closed for four and five months, business catering to children especially suffered. Enrollment at Church Street School for Music and Art was down by half. Children’s Tumbling ran classes with only three students. Its owner, Suellen Epstein, sent dozens of postcards to students in Battery Park City. Most came back, “Moved. No forwarding address.” “If you have a flood or an earthquake, you can pretty much gauge how long it will take to recover,” said Jim Neill of the Small Business Administration, who met with Downtown business owners. “This one is not so obvious.” It would take only a month before grassroots organizations would try to revive business. There was From the Ground Up, a small business lobbying group. Wall Street Rising, founded by Julie Menin, then the owner of a Broad Street restaurant, raised money for programs to bring customers Downtown. Tribeca Organization, started by Jennifer Mabley, a fabric store owner on North Moore Street, brought together owners of 125 small businesses. They bought full-page ads in the New York Times, luring customers to Tribeca with store discounts. At the same time, the federal government began offering business grants, wage subsidies and low-interest loans. A $1.6 billion Liberty Bond program speeded up residential and commercial development. Adam Arici was a pioneer when he opened his Amish Market to a nascent residential Downtown population in 1999, across the street from the World Trade Center. Less than three years later his store was in ruins, flooded with dust and debris. But Arici could already see back then what so many others could not in those days. “This area will come back strong,” he said. ■

The owner of a small store on Chambers Street, in the “frozen zone,” cleans out his dust-contaminated goods after Sept. 11.

“We need the barriers down,” one business owner said. “We’re in a no-man’s-land and we need business desperately.”

Top left: In September 2001, business owners crowded into Independence Plaza’s community room to meet with a representative of the federal Small Business Administration. They complained about a lack of government financial assistance. Top right: Kitchenette co-owner Ann Nickinson in her restaurant, at the time on West Broadway, soon after reopening in October 2001. “We’re both very hopeful but it’s going to take time,” said her partner, Lisa Hall. Above: At Ray’s Barber Shop on Chambers Street, Rashel Tahlov and Boris Mashkabov played backgammon and Wally Mashkabov watched TV while waiting for customers.

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Dust is tested in a Tribeca apartment in 2007, part of a second testing program by the EPA. The agency said it found little evidence of residual Trade Center dust in its sampling.

The P.S./I.S. 89 playground is cleaned of remaining dust. Schools were cleaned inside and out before students returned and air monitors continued to hum in hallways after that.

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Out of the Air

Clockwise from top: A Battery Park City resident inspects her apartment, where a film of Trade Center dust covered almost everything; at a rally in support of the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, a proponent holds up medications used by recovery workers; the Washington Market Park playground was off limits because of Trade Center dust mixed with the sand.

fficially, the World Trade Center fires flickered out on Dec. 19, 2001. But even as 10 years have passed and the plumes of smoke are long gone, the dust has not competely settled. The tragedy of Sept. 11 and its aftermath lived on in lingering questions of well-being—physical and emotional—for those who lived and worked Downtown. “Downtowners Caught in Grip of Malaise,” was the headline of a November 2002 Trib story that spoke of some of the psychological challenges many residents faced. Even now, feelings of disquiet and fear can resurface. As Jillian Blume prepared to leave her Battery Park City home last month in advance of Hurricane Irene, she was thinking back to the time 10 years ago when she was first forced to go. “The whole idea of evacuating makes me anxious,” Blume said. “With the earthquake and the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, everyone’s on edge already. It’s bringing up a lot of memories.” Then there are the health concerns for those who breathed the worrisome air—and the questions and conflicts that still arise. Even with the recent passage of the “Zadroga” Act, providing health care and compensation to those affected, critics said it did not go far enough; cancer should be covered, they said, refuting studies showing inconclusive evidence of a connction to the disease. Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, CB1 and others sought to expand the boundaries for coverage under the act. (Late last month that effort was won.) Conflicts with officials over dangers in the air, and their response to it, go back nearly to the event itself, starting with the alleged downplaying of health risks in Lower Manhattan. There were complaints of slow and inadequate cleanup plans by the city and state, which only included building facades. For months, a coalition calling itself 9/11 Environmental Action pressed the federal EPA to take on the job and include interiors. Eventually, it did and some 4,000 homes were cleaned. Still there were complaints that the effort was inadequate. A testing program followed in 2007, but not without criticism of its methods, even by the EPA’s own panel of experts. Whatever the lingering impact on the Downtown community, the 10th anniversary will almost certainly bring to mind some of the physical and emotional unease of those days. Back in May 2002, psychologist Sharon Kofman met with a group of Tribeca residents who hoped to shake off the effects of Sept. 11. Those feelings were far fresher then, but her words still apply. “It takes a lot of time to accept that we’re frail and unprotected,” Kofman told the group, “and that we must live with uncertainty.” ■

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The Other ‘Pile’

A crane operator’s view as he pulls one of the 10 levers he controls and dumps debris into a waiting barge at the pier.

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No glory for the men at Pier 25, working long hours to keep the debris moving off Manhattan ier 25, at the end of North Moore Street, though just a few blocks from Ground Zero, was worlds away in the public mind after Sept. 11. But for eight long months, the area around the pier was the first stop on the sad journey for mangled steel and unidentifiable debris that was once the World Trade Center. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, an endless caravan of trucks rolled up West Street to just outside the pier. There they dropped their loads into steel pans big enough to hold a car. Cranes hoisted each pan, dumping the contents into a waiting barge. Debris went to the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, steel to scrapyards in New Jersey. Nearly 5,000 tons were moved each 12-hour shift. It was a noisy, dusty and depressing operation—and a source of unending concern for the community. The crashing of steel and worrisome presence of dust and debris rattled nearby residents, prompting activists, educators, politicians and others to call for moving the

P Clockwise above: Trucks from the World Trade Center site line up on West Street, waiting to unload debris. As many as 240 trucks made the trip in a 12-hour shift; the debris is loaded into a giant “pan,” to then be dumped in a barge beside the floating crane. A tugboat waits to push a barge to Staten Island; at night the operation was flooded with light.

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RON REED, hose station: Seeing the body parts that are sometimes in with the debris is the hardest part of this job, harder than working 12 hours a day and harder than working in the pouring rain. who worked the long round-the-clock shifts. To many on those 15-man crews, the job was more than steady, dirty and sometimes sad. They called it an honor. But they got no glory. Only grief. “We are part of the mix. We move tons of steel and everything goes through here, but no one cares and that hurts,” said Mike Mazzei, a traffic director with the operation who made sure that the trucks, as many as 240 a day, kept moving steadily. “All of the residents are so quick to complain that they want us thrown out

of here, that we create so much dust,” Mazzei said. “They have that ‘not-inmy-neighborhood’ attitude. But this is the most efficient way of removing the debris from the site, and that’s that.” Jeff Glennon, a superintendent on the operation, said it was not just noise and dust that made his men “secondclass citizens.” “Because we’re removed from Ground Zero, people don’t see our work as important,” he said. “But these men work just as long and just as hard. Sometimes people come by and complain. I

don’t think I’d want to live next to here. But this isn’t just a local problem. It’s a tragedy you can’t even describe.” John Wiggins, a crane operator, came up from Georgia to work at the pier. It was his job to lift the loaded pans, swing them westward, and dump their mangled contents into the barges. “To be honest, I’m not only here to help the cleanup,” he said. “It’s a salary and I have to make a living. But there’s a debate in my mind because I wish I could do this for nothing. At least I’m here doing it.” ■

In the End

In March 2002, demonstrators (mostly Stuyvesant High School parents) held a rally at the foot of the Tribeca Bridge, calling for the barge operation to move.

n May 2002, when the city ceremoniously ended its recovery operation at Ground Zero, the barge men of Pier 25 held a ceremony of their own. On the Tribeca waterfront, where 1.1 million tons of mangled steel and unrecognizable debris had been offloaded around the clock for eight months, the last of more than 60,000 truckloads had come and gone. The remaining floating crane, one of the two that had hoisted it all onto barges, would soon be taken away by tug. It was time to mark the end of the cleanup operation on Pier 25. There were no speeches at this ceremony. Just a cookout, some group photos and a last bit of demolition. Jerard Geary locked the steel jaws of his excavator onto the roofs of the two small wooden shacks that had been Together for the last time, the barge men of Pier 25 pose for Mike the men’s shelter for all those months, and in a Mazzei in front of a banner that tells, in remarkable tallies, the story of their operation. matter of seconds smashed them into scrap. “There goes our home, Tommy. No more come to work.” shanty left,” Robert Lang, who maintained the heavy equipThere was still some final business to attend to. The 100 ment from the start, said to dock builder Tommy Vario. cubic yards of sand on the pier’s volleyball court had to be Somewhere amid the splintered wood were the sprayreplaced before the barge and the crane and the crews could painted words, “Some gave all, all gave some.” leave for good. No sooner would they be gone than bikers “It’s over,” the men kept saying, and some talked of and joggers would appear—for the first time since that their relief that the 12-hour days of the seven-day work sunny Sept. 11 morning—along what had been their waterweeks were over. But not everyone. front bike path. “I started work at 19 and I’ve never liked my job,” said “I can’t believe it’s over,” Harkin said, shaking his head. dock builder foreman Danny Harkin, 43. “This is one job I “It might take me a week or two to realize what really went got up and came to work every day and I was happy to on.” ■

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operation upriver and away from homes and schools. As one Stuyvesant High School parent protested: “What a symbolic unhealing process for kids to see this all day long. Those are the loudest noises I’ve heard since the planes crashed into the towers.” Across West Street was the residential complex Independence Plaza, where memories of the disaster would revisit tenants like John Lynch day and night. “I know it has to be done and I don’t want to complain,” said Lynch, who was awakened nightly by the crashing steel. “But it’s nerve-wracking, to say the least. I sleep with the radio on and always keep the windows closed. It sounds like a sonic boom.” Community Board 1 Chair Madelyn Wils and Councilwoman Kathryn Freed called on the city to move the operation four blocks north to Laight Street. “We are doing a sensitive operation, retrieving people’s loved ones, and we need to do that in the most efficient way possible,” said an Office of Emergency Management spokesman in response to the complaints. “We have no intention of moving it at this time.” None of this was lost on the men

MANNY RODRIGUEZ, truck driver: It’s very emotional, what we’re doing. I speak to the chaplain every night. We talk about loss, emptiness, sadness. I’ve seen tragedy before; I was in Vietnam. But I never saw anything like this.

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After nine years, two deaths and $265 million, the toxic hulk that was 130 Liberty Street is no more he last of the building once known as 130 Liberty Street—the Deutsche Bank building—was trucked away without fanfare in February 2011, bringing a long overdue end to one agonizing legacy of Sept. 11. Demolition of the 41-story structure—badly damaged in the collapse of the Twin Towers just across the street— arrived more than nine years after the attacks and cost more than $265 million. Worst of all, it claimed the lives of two firefighters in a blaze that should have been prevented. “A milestone has been reached at last,” WTC Redevelopment Committee chair Catherine McVay Hughes told the Trib when the demolition was complete. “Nobody who lives and works Downtown can fail to notice the welcome sunlight, but it also serves to remind us of what happened there.” Shrouded in black wire and mesh and full of toxic dust, the building had long been a source of community concern. After mounting criticism about the owner’s failure to make public any plans for the building, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation purchased the structure for $90 million in August 2004, in order to destroy it. The demolition was plagued with delays, mishaps and worse: A worker survived a 40-foot fall; chunks of concrete and glass fell; a pipe speared the nearby firehouse. Then, on the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2007, fire erupted at the site, spreading to 13 floors and killing firefighters Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia. Investigators say the fire was ignited by a worker’s careless smoking. The tangle of regulatory and other government agencies along with multiple layers of private contractors made it difficult to determine where blame for the disaster should lie. But in the investigations that followed, it appeared there was blame to go around. A broken standpipe made it impossible to get water above the fifth floor without lugging fire hoses up the side of the scaffolding; the Fire Department had failed to inspect the demolition site every 15 days as was required; blocked stairwells made it hard for firefighters to navigate the building; plywood and plastic sheeting that had been erected to contain toxic chemicals made the fire worse. The District Attorney’s office eventually filed manslaughter charges against three supervisors and the contractor, John Galt Corporation; in July all three were acquitted. The Galt Corporation was found guilty of second-degree reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor. The city spent more than $5 million prosecuting the cases, and legal fees are expected to continue to mount as cross-suits between the LMDC and its general contractor, Bovis Lend Lease, continue. ■

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Heavy smoke filled 130 Liberty Street in August 2007. The fire led to the deaths of two firemen.

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Years to Bring It Down

Top left: Standing on his terrace at 125 Cedar St., Mark Scherzer holds concrete he said fell from 130 Liberty St., behind him. Top right: Firefighters battle the blaze. Above: Catherine Hughes holds up the Community Board resolution objecting to selection of the contractor.

Sept. 11, 2001 The collapsing towers carve a 15-story gash in the Deutsche Bank building, sending dust and debris inside. Aug. 2004 Following its lengthy fight with insurers, Deutsche Bank sells the building to the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. for $90 million. The purchase is followed by disagreements over how to keep the neighborhood safe from toxic materials while the building is demolished. Feb. 2007 Despite Community Board 1’s objections to the selection of the John Galt Corp. by the LMDC, Galt begins the deconstruction. March & April 2007 Galt receives stop work orders from the Department of Buildings for various violations. May 17, 2007 A 15-foot pipe falls from 35th floor, piercing the roof of a nearby firehouse. June & July 2007 DOB cites Galt for the accumulation of combustible materials, hazardous holes and uncovered gaps and

for unsafely removing beams and columns. Aug. 1, 2007 DOB cites general contractor Bovis Lend Lease and Galt for storing combustible debris under falling sparks. Aug. 18, 2007 Fire breaks out on 17th floor and two firefighters die. Aug. 23, 2007 Galt, taken off the job, is allowed back on for cleanup work and a pallet jack falls 23 floors, injuring two firefighters. Dec. 2008 Three Galt employees are indicted and charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. Nov. 2009 Demolition resumes, with Bovis Lend Lease in charge of the project. Feb. 2011 Demolition is complete and the site is turned over to the Port Authority, which will use the underground portion of the site as part of the Vehicle Security Center. But costly legal battles between Bovis and the LMDC loom ahead. June & July 2011 To the anger of many, the three Galt employees are acquitted.

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FILLING AVOID From blank slate to a site taking shape, the decade of WTC development has been a saga of mammoth size

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From the big screen, Regional Plan Association president Robert Yaro speaks in July 2002 to the throngs at the Javits Center for “Listening to the City.” The group roundly rejected six development plans that had been presented by the LMDC.

The Long Road to Rebuilding

Renderings from four of the six finalists in a competition to design the master plan for the rebuilt World Trade Center site. From top: The winning plan, from Studio Daniel Libeskind (later redesigned); Foster and Partners; Richard Meier & Partners; and THINK Design.

edeviled by controversy, weighted down by egos, plagued by politics and shifting plans, the rebuilding of the 16 acres seemed endlessly troubled. And yet, as the 10th anniversary arrives, every project planned for the site, except for the performing arts center, is now underway. (See page 39.) This month the signature 1 World Trade Center, rising a floor a week, will reach more than 80 stories on the way to its 1,776-foot height. It’s all supposed to be done by 2014—13 years after the journey to rebuilding officially began. That was November 2001, when then-Gov. George Pataki formed the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the city-state agency charged with overseeing the rebuilding of the site and the recovery of Lower Manhattan. The federal government gave it $40 billion to do the job. In an unprecedented exercise in inclusion, architects, planners, residents, academics, artists, victims’ families and ordinary citizens showed up by the hundreds and thousands at public meetings to offer their visions of the reconstructed site and the rebirth of Downtown. In July 2002, the LMDC offered six development plans to a crowd of participants at the Javits Center during a “Listening to the City” event. “Too dense, too dull and too commercial,” the assembly agreed. “We said, ‘Slow down, you need to get some consensus on what you’re going to do,’” recalled Eva Hanhardt, who had organized rebuilding workshops for the Municipal Art Society. The LMDC responded with an open competition in 2003. From a field of six finalists—their plans drawing big crowds to displays in the Winter Garden—Daniel Libeskind was chosen the site’s master planner. Libeskind’s ambitious design included as its centerpiece a 70-story office tower abutted by a side tower that would rise above the office building and was meant to evoke the upraised arm of the Statue of Liberty. The design won praise from the governor but it was unpopular with World Trade Center lease holder Larry Silverstein. The developer rejected the amount of office space in Libeskind’s original plan and brought in David Childs of Skidmore Owings and Merrill to redesign the tower in forced collaboration with Libeskind. Childs got rid of the side tower and moved the spire to the building’s top. In a grand ceremony in 2004—one of

Sept. 13, 2001 City and state lawmakers authorize $8 billion, Congress approves $40 billion in aid to New York City. Nov. 9, 2001 Gov. Pataki announces creation of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to oversee the redevelopment of the Trade Center site and the Downtown area. Jan. 29, 2002 At Stuyvesant High School, Downtown residents share their opinions on rebuilding and the creation of a memorial. Feb. 7, 2002 500 people attend “Listening to the City” redevelopment forum at the Seaport. April 9, 2002 LMDC releases principles for action and preliminary blueprint for the future of Lower Manhattan. May 23, 2002 At Pace University, LMDC holds its first public hearing on redevelopment. May 13, 2002 Silverstein presents plans for 7 WTC. May 28, 2002 Recovery effort officially ends. July 2002 4,000 people attend second “Listening to the City.” They pan LMDC’s site plan offerings. Dec. 2002 Nine new site plans presented. Feb. 2003 Daniel Libeskind’s design is selected. April 2003 Gov. Pataki sets rebuilding timetable: Fulton Street Transit center to open in 2007; PATH station at the end of 2006. Dec. 2003 Second incarnation of Libeskind’s Free-

dom Tower is redesigned by David Childs. It would later be redesigned again. Jan. 2004 Calatrava-designed PATH station design is unveiled. March 2005 The Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center is established. May 2005 Design for a Cultural center is unveiled. Controversy over its selected tenants, the Drawing Center and International Freedom Center, leads to their leaving the site. July 2005 Ground breaking for Fulton Street Transit Center. Nov. 2005 Port Authority shows plans for retail, which it says will open in 2010, coinciding with opening of Calatrava-designed PATH station. Aug. 2007 Deutsche Bank fire. Oct. 2008 Port Authority executive director Chris Ward announces new set of guidelines for its projects at World Trade Center site. May 2009 Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg intervene in dispute between Port Authority and Silverstein over financing of two towers, to no avail. Aug. 2009 The dispute goes to arbitration. March 2010 Port Authority and Silverstein reach tentative agreement, ending 16-month stalemate that would allow for construction of Towers 2 and 3 to begin.

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‘Voices that are impassioned, trembling’ This essay, about the first public planning meeting, appeared in the February 2002 Trib. BY KAREN BENDER t is January, but it feels like a summer night as I walk to the town hall meeting on rebuilding Lower Manhattan. The weather is unnatural and eerie, as though the world is hurrying towards the future. I’m trying to figure out how to get there, how to feel in this unrecognizable world. But as I walk down Greenwich Street to Stuyvesant High School, I head toward the void in the sky, milky with the construction crews’ glaring light, that makes me ache every time I see it. This is the first meeting in which we, the community, can express our feelings about that space in the sky; how we might rebuild the 16 acres where the World Trade Center stood. On the auditorium stage, 16 commu-

nity leaders and planners listen. We are only to comment, not ask questions. But I am full of questions: When will I stop— should I ever stop—scanning the sky for the towers? What would it be like to ride a bicycle, buy a shirt, in this place of devastation, where so many people died? Our community speaks into the microphone. The voices are impassioned, trembling. There are so many ideas: acres of green space. A high school. A library. Office buildings that are not 100 stories high. A mall. Memorials: glass columns etched with portraits of the victims; twin redwoods from California enclosed in a geodesic dome, trees set in the footprints of the towers, one for each lost fireman or policeman. One man suggests three towers. Many applaud the idea of rebuilding the towers. Others argue that only a memorial can go

there, that it is hallowed ground. Sometimes an absurd, obstinate part of me cannot believe the towers are gone. I can stand two blocks away, stare at the desolation, and hope that if I blink, everything will still be there. My husband and I sat in the plaza by the fountain in the summer of 1998, trying to name our unborn son. It seemed a wonderful place to name a child, the towers—grand, shiny rectangles—soaring into the night sky. The people in the auditorium suggest how to replace the glittering towers, that navigation beam. I listen to proposals to build a world-class hospital, an affordable supermarket or a memorial to foster “living understanding.” I hear how my neighbors miss the old world as I do and want to create the new. Their voices comfort me, as we all stumble toward the future. ■

At the first public rebuilding hearing, in January 2002, Ronnie Rosenberg says she wants to see commerce return Downtown as well as a memorial.

In February 2003, Alexander Garvin, the LMDC’s lead planner, presents nine WTC site plans to a committee of Community Board 1.

“Ground Zero,” said Speaker Sheldon Silver, “has been a showplace for people to get recognized.” Critics complained that Pataki had a penchant for feeding false expectations for the sake of self-glorification. “Ground Zero has been a showplace for people to get recognized,” said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat who frequently criticized Pataki. “The governor was always concerned with his picture and looking like he was doing something.” Offsite, however, Lower Manhattan was benefiting from billions of LMDC dollars to Downtown parks, street projects, and community and cultural institutions. From an MRI machine for Downtown Hospital to toilets in Washington Market Park, from the two-mile-long East River Waterfront Esplanade to the Tribeca section of Hudson River Park, improvement to Lower Manhattan could be seen nearly everywhere. Then there was the LMDC’s $8-billion tax-free Liberty Bond program that gave developers an incentive to create new housing and attract families to

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several featuring the governor—Pataki unveiled the cornerstone of the building, to be called the Freedom Tower. The tower, Pataki said, would open in 2008 or 2009. Two years later security concerns caused the tower plans to change, and the 20-ton cornerstone, a “symbol of strength and confidence,” as Pataki had called it, was in the way. It was hauled back to Hauppauge, L.I., where it was created. Nearly one year later, a more fortified tower with a broader base clad in concrete was proposed for the site.

At a public forum in July 2008 Hubert Edwards speaks to rebuilding officials. From left: Janno Lieber, head of WTC development for Silverstein Properties; Joe Daniels, president of the Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum; Robert Harvey, director of the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center; Avi Schick, chairman of the LMDC; and Chris Ward, director of the Port Authority.

Downtown. But it is a program, too, that to this day draws the anger of parent activists for failing to provide schools to go with the predictable rise in demand for many more classrooms. Aside from Silverstein’s success in building a new 7 World Trade Center by 2006, battles between the developer and the Port Authority over financing and insurance issues stalled progress on the World Trade Center site for years. (See page 38.) A mea culpa in October 2008 from Chris Ward, the Port Authority’s newly appointed executive director, and promised realistic (now referred to as “proba-

bilistic”) deadlines drew praise from many for his candor. “Today isn’t a ribbon-cutting,” Ward said before outlining the new deadlines and new cost, $1.3 billion more than first projected. “Today [we’re] simply stating the news. We now know what we are building, how we’re going to build it, who is going to bid it, when it can be done and how much it will cost.” The completion dates promised back then are holding, the Port Authority said recently: The transportation hub, spring 2014; Greenwich Street, end of 2012; Tower 1, spring 2013; the east-west corridor through the site, connected to a

Fulton Transit Center that will be completed in 2014. At a Community Board 1 meeting in July 2008, in advance of the Port Authority’s landmark report, six of the most powerful men behind the development of the World Trade Center site listened as one member of the public after another had their say. But it was Hubert Edwards from Midtown who seemed to speak for everyone. “This is the World Trade Center,” he said, his finger pointing, his voice booming. “You’ve got one shot to get this right. Please get it right.” ■

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One day a performing arts center may rise on the WTC site, but uncertainty over that dream remains f all the projects slated for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, there is one that doesn’t shows up on renderings of the finished site, one that is represented by a vacant patch of land. It is the Frank Gehry-designed performing arts center, a proposed 1,000-seat theater that, as yet, has one designated tenant, the Joyce Theater, and no fundraising arm so far to make it happen. “It’s my fervent hope that the city names the board and that we’re able to move forward and build the project,” Community Board 1 Chair Julie Menin said last month. “It is a signature legacy project for Lower Manhattan.” Nothing has been easy in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, but the cultural component has been star-crossed almost from the start. One hundred thirty arts organizations competed for the dream chance of moving into one of two arts buildings planned for the site, one designed by Snøetta and the other, a performing arts center, by Frank Gehry. In June 2004, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. chose the Drawing Center, the Signature Theater, the Joyce and a newly conceived museum dedicated to liberty around the world called the International Freedom Center (IFC). Less than a year later Gov. George Pataki proudly unveiled the design for a building that would house the IFC and Drawing Center. But just a month later the IFC drew fire from some victim’s family members as “un-American.” The next month the Drawing Center was attacked for having shown an exhibit that featured Abu Ghraib. By September, Pataki nixed both institutions. “We will not tolerate anything on that site that denigrates America,” he proclaimed. Next to go was the Signature Theatre. City officials cited costs and logistics for including the theater in the performing arts center. That center, to be sited where the temporary PATH station now stands, can’t go up until the permanent transportation hub is completed in another three years. In the meantime, there’s been money for infrastructure work to support it. And this year, at the urging of CB1, the LMDC released $100 million, formerly earmarked for Downtown utility work, to go towards the center. But there is a long way to go and even the final cost, said Menin, is uncertain. Michael Connolly, a CB1 member and advocate for the center, said that uncertainty, in fact, has long been the problem with getting the public behind a cultural center on the redeveloped site. “It has been so ill-defined and so far ahead in the future that it’s been hard to focus on,” Connolly said. “And until there’s something to rally around it will be hard to gather that kind of support.” ■

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Questions of Culture

In February 2004, heads of the four arts groups selected for the World Trade Center site pose together. Only the Joyce Theater, represented by Linda Shelton and the late Richard Lukins (front row on the right), is still included.

Family members of Sept. 11 attack victims protest in June 2005 against what they said was an injection of politics into exhibits at the planned International Freedom Center. Gov. Pataki soon abandoned the center.

Planning for Culture, in Fits and Starts Sept. 15, 2003 112 arts groups submit applications to be among four cultural institutions picked for the Trade Center site. Feb. 10, 2004 Joyce Theater and Signature Theater for a performing arts center at Fulton and Greenwich streets, the Drawing Center and International Freedom Center (IFC), to go in a cultural center on the memorial quadrant, are picked. Dec. 2004 The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation is created to raise $500 million for the cultural buildings. March 2005 LMDC president Kevin Rampe says the performing arts center is on schedule for completion in 2009. April 2005 Gretchen Dykstra is named president of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. At the same time, it is announced that the cultural components are not part of the initial $500 million funding. Instead, they are part of a “second phase,” creating the need for two capital campaigns. May 2005 Design for the cultural center, by the Norwegian firm Snøhetta, is unveiled.

June 8 2005: Debra Burlingam, sister of the pilot of the American Airlines jet that terrorists crashed into the Pentagon, stirs an uproar in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, condemning IFC as un-American. June 24, 2005 Daily News reports on Drawing Center shows that featured Abu Ghraib and other “anti-American” art.

June 24, 2005 Pataki orders LMDC to get guarantees from cultural institutions that they will not produce programs offensive to the families of victims and to visitors. “We will not tolerate anything on that site that denigrates America,” he said. July 2005 A letter from IFC organizers to the LMDC promises no “blame America” exhibits. They state: “We are proud patriots.” July 2005 Anita Contini, the LMDC’s director for cultural programs, resigns. Aug. 2005 LMDC commits

$50 million toward the Frank Gehry-designed performance center, estimated to cost eight times that. Sept. 2005 Pataki orders the IFC off the site. Nov. 2005 LMDC will give the Drawing Center $150,000 to find an alternate Downtown home. June 2006 Port Authority announces that a temporary PATH Terminal will occupy a portion of the performing arts building site while the permanent Calatrava station is under construction. March 2007 City announces that the Signature Theater will not be in the performing arts center but in a rebuilt Fiterman Hall. Aug. 2007 Signature Theater’s plans for Fiterman Hall fall through. April 2008 LMDC chairman Avi Schick floats the idea of combining the performing arts center with the Fulton Street Transit Center. The idea is later abandoned. July 2008 Schick says $5 million of the $55 million allocated for the center is going toward its planning and design. “The rest of it is waiting for the moment we can identify the place and time and site.” he said. Jan. 2010 Officials end uncertainty over siting of the center, saying it will go next to 1 WTC building as planned. Oct. 2010 LMDC votes to redirect $100 million in utility funds to kickstart the project.

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Silverstein’s Properties It was a rocky road for Larry Silverstein and his grand plans for rebuilding towers on the WTC site he ink had barely dried on Larry Silverstein’s 99-year lease of the World Trade Center when the terrorists struck. The years that followed brought colossal development plans and progress-stunting squabbles, real rebuilding headway and lingering questions over demand for 10 million square feet of office space in what will be five commercial towers. That site was still smoldering when the developer’s battles began, first with insurance companies over billions of dollars in payouts. And in his first bitter clash with the Port Authority, rooted in the distribution of nearly $3 billion in insurance proceeds, Silverstein turned over ownership of Tower 1 (still only on the drawing board) to the Authority. Later that year, he would unveil design schemes for his Towers 2, 3, and 4 by the firms, respectively, of Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki. Tower 1, in the meantime, would go through two redesigns and a name change (exit “Freedom Tower”) before it began to rise in 2008. Before Silverstein could build, the Port Authority had to ready those sites, and that work lagged. As a flagging economy set in, Silverstein said he needed to renegotiate his agreement with the agency. Squeezed by tight credit markets and faced with rising commercial vacancy rates in the summer of 2009, he wanted the Authority to back financing for Towers 2 and 3. “That we are where we are after this much time is an embarrassment to our city, our state and to the nation,” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said in May 2009. Yet despite Silver’s involvement in the talks, along with the mayor and the governor, it would be more than a year before an agreement was reached. Silverstein wasted no time in rebuilding 7 World Trade Center, across Vesey Street from the site. Just eight months after fire from the collapsing towers destroyed the original 7 WTC, he revealed architect David Child’s design of the 52-story shimmering glass tower. It opened in 2006. On the Sept. 11 anniversary, Tower 4, at the site’s southeast corner, is expected to have risen to nearly half its 72floor height. But his Towers 2 (88 stories) and 3 (53 stories) are still only on their way to street level, awaiting the day when the market can absorb all that office space. Silverstein professes no doubts that the day will come. “By 2016 we should be out of here,” he said recently. “This should all be done.” ■

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Following a presentation by the architects of Tower 4 in 2006, Larry Silverstein peers through the proposed glass that would be one of the major features of the building. That glass now clads a large portion of the building, which in September will have risen to nearly half its 72-story height and is expected to be completed in 2013.

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he 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, arrives with the World Trade Center site years away from completion. Still, the pace of progress these days by the Port Authority and Silverstein Properties, following torturous legal battles, bickering and delays, is so rapid that still photos can’t do justice to the changing face of the 16 acres. Nor is it possible to capture the complexities of coordination and the hidden intricacies of infrastructure work that, finally, will pump life into this jigsaw puzzle of projects. There are, of course, the signature elements of the master plan: The four office towers (two of which will only rise when the real estate market allows), the transportation hub and the September 11 Memorial & Museum. But they are only part. Work is underway on the two streets, Greenwich Street (fully visible in the most recent photo below) and Fulton Street, that are being extended and will crisscross the site. Sixty feet beneath the new Fulton Street, progress is well along on the 270-foot-long east-west store-lined

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…and a Site on the Rise T corridor that will hook up with the tunnel from the Fulton Transit Center (also 270 feet long) and, across West Street, entry to the World Financial Center. Beneath what is to be a new section of Greenwich Street is the #1 subway line that, implausibly, Port Authority engineers managed to keep running while workers excavated beneath its concrete-clad tunnel. That feat has allowed for work on the transit hub, the

Memorial plaza and other parts of the rebuilding to go on—above, around and underneath the active subway. “In 30 years, this is the most complicated job I’ve ever worked on,” said Bob Petrides, the engineer in charge of the project. Indeed, there is little about this rebuilding that is not complicated. The photos below can only scratch the surface.

The Rebuilding: Snapshots Through the Years

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AUG. 2005 The site is much as it had looked since 2003. That year the “cleanup” had been completed, the PATH tracks (A) were rebuilt and a temporary PATH station (B) on the west side of Church Street went into operation. The ramp (C) was used to carry debris from the site. The #1 subway line continued to run through the site (D).

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MARCH 2008 The slurry wall of the eastern “bathtub” (C) is complete and excavation for Towers 4, 3 and 2 (D, E & F) by the Port Authority is ongoing. A new temporary PATH entrance (G) is in use while the first one (B) is being demolished and a third (H), on Vesey St., is constructed. Foundation for Tower 1 (I) is under construction and the walls of the underground east-west connector (J), between Tower 1 and the memorial plaza, are being built.

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JUNE 2009 Foundation for Tower 4 is rising (D) and dirt and rock that had supported tem-

AUG. 23, 2011 All projects are rising. Tower 4 (D) is at 48 floors, Tower 3’s concrete core

porary PATH station is being excavated (B). Tower 3 (E) site is caught up in Silverstein/Port Authority negotiations and Tower 2 site (F) is excavated and ready to turn over to Silverstein. Tower 1 (I) is a few floors above street level. The roof that will cover the east-west concourse and support Fulton St. is being built. Memorial’s four levels and pools (K) are taking shape.

(E) is under construction and steel columns form the perimeter of Tower 2 (F). The foundation slab for the transit hub (G) is complete and steel is being erected on the Vehicle Security Center (M). Tower 1 steel (I) is at 80 stories. The Memorial pavilion (L) has taken shape and the Memorial Plaza and pools (K), covering the PATH tracks, are nearly ready for opening.

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HOW WE REMEMBER From a few lit candles to soaring beams of light, from reading of the names to heavy moments of silence here has been no forgetting of Sept. 11, 2001, only different ways of remembering. In tears, prayers, and songs, in dozens of different ways, the annual day of remembrance has taken many forms. The names of nearly 3,000 victims, read by those who loved them and echoing for blocks from where they died, is the wrenching reminder of unfathomable loss. For Lower Manhattan residents, workers and anyone else with a personal connection to that day, places of remembrance are not confined to the 16 acres. “We were there, I mean right there,” said Steve Rosenthal, a Battery Park City resident, during one of the annual sunrise services in Wagner Park. As morning dawned, he pointed out to his wife, Keira, the fence which had separated them from the river during their escape from the cloud of dust. Rosenthal was among many who attended the services in Wagner Park, held on the first four anniversaries. In other ceremonies during the first years, Battery Park City residents gathered at sunset for song and reflection at the South Cove. This anniversary, for the first time in six years, they will gather again, at sunrise in Wagner Park. “Sometimes it’s all you need to be with your neighbors,” said Rosalie Joseph, who put together the earlier observances and now this one. Small gatherings, organized by Manhattan Youth, have been held annually at the Downtown Community Center for talk, song and poetry. “It was very traumatic for a lot of people down here,” said Townley, “and the way you deal with that trauma is through talking and getting the community together.” This year, plans have been afoot for what Community Board 1, the organizer, expects will draw thousands of participants. “Hand in Hand” calls for a human chain along the Hudson River waterfront on the morning of Sept. 10. Julie Menin, CB1 chair, said she hopes to revive the “commonality of spirit and generosity” that fol-

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lowed the attacks. Sometimes that spirit was expressed by hundreds, sometimes by a few. “People were asking me are we going to do anything for 9/11,” said Diane Lapson, the Independence Plaza Tenants Association president, as she sat outside her building, guitar in hand. Surrounding her on this evening of the third anniversary were her neighbors and fellow singers. That was enough for her. “I want to be out on the street—and happy,” she said. ■

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At the World Trade Center site, the family of Sept. 11 victim Kevin Williams attend the seventh anniversary commemoration of the attacks and the reading of victims’ names. This month’s ceremony may be the last in which the names are read.

On the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, C. Bangs hugs one of five surviving trees taken from the Trade Center site and re-planted near the Brooklyn Bridge.

On Sept. 11, 2010, firefighters from the Duane Street firehouse (Ladder 1, Engine 7) stand at attention and salute four times, marking the striking and fall of each tower and the loss of 343 comrades. “They may no longer be with us, but they will always be within us,” Lt. Michael Vindigni told his men.

Above: On Sept. 11, 2003, Battery Park City residents, led by Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and then-BPC Authority President Tim Carey, walked down the Battery Park City esplanade to the South Cove, for a ceremony. Left: On Sept. 11, 2010, the Rev. Daniel Simons led a prayer for peace at St. Paul’s Chapel, which had been a place of respite for recovery workers.

On Greenwich Street, Doris Borg led Tribeca residents to a candlelight vigil in Rockefeller Park. It was Sept. 11, 2002, when observances could be found most everywhere, from bubble-blowing at P.S. 150 to a string quartet performing on the rooftop of an apartment building at 109 Washington St.

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About 150 Battery Park City residents gathered in Wagner Park in October 2001 to honor the fallen firefighters from two Downtown firehousesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Engine 10 Ladder 10 on Liberty Street and Engine 4 Ladder 15 on South Street. The helmets of 10 of the 20 who died lay in a row, a kind of altar to which community members brought flowers, candles and tears. The people also came to thank the men from those houses, including Tom Ryan, shown here, who survived. Each firefighter stepped up to introduce himself and was greeted with applause. Many of them had come from the still-burning site, where they were helping with the recovery, and searching through the rubble for the dead.

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Exhibits feature videos and artifacts, such as fliers for the missing and the turnout coat and helmet of firefighter victim Jeffrey Ielpi. Lee Ielpi, his father (far right), is a Center founder.

AWay to Understand Years before there would be a Memorial Museum, the Tribute Center was the emotional link to 9/11 ow can the thousands of visitors who come to see the 16-acre Trade Center site make sense of it all? That was the question behind the founding in 2006 of the Tribute WTC Visitor Center by the Sept. 11th Families Association. “A million-plus people come to Ground Zero every year to look at a hole in the ground,” said Lee Ielpi, father of a firefighter killed that day and a co-founder of the Center. “What is out there for people to understand what happened?” Housed in a former deli at 120 Liberty St., the Center recalls the Sept. 11 attacks in human terms—through the words of survivors, the crackly, futile transmissions of firefighters, and heartbreaking footage from the “pile.” There are, as well, relics from the towers—a mangled dinner fork, a briefcase so battered it seems ancient—that, though silent, speak loudly and with brutal directness. Tribecans Harry Kendall and Joan Krevlin, husband-and-wife partners at BKSK Architects, designed the Tribute Center’s interior and exhibits, working closely with the Families Association. “It was probably the hardest project we’ve ever worked on,” Krevlin said. “Every decision, every photograph, every line had a very personal meaning for everyone who was involved. It was an intense process.” And a challenging one for a space many times smaller than what the Memorial Museum will occupy. But for its half-million visitors each year, the center manages to tell the story—of the towers as they had been, of the attacks in 1993 and 2001, and of the rescue and recovery effort. Victims are honored through family photos and memorabilia. Visitors are offered guided tours of the site by volunteers who have personal stories of that day to share. Until the Memorial Museum opens on Sept. 11, 2012, the center will be the visitors’ closest connection to the events of 9/11. Nicole Miller, from Oregon, summed up that experience simply. “This is what makes it real,” she said. ■

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Before the Tribute Center officially opened in 2006, more than 4,000 survivors and victims’ relatives came to see it, along with hundreds of others, including rescue and recovery workers. Among them was Jim Connor, above, an ironworker, who was part of the recovery operation. He also helped prepare a salvaged steel beam for display at the center. During his first visit, he gripped the edge of the mangled beam and wept.

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Two Brothers on Beach St. Parents win fight to have a corner of Beach Street co-named for two sons, both traders in Tower 1 t seemed a simple, bittersweet gesture hard to deny grieving parents. Victor and Mary Colaio lost not one but two sons on Sept. 11. Mark, 34, lived with his wife and two children at 260 West Broadway, which overlooks Beach Street. Stephen, 32, was to be married the following month and was going to live on Harrison Street. The brothers, both bond traders, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 104th floor of the north tower. In late 2003 the Colaios sent a letter to Community Board 1 requesting that Beach Street, between West Broadway and Varick, be co-named for their sons. “It’s a vibrant young neighborhood,” Victor Colaio told the Trib at that time. “Why shouldn’t they be recognized? They were part of it.” And why not? After all, by then 299 streets in New York City had been conamed for victims of the attacks. CB1 was sympathetic but wary. Already the board had approved a street co-naming at North Moore and Varick streets [see story below] and there would surely be more requests to honor the fallen. What then? “More people died than streets exist,” is how one board member put it. “Where do you stop?” Instead of approving the request, the full board voted overwhelmingly to place a moratorium on street co-naming. News about the board’s decision, along with a photo of Victor and Mary Colaio, appeared in the Trib. “Many people stopped me and said they were outraged. They felt there should be some recognition,” the father recalled. “They

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Above: In June 2005 Councilman Alan Gerson shows the Colaio family the street sign with the names of Mark and Stephen, to be mounted at the corner of Beach and West Broadway. In October 2003, Victor and Mary Colaio display a portrait of their sons Mark (left) and Stephen. They posed for the photo soon after Community Board 1 responded to their request for a street co-naming by voting for a moratorium on all co-namings.

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said, ‘You can’t give up on that.’” The Colaios did not give up. Nearly a year later, with a letter of support from Councilman Alan Gerson in hand, the Colaios returned to CB1’s Tribeca Committee to plead their case one more time. The opposition melted. “Every rule is made for an exception and this seems like a reasonable exception,” said committee co-chair Michael Connolly. It would be yet another year before the Colaios would see their sons’ names on Beach Street. But it happened. “This intersection will forever be known as Mark and Stephen Colaio Way,” Gerson said, presenting the sign to the family in June 2005. Mark’s children, too young to remember their father, reached out to touch it. ■

Firefighter Remembered n a blustery morning in April 2004, more than a 100 firefighters, friends and family packed into the Ladder Company 8 firehouse at the corner of a street that used to just be called North Moore. They had come to remember Lt. Vincent G. Halloran, who led Ladder 8 into the north tower on Sept. 11 and did not return. Following some heartfelt words, the street sign at North Moore and Varick was unveiled as “Lieutenant Vincent G. Halloran Street.” “The landscape of Lower Manhattan has significantly improved with the addition of a single sign,” Lt. James Donohue said. “You know, uptown in Central Park, they’ve got Strawberry Fields. Well, we’ve got our own corner down here now, and any time friends or family want to come down, especially when I’m working, they can toast his name under that sign.” Halloran, who was 43 and a 20-year veteran of the Fire Department, left behind a wife and five children. “He’s probably looking down at us today a little sheepishly, embarrassed about all this fuss about him,” said Lt. Larry Mack, describing his late friend as a humble man. “I think he would approve—for the kids,” Halloran’s widow, Marie, said. “They’ll be the ones coming down here one day with their grandkids to say, ‘This is where my father was.’” ■

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Outside Tribeca’s Ladder 8 firehouse, Vincent Halloran’s family, friends and fellow firefighters watch the unveiling of a sign declaring the co-naming of that corner of North Moore Street “Vincent G. Halloran Street.” Halloran was on the 30th floor when firefighters were ordered to evacuate the north tower. “Ladder 8 made it out,” said Lt. Larry Mack, “but he probably stopped to help someone.”

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Never Forgetting, For Generations To Come hey begin visiting by the thousands this month, to walk among the 400 swamp white oaks and sweet gum trees and to experience the rush of water as it cascades into great twin pools where the towers had stood. Some will come to run a finger along one of the 2,982 names etched in bronze on the sides of the reflecting pools; others will simply want to feel the sense of being there. The September 11 Memorial, which opens on Sept. 12, and the Memorial Museum, opening a year later, are expected to draw up to 7 million visitors annually. What the visitors will not see is how this $700 million, eight-acre monument came to be. It was a “humbling task,” as one Memorial juror put it: Choosing a design

that would resonate for generations, provide peace to grieving families, tell the stories of nearly 3,000 victims and pay tribute to the courage of rescuers. To find such a tribute, 13 jurors would spend five months wading through more than 5,200 design entries, in an open competition fraught with public bitterness and disagreements— like so many decisions over the development of the World Trade Center site. The jurors—artists and architects, representatives of the governor and mayor, a victim’s family member and a local resident—listened for hours at a public hearing to the grief and desires of the victims’ families and concerns of people who live Downtown. Should the memorial site be viewed as “sacred ground,” as some family members claimed, or as a well-inte-

grated part of a revitalized commercial and residential neighborhood, as some residents argued? Even as Michael Arad’s “Reflecting Absence” emerged as the winner among eight finalists, there were public outcries against the stark design, its random arrangement of victims’ names, and its cost, to name a few. The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which sponsored the competition, brought in landscape architect Peter Walker to add a verdancy to Arad’s stark concept for the plaza. The location of the names was also changed, and a complex algorithm was devised so that names could be grouped not randomly but by “meaningful adjacencies.” Meanwhile, Chief Curator Jan Ramirez and Assistant Curator Amy Weinstein were faced with a monumental

Many of the 5,201 entries in the international design competition conveyed deeply personal messages, such as the one at left by Buky Schwartz, Dani Schwartz and Gila Schakine of Tel Aviv, who conceived of “Tree of the Lost Souls,” a stainless steel replica of the World Trade Center bursting into leafy glory. The “Twin Together Towers Memorial” by Kshanti Greene of Albuquerque, N.M., evokes grief for lost loved ones and an appeal to embrace peace.

task: Sorting through the photos, films, oral histories, mementos and Trade Center rubble that would one day convey the Sept. 11 story. Within weeks of the attacks, Hangar 17 at JFK Airport had become a repository for carefully selected debris, eventually holding more than 1,000 items saved for possible posterity. Some of the artifacts were so massive—the twisted tonnage of steel and wrecked emergency vehicles—that their inclusion influenced design and engineering decisions for the museum. The 65-ton “Last Column,” and the 170-ton “Survivor Stairs” had to be put in place—and the building constructed around them. Weinstein was also charged with finding the people and the stories behind them. For Engine 21, for example, it was the last hours of William Burke, a fire captain who perished on the 24th floor of the north tower after choosing to stay with two workers, though he knew the south tower had collapsed and the north tower was next. Seventy feet below ground in the 70,000-square-foot museum, the fire truck will join a burned-out FDNY ambulance and a mangled rig from Ladder 3, a company that lost 12 members. For everyone who worked to bring the Memorial & Museum to life, each decision was laden with meaning and emotion. And, they knew, those decisions would determine how future generations of visitors will come to know the events of Sept. 11, 2001. “We are guided by a sense of mission,” Michael Arad said when he presented his plan in 2004, “to convey the enormous scale of the tragedy, its brutal impact on our lives and the collective response that we all had.” ■

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Left: Dwarfed by the one-acre north pool, a worker treks across the center chamber where water will drain when the pools are in operation. Four thousand gallons of water will cascade into the pools every minute. Above: Rendering of the Memorial plaza, with nearly 400 trees and reflecting pools. It is located in the very footprints of the towers. The site is between West Street and an extension of Greenwich Street.

Top: In 2008, 9/11 Museum curator Jan Ramirez stands beside one of the massive pieces of World Trade Center steel in storage at JFK Airport’s Hangar 17. She was in charge of choosing which of the many remnants would be displayed in the museum. Above: Among those pieces are these two Trade Center “tridents,” shown in rendering as they will look to visitors as they enter the museum pavilion.

Top: In June 2010, a worker keeps watch near the slurry wall on the west side of the memorial site, as sparks fall from the torch of a welder. Above: Rendering shows the exposed slurry wall in the completed main exhibition hall where the “Last Column” will be housed. Visitors will view the wall from behind a rail.

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Decorated with the insignias of police and fire departments and messages to lost friends, the 36-foot-tall “last column”— part of a steel beam that once rose from bedrock to the top of the south tower—became a makeshift memorial during the recovery and a sign of rebirth when it returned. Clockwise from above left: In a ceremony in 2002, workers prepare to move the column to storage; the steel was housed in its own climate-controlled room in a JFK Airport hangar; returning in 2008, it is lowered into place where it will stand as part of the Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum; sheathed in protective covering, work has gone on around it in the West Chamber; rendering shows the column, as museum visitors will view it near the slurry wall. ■

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Clockwise from left: The stairs as they looked days after Sept 11; they continued standing in place, the only aboveground remnant of the World Trade Center; carefully carved from the concrete slab that held them, the stairs were first moved from their original location on Vesey Street in March 2008. (In July they were lowered from street level into the southwestern corner of the World Trade Center site.); four months later they were hoisted again and moved less than 200 feet to what will be their permanent location in the museum.

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The ‘Survivor Stairs,’ the last above-ground WTC remnant, provided an escape for many who fled attered from the cleanup of the World Trade Center site, the 60-foot-tall “Survivor Stairs” are barely recognizable as the final steps to safety for workers fleeing the burning north tower. The once-smooth granite stairs, which led from the Trade Center’s Austin J. Tobin Plaza to Vesey Street, will be on display in the Sept. 11 Museum, a symbol of those who survived. But it was only through the efforts of a few that the steps from the 170-ton remnant, the last above-ground remains of the tower complex, managed to survive. “What’s the point of preserving it?” said Tribeca resident Richard Zimbler, acting president of the WTC Survivors Network back in 2006 as he viewed the stairs from behind a construction fence on Vesey Street. “The point is so we can tell the story to future generations.” Despite its beat-up appearance— only the upper 12 steps remain intact— the surviving section of the staircase was largely unharmed on Sept. 11. Its wrecking resulted from the recovery operation at the site. The Metropolitan Transit Authority halted the demolition of the stairs only because the structure was an access point for the rebuilding of the 1/9 lines. “Looking at it, I feel the weight of history, and the sadness,” said Zimbler, who led the fight to save the steps. “But at the same time it also has beauty to me. It’s so symbolic of strength and the will to survive.” The stairs, located on the north edge of the 16-acre void, stood where Larry Silverstein’s Tower 2 would be built. Some suggested that the remnant stay where it was, or be moved and eventually incorporated into the structure. It was a proposal that seemed absurd to some members of Community Board 1. “It’s crazy to believe, as some preservationists do, that this huge hunk of undistinguished rubble is going to remain in its current location and Tower 2 must be redesigned to accommodate it in the lobby,” CB1 member Bill Love said in 2007. At one point, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. proposed demolishing all but a few of the treads and placing them at the entrance to Tower 2. A compromise was reached. The stairs were cut from the concrete structure that had supported them and, in December 2008, trucked to where the Sept. 11 Museum would eventually be built around them. “Any time you see an authentic artifact that was here on that day,” said Museum President Joe Daniels, “it really makes you stop, take a breath and think about what happened.” ■

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Fritz Koenig’s Sphere was the centerpiece of the Trade Center plaza since it opened in 1971. It rose above a fountain designed by WTC architect Minoru Yamasaki, in a plan inspired by the grand Mecca mosque.

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The Sphere lies amid the rubble before it was removed and stored, along with other debris, in a Kennedy Airport hangar. Only the base was missing, cut away and removed by workers during their fervor to clear the site.

The sculpture, installed in Battery Park in March 2002, is a popular site for tourists. At the time, it was thought the Sphere would someday return to a rebuilt World Trade Center but its future home is uncertain.

Reassembled in March of 2002, the former WTC sculpture now serves as a symbol of resilience he brass and steel orb standing today in Battery Park was for 30 years the centerpiece of the World Trade Center’s plaza. It was unearthed, battered and broken, from beneath the wreckage of the south tower. Six months later, the Sphere was standing again, this time in Battery Park at a temporary memorial. “[The Sphere] endured the attacks and now is a stirring tribute to the courage of those we lost and a reminder of the resiliency of the American spirit,” Mayor Bloomberg proclaimed during a dedication ceremony in March 2002. To this day, the Sphere remains a popular attraction for tourists, especially on Sept. 11 anniversaries. But to neighborhood residents and others who remember the Sphere before it became a memorial, its long presence in Battery Park hints at something else—the disappointments, setbacks and broken promises that have plagued the rebuilding of the site over the past decade. It was installed in the park to great

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A portion of the artwork is hoisted and put in place. In the week before its dedication in Battery Park, ironworkers labored 12 to 16 hours a day to prepare the sculpture, including fabricating a new base. Left: Artist Fritz Koenig holds the maquette, the only reference throughout the installation that workers had for accurately realigning the dismembered pieces.

fanfare, but even then it was thought that the bronze sculpture, created by German artist Fritz Koenig, would one day return to the World Trade Center site. But not one group among those involved in the redevelopment—not the Port Authority, the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum nor Silverstein Properties—has expressed a desire to bring the sculpture back to the site. Next summer it will have to move from Battery Park to make way for renovations there. As yet no one knows where. “Its temporary home is a kind of exile, nearby but clearly outside the envelope of memory and honor and renewal that is the future Trade Center,” Catherine McVay Hughes, chair of Community Board 1’s World Trade Center Committee, said in 2009.

Even its “temporary” host seems to agree. “[The Sphere’s] real story is not a Battery Park story; it’s a World Trade Center story,” Warrie Price, director of the Battery Park Conservancy, told CB1 two years ago. “To really interpret it properly, it has to have a place of honor there.” That it stands at all today is a testament to the ironworkers and engineers— many of the same men who had been part of the recovery effort—who were able to piece it back together and build a new base to support its 221/2 tons. “We’re putting something back together as opposed to taking it apart,” Peter Rinaldi, a Port Authority engineer and architect of the cleanup effort, noted with satisfaction during its installation. Koenig supervised the resurrection

of the sculpture, often pacing around the park like an expectant father. A tiny but crucial maquette of the Sphere rarely left his hands. It served as the only reference for realigning the dismembered pieces. History not only destroyed the memory of the way the giant pieces of steel once fit so neatly together, but also the memory of what inspired it. As he watched the Sphere take shape again, Koenig could only speak about his work in aesthetic terms, noting that its spherical shape was meant to be in “dialogue” with the vertical towers. A Trib reporter reminded Koenig that his creation was said to symbolize world peace through commerce. Koenig shook his head. “It was never meant to symbolize world peace,” he said. “It’s too small for that.” ■

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In Commemoration of September 11, 2001 Ten years later we remember all those who are no longer with us and salute all the heroes who came together to make our City even stronger. The Downtown community remains as vibrant as ever, a testament to the spirit of all those who live here. - Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick and Staff

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Dear Friends and Neighbors: September 11 traumatized and tested the fabric of Tribeca’s vibrant community. In the wake of that explosive day we drew upon our resilience, healed our wounds and worked tirelessly to bring our neighborhood back from a truly heavy blow. As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the national tragedy with a local impact, we at Dudley’s Paw are grateful for Tribeca’s recovery and renewed strength. While we have lost some beloved residents and enterprises over the years, our community is still home to people and businesses that weathered the difficult aftermath and its consequences. We appreciate the broad array of support that has allowed us to still be here in the now burgeoning Tribeca where many newcomers have injected our environment with increased energy, excitement and opportunity. As a longtime resident and business owner, I am proud and very grateful to have been a part of the recovery – a unique history that has defined and reshaped this community for the past decade. To our long-term customers, I say thank you very much for the reliable patronage that has sustained us throughout the years. To our new customers we extend a warm welcome to the Dudley’s Paw family and thank you for trusting us to help care for your pets. Please know that we feel very fortunate to continue to serve all of you and hope that Dudley’s Paw will remain a destination for our wonderful furry friends and their owners for many years to come. Viva La Tribeca! Yvonne Fox and the staff of Dudley’s Paw 327 Greenwich St. 212-966-5167 Your Friendly Neighborhood Pet Supply Boutique Serving The Tribeca Community Since 1992

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The lights, a quiet ritual of remembrance, may shine for the last time on this Sept. 11 anniversary

Above: Because a Staten Island spotter has detected that one of the two “towers” is slightly fatter than the other, Gerald MacMillan “flags” each one until the spotter sees the offending one flicker. Right: Bob Schoenbohn checks the alignment of beams.

Paying Tribute, in Light

Clockwise from left: Before construction began on the Goldman Sachs building in Battery Park City, the Tribute in Light was installed in the empty lot. Many visitors would come Downtown to see the lights up close, to photograph them or just look up at them like stargazers; atop the Battery Parking Garage, all lights have been tested and they’re working properly; following the blowout of one of 88 7,000 watt lamps, a replacement is tested.

very September since the towers fell, two shafts of light—the Tribute in Light—have beamed four miles skyward from Lower Manhattan. Spectral and spectacular, the blue beams can be seen for 60 miles on a clear night. Tribeca resident Cynthia Vance recalls catching her first glimpse from her terrace on Hudson Street. “The two columns of light formed a heart. I swear,” she said. “Then two years later on a very clear night, I saw these little flecks of light shimmering in the beams. I realized they were birds attracted to the light. They were like souls, those birds.” Designed by six artists, the memorial to the victims of Sept. 11 was first displayed six months after the attacks, and was an instant success. “We wanted to somehow heal the Manhattan skyline. We wanted to help the city with these lights to get it through its darkest time,” artist Gusavo Bonevardi, a co-creator of the lights, said in 2002. The lights were first produced on a lot in Battery Park City (now the Goldman Sachs building), where wide-eyed crowds congregated near the 88 xenon lights, each a mighty 7,000 watts. The production, with its crew of 30 electricians, lighting technicians, stagehands and production aides, has since moved to the roof of the Battery Parking Garage on West Street. There they install the lanterns and make the delicate adjustments that produce the final pair of perfectly focused towers of light. “None of this process is computerized,” said production manager Michael Ahern. “It takes human hands and human eyes to get everything to look straight.” The lights could dim forever after this September if the Municipal Art Society, which oversees the Tribute, cannot raise the funds. That would be a shame for those who appreciate its bright yet quiet expression of remembrance. “There are no damn speeches,” said Ahern. “I like that.” ■

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“We wanted to somehow heal the Manhattan skyline. We wanted to help the city with these lights to get it through its darkest time.” —ARTIST GUSTAVO BONEVARD CO-CREATOR OF THE

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