downtown express
5
Ten Years Later - A 9/11 Retrospective
armory • No business at the Seaport • Parents need answers on the opening of
2001
P.S. 234 and P.S./I.S. 89 • A
five-block run to safety for teens and moms • Wagner Park reopens • Disaster poetry reading • Residents and
businesses frustrated over access issue • Pace University remembers • Gateway Plaza
Downtown parents worry about school space and air tenants make demands on Lefrak
•
• Soldiers draw on the spirit of P.S.•I.S. 89 • Soccer provides a relaxing escape for children • Small businesses band together to survive • Officials say ‘stuffy air’ may be causing headaches at Stuy • B.P.C. Authority, residents coping after Sept. 11 • Nadler warns of nuclear and other dangers • B.P.C. nursery struggles with reduced enrollment • Waiting to reach out and touch someone at Southbridge • Jerry, Bill and Hillary come out to support Tribeca • Park construction resumes despite delays on Pier 40 • P.S. 89 moves and East Side program is forced out • P.S. 234 parents debate returning • Some homeless were also displaced Sept. 11 • Clinton and Silver say thanks to Downtown Hospital • Police look to shrink ‘frozen zone’ and wall it off • Downtown water main project resumes • Utah town pitches in • Construction equipment stolen • What to build downtown? Planners and
Architects debate what to build downtown •
• Board hopes to revive produces mixed results • Ballfield
Fundraiser for local fire and police stations
park plan •
Downtown lobbying trip
construction still on track, B.P.C.A. says • Pataki announce $25
million
grants
•
Enrollment down at P.S. 89 and preschools • City turns P.S./I.S. 89 back to the Board of Ed • C.B.
1 sets conditions for school reopenings
•
Not everyone wants
to rebuild the financial center
Two planes, two hours and the Twin Towers are gone
The unforgettable images of Sept.11, 2001, like the one above, were splashed across front pages of newspapers all across the world.
• Trinity
Church reopens • Some
Burial Ground
artifacts rediscovered in W.T.C. • Air quality news: so far, so good • Checkpoint hassles continue for cars • Lice? What about anthrax, smallpox and asbestos? • Crowds return in smaller numbers to this year’s parade
Doubling up
After the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Villager and the Downtown Express put out a dual issue.
• Senate
approves $5 billion stimulus for New
York • Struggling to make it south of ‘ground zero’ • Businesses go to ‘one-stop shopping’ event for help • Con Ed to dig 5 miles of streets in 6 months • Air quality in Stuyvesant may be getting c
2001, continued on p.5