downtown express
Ten Years Later - A 9/11 Retrospective
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Zero • E.P.A. to change dust plan after rebuke • Slow-moving path to W.T.C. retail
2005
• Resident: Mostly signs of hope looking across the W.T.C. • Update: Getting ready to begin building the W.T.C. memorial • Governor’s Downtown Manager: Downtown progress is real and steady • L.M.D.C.: A ‘better and stronger’ Downtown is being built • C.B. 1: Residents need retail and culture on Downtown’s front burner • Construction Commander: Working to reduce the pain from $20 million worth of construction • Downtown Alliance: New incentives will insure Downtown remains the financial capital • Fiscal Watchdogs: Let the free market and public decide Downtown’s future • Chinatown Partnership: Chinatown begins to build on the unity that came after 9/11
• New report says Downtown office market is rebounding • Downtowners, scientists, Clinton blast E.P.A.’s new testing plan • Open up to closing off Cortlandt St. • Memorial fountains will run dry in winter •
Panel scientists tee off on widely criticized E.P.A. plan • Arts community reflects on cultural loss at the W.T.C. • British
architect returns to W.T.C. to design new Church St. tower •
Mayor’s redevelopment
Volunteer Simone Cornu puts post-9/11 disaster training into practice •
delay
threatens W.T.C.
TriBattery Pops march across West St.
Protestors of the Iraq war demonstrate in front of the Millennium Hilton Hotel in Lower Manhattan on the fourth anniversary of 9/11 — an annual ritual that has lasted throughout the years.
Battery Park City resident Tom Goodkind leading his musical ensemble, the TriBattery Pops, across West St. in 2005. West Street and the pedestrian bridges were a topic of debate in the community then, and remain a contentious issue today.