TURNING THE TIDE
Downtown Bands Together to Be Better Than Ever in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy
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ess than six months after being ravaged by a marauding superstorm, Lower Manhattan is back in business. While many areas like the South Street Seaport continue to struggle with the impact of the storm, the majority of the Downtown community has shown a remarkably swift recovery with nearly all of commercial office space and hotel inventory reoccupied and retailers’ doors re-opened. In addition, the city, property owners and businesses have invested millions of dollars in safeguarding the community’s infrastructure for the future to minimize the impact of future catastrophes. The amazingly positive results speak for themselves and so do our friends, neighbors, business owners and leaders in this section that documents the hard work they put in to bring Downtown back online. —THE EDITORS SKYLINE IMAGES BY TONY SHI