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Vol. VIII No. 2 OCTOBER 2001 HITTING HOME The story of terror, crisis and caring in our own backyard.

A SPECIAL ISSUE CARL GLASSMAN 2 THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 3

ANOTE TO OUR READERS

This month’s Trib looks different. Like our community, it has been transformed by the cataclysmic events of Sept. 11. While we have provided the latest and most important information available at press time (see page 47), this issue is less a newspaper than a kind of family album, a chronicle of who we are as a community and what we faced in the wake of last month’s horror. As we go to press, a cloud both metaphorical and real hangs over us. Many remain displaced; the livelihoods of our businesses are threatened; the near future of our schools and their programs is in doubt. We worry about the very air we breathe. Worst of all, not a few of us bear the loss of friends, family members, co-workers and neighbors. But the news is not all bad. This month, we also want to remember that in difficult times, our neighbors came together in countless acts of courage and kindness toward the rescue effort and toward each other. It is a privilege to be a community newspaper in such a community. Next month, the Trib will look the way it used to. Though none of us in Lower Manhattan, I suppose, will ever be quite the same. Carl Glassman, Editor

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TEXT FOR THIS SPECIAL ISSUE BY RONALD DRENGER AND CARL GLASSMAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARL GLASSMAN (UNLESS OTHERWISE CREDITED)

EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE BY APRIL KORAL, JESSICA RAIMI, ANNE KADET, PAMELA MARIN, BARBARA ARIA AND BRENT SHEARER

Seconds after Ameri- can Airlines Flight 11 explodes in Tower One, flames shoot from the gash in its facade and the first clouds of smoke billow skyward.

Greenwich Street was full of life on election morning, Sept. 11, with parents dropping The First Hours off schoolchildren, The First Hours electioneers out in force, and people strolling to work. The Where were you? What did you do? Who, God forbid, did you know? In the homes, crash of a Boeing 767 into World Trade schools and businesses closest to the carnage, the horror of September 11 left Tower One turned all eyes to a Lower Man- countless stories to be retold for years to come. Here are just a few. hattan skyline that was to be tragically changed forever. lenn Linder, 32, was in his apart- store’s owner, Jeremy and Julie Johnson rushed “I can’t tell you what I saw. I didn’t see any- ment at 40 Harrison Street when in to pick up their spaniel, Luke. thing like bodies. I saw shoes, I saw dust, I don’t he heard a rumbling. Soon the “They called to say everyone has to pick up know how many inches. My feet, my clothes, phone rang and a friend asked their dogs, and I ran from 50th Street,” said Jere- you couldn’t see.” how he was. “What do you mean, my. He told policemen on the sidewalk he was Urosevic was telling her story the day after, howGG am I?” he replied. getting his child from day care. “He’s like our on Greenwich Street outside Independence “Go look out your window.” child,” Jeremy said. “We had to get him.” Plaza. Still dazed, she fought back tears. “Hon- Linder rushed to his terrace and saw the ❖ estly, I would like if I lived somewhere else, at tower burning. He stayed there most of the day. Daniela Urosevic returned to her apartment at least I wouldn’t have to face this when I come “I thought, ‘We’re at war.’ And I stood there Rector and Greenwich streets after the second back, to see how everything is different.” wondering how many people had been lost.” plane struck. When Tower Two fell, ash and She looked back at the smoke billowing sky- ❖ debris turned the sunny morning into night. ward. “I can’t believe what I see. I’m just staring As always, Tuesday was Greenmarket day at Maybe it was a third plane, she thought. People at it. I can’t believe it’s the same place. I’m the World Trade Center. Tom Strumolo, the mar- rushed into her building to escape the dust and somewhere else.” ket’s manager and a Tribeca resident, was run- smoke. ❖ ning across the Brooklyn Bridge to the scene of “I didn’t know what was going on. I can’t go A squeal, then the muffled sound of crying the inferno when the first tower collapsed. The outside, I can’t open the windows, I can’t escape. broke the eerie quiet of early Tuesday afternoon farmers were a block from the site, his wife two And the smoke is going all the way in our build- on Hudson Street, just below North Moore. blocks away. He tried to phone but his cell, like ing. We couldn’t breathe.” With no running Tribeca resident Epp Hardy, a manager at Win- so many during those terrible minutes, went water, Urosevic dipped a towel into the toilet and dows on the World, had just run into a co-work- dead. He turned back toward the Brooklyn side placed it over her face. Bits of ceiling were er. Each was ecstatic to find the other one alive. as a man rushed by him. falling around her. When light finally began to After a long, tearful embrace, Hardy talked of “They won’t let you off on other side,” Stru- filter through the dust, she decided to make her running to the scene after the planes struck. molo told the man. way toward Battery Park City. “Randy [Hardy, her husband] said, ‘Don’t.’ I “I don’t care. My kid is on the other side.” just wanted to see somebody. They were trying “That did it for me,” Strumolo recalled later. to evacuate at that point. But nobody knew it “I turned around, we walked together.” was going to turn into this. Nobody. We were “You’ll have to arrest me,” Strumolo told the just looking and hoping...” cop at the barricade in Manhattan, and the two “I didn’t know what Nearby, workers who had been readying the men got through. new Issey Miyake flagship store at North Moore They paused for a moment and Strumolo saw was happening. I can’t and Hudson for a gala opening the following a look of horror appear on the man’s face, as evening sat on the steps outside the store, eating though he were suddenly comprehending that his open the windows, I lunch. They stared blankly in the direction of son in the tower was dead. Bubby’s, across the street. ❖ can’t escape. And the ❖ The police tried to evacuate The Wagging Kathrin Burmester and Joanne Mitchell Tail Doggie Day Care on Greenwich Street. smoke is going all the watched the towers burn from their apartment on “I’m staying,” Peter Perez, the manager, told the top floor of 17 John Street. When the first the cops. “I will be here with the animals until way in our building. tower fell, they heard debris fall on the roof of they’re all picked up or we have a proper evacu- their 15-story building. They dashed into the ation procedure. We’re not going to panic or lose We couldn’t breathe.” stairwell, where they met 10 other tenants rush- any dogs.” ing down. By the time they reached the sixth As Perez consulted on the phone with the CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 FER 6 HITTING HOME THE FIRST HOURS 7

(Left) Kathy Sussell, a family assistant at P.S. 234, and her daughter Emily, an I.S. 89 student, rush across Chambers Street following the collapse of the first Trade Tower. Fellow school worker Tara Doebele, at left, holds the hand of Joanie Abrahams, center, who follows close Gulnara Samoilova behind. got off one shot of (Below left) A dis- Tower Two as it traught Battery Park began to break City resident seeks apart (right). help from police fol- Earlier, as she lowing the collapse of arrived near the the towers. burning Towers, (Bottom) Near Fulton she photographed and Church streets, U.S. Marshall people caught in the Dominic Guadag- dust and fallout of the noli carrying away Trade Center head an injured woman eastward. GULNARA SAMOILOVA/ASSOCIATED PRESS ROBERT MECEA manager their story, he charged them full price. First Hours ❖ the paper flying. So I got up. It was still dark but good hands. It was a very difficult CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Gulnara Samoilova, a fine art photographer lighter than before and that’s when I started decision. I had a lot of guilt.” floor, the air was thick with dust.“Nobody knew and a photo retoucher and restorer for the Associ- shooting again. According to my film I did two There was pandemonium as staff what to do,” Mitchell recalled. “Should we go? ated Press, closed her blinds and tried to go back more shots and my film ended. But I don’t struggled to keep track of children Should we stay inside?” They sat in the stairway to sleep when she first heard the sirens outside remember changing the film and changing the going home. for a while, then decided to leave. They ran back her apartment in Southbridge Towers. But when lens. I shot about 20 frames as I’m walking “The parents were hysterical but the to their apartment, grabbed their wallets, bottled the sound did not let up, she switched on CNN towards home, and I’m looking behind and I see teachers were calm,” said Sarah water and two wet towels to protect their mouths and saw the Trade Center on fire. Throwing on one tower is gone and I see only one tower and I Bartlett, who has two children in the from the dust. Back down they ran. But the door- clothes and grabbing a camera, she ran up Fulton was totally, totally shocked.” school. “They were incredible.” She man and super stopped them. “You can’t go out,” Street and stopped at Church, just across the Back home, Samoilova felt her building took down as many cell phone num- said the men. “You can’t breathe out there!” street from the towers. “jump” as the second tower collapsed while she bers as she could from the children, They couple climbed back to a second-floor The injured were being led away. People in watched it on television. then ran to her home nearby on Reade lounge that was filled with dust, and waited with shock were walking toward her. Police and fire- One of the two rolls that Samoilova shot was Street to call parents to pick up their 20 others, including a family with a baby. They fighters were all around. Then she looked at the black and white and the AP had no facilities to MARY ALTAFFER children. As she left, kids were being held the towels to their mouths. Fifteen minutes Trade Center. develop it. She mixed a gal- herded past her to the basement. She remembers later the super told them, “Now you have to go.” “At first I thought it was just debris going lon of chemicals and them begging her to take them with her. He gave them polyurethane foam to protect their down, and then I saw legs and arms. I couldn’t processed the roll. With the As she returned to the school the first tower mouths. “We went outside and ran,” said stop staring at the towers because I couldn’t AP on the phone urging her fell. Police ordered the building evacuated, and Burmester. “There was nobody out there. The believe my eyes.” to get to the office immedi- teachers and parents began to lead the children streets were covered in dust, up to our ankles.” Then came “a horrible noise.” ately. She walked from up Greenwich Street toward P.S. 41 in the West They thought to head east to the river, but a “I snapped one frame when the building start- Southbridge Towers to her Village. With the collapse of the second tower, policeman yelled at them to run up Nassau Street ed collapsing and I realized it was coming down. office at Rockefeller Center, the group was separated when police ordered the toward City Hall. “We could hardly see any- I heard somebody scream so I started running, clutching the tank that con- children in the rear of the procession, along with thing,” said Burmester.”Our eyes were itching and GULNARA SAMOILOVA/ASSOCIATED PRESS but I wasn’t afraid, it was so surreal, like it was- tained her still-wet film. It Switzer, back into the building. The others were hurting. An emergency vehicle passed and kicked n’t happening. I’m not there.” took an hour and a half. Her left standing outside the Food Emporium, watch- up a cloud of dust that blinded us completely.” When Samoilova saw the police running photo of the tower breaking ing their school disappear into the dust. They As they reached Park Row, across from City P.S. 234 Principal away, too, she ran harder, believing that the apart (see opposite page) watched and waited until the outline of P.S. 234 Hall, the second tower came down, sending a tower was about to collapse in her path. Some- was one of the most dra- slowly reemerged through the haze. dense cloud of dust and debris up the north-south Anna Switzer’s voice on one ran into her and she fell to the sidewalk. matic and widely published ❖ streets. “People started yelling, ‘Run! Run! “I’m going to die right now,” she recalls think- pictures of the disaster. Alyssa Polack, principal of P.S. 150 in Inde- Run!’ and we ran,” Burmester said. “We thought the intercom was calm. ing. “People are going to run over me.” ❖ pendence Plaza, was standing on the plaza out- we’d get trapped in the cloud, but it dissipated Samoilova looked behind her to see the mon- The school year was GULNARA SAMOILOVA/ASSOCIATED PRESS side her school, greeting children and parents as when it reached City Hall Park.” “Will the teachers in strous dust cloud coming her way. She hid in just unfolding. Children were still settling into mother handed her infant to another mother, they arrived that Tuesday morning. Watching a They walked north, with no idea where they front of a car. She does not remember hearing new morning routines and more parents than Paula Harris, and started to cry. Her husband, she plane flying too low, she told an administrative were headed. “My office is next to Grand Cen- the classrooms on the the building fall, only the shhhhh sound of a ter- usual lingered in the schoolyard. said, had a 9 a.m. meeting in the Trade Center. assistant standing nearby, “That plane is going to tral, but I didn’t want to go near any landmarks,” rible wind filled with debris and smoke. On the intercom, P.S. 234 Principal Anna Over the intercom, Switzer told parents to go down.” Burmester said. They ended up at their hairdress- south side of the Unable to breathe, she began to choke. It was Switzer’s voice was calm. “Will the teachers in take their children home. “I thought it was a plane coming out of the er’s, in Soho—a basement shop where they felt so dark that she thought she had been buried the classrooms on the south side of the building “I went to my daughter’s room,” Harris sky and landing in the Hudson,” she recalled. safe. One of the hairdressers took the couple to building please close alive. In time, Samoilova saw the faint lights of please close your blinds,” she said, as five blocks recalled. “I looked back at the teacher with the What seemed like forever took perhaps ten sec- his West Village apartment and they started call- parked cars. She recalls someone asking if she away and in plain sight of the children smoke rest of the children. Do I stay and help or do I onds. Then the explosion. I saw all these parents, ing hotels. They found a room at the nearby your blinds.” was okay. “The next thing I remember is that it began to billow from Tower One. Parents ran leave? I needed to get my child as far away as with kids, screaming, with such terror in their Washington Square Hotel. Although they told the was so silent. The only thing I could hear was into the building. When the second plane hit, a possible and be safe, but I thought, they are in CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 8 HITTING HOME THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 9

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Firefighters battle flames at Ground Zero. ANDREA BOOHER/AP/FEMA LuckyLucky toto BeBe AliAlivvee Duane Street-based Engine 7 and Ladder 1 were among the first firefighters to enter Tower One after it was attacked. By miracle or quirk of fate, they were the only Lower Manhattan firehouse not to lose a man. This is their story.

n the morning of Sept. 11, the Chinatown. Inside the tower, it was slow going. Each fire- firefighters of Engine 7 and Lad- Office workers trying to escape were passing fighter carried 75 to 100 pounds of equipment. A der 1, based at 100 Duane Street, them. “I kept asking people, ‘Is there any fire on few firefighters took a brief break. Van Cleaf were checking a reported gas leak your floor?’” Engine 7’s Captain Tardio said opened his coat and poured a bottle of water over at Church and Lispenard streets. later. “We didn’t know what floor the fire was his head, to keep his body temperature down. AtOO 8:48, they heard a plane fly low overhead and on.” They heard mayday calls on the radio. People they watched it crash into Tower One of the Engine 7’s Joe Casaliggi started up the stairs, were having chest pains, possibly heart attacks. World Trade Center. but his mask malfunctioned. He returned to the They continued to climb. AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS They had been set to go back to the firehouse truck, where Spinard was working on the hose. Outside, sheets of glass fell and exploded on Vacate!’” Van Cleaf said. “That’s Firefighters from all over the to change shifts at 9:00. Instead, they jumped Casaliggi changed the mask’s cylinder but impact, sending shards flying. A piece of glass all I needed to hear. I dropped city rushed to the World Trade into their rigs and rushed down West Street, five couldn’t get back into the tower because of cut a hose line. Spinard and Casaliggi had to my tools and bolted down the Center as it burned. (Above) A team carries hoses near the men in the Engine, six in the Ladder. falling debris. Big chunks of aluminum and steel abandon the rig and take cover behind a column stairs.” ghostly remains of one tower, This was clearly a catastrophe, with many were crashing on the street. When the second of the North Bridge. They heard that a third A firefighter from another and (left) a group walks through people dead. Still, Engine 7’s captain, Peter Tar- plane hit Tower Two, more wreckage rained plane might be coming. downtown company later said wreckage on Church Street. dio, was confident. After the initial fireball, the down. Then people began to jump from the Then Tower Two collapsed. Spinard and that he’d heard the command to Three hundred and forty-three fire looked manageable, he thought. It would be upper floors. Casaliggi found refuge in an abandoned ambu- vacate hundreds of times in his firefighters died or are missing. a tough job, but they would walk up 80 flights, if “Joe watched my back while I hooked up to lance on West Street. years on the job and none of the necessary, and tackle it. the building,” Spinard recounted. “He warned Ed Fahey, from Ladder 1, was at the base of buildings had collapsed. When From Ladder 8 on North Moore Riding in the truck, Damian Van Cleaf, like me when bodies were coming down. It was like, Tower One when the other tower fell. He was he dropped his gear this time, he Street, 12 men had responded to his captain, believed that the best fire department ‘Okay, you’re clear,’ and I’d move forward. Then working that day as a battalion aide, assisting the figured he’d be back to pick it the first alarm and entered Tower in the country could put out this skyscraper he shouted that someone was falling. Ten or 15 battalion chief. He hugged a wall and prayed. up and climb higher. One. Eleven got out. Lt. Vincent blaze. Van Cleaf, 29, a member of Engine 7, was bodies landed near us.” Kurt Pritchard, another Ladder 1 man work- But the firefighters in Tower Halloran, father of five sons, is with Ladder 1 that day, covering for another fire- One city firefighter was killed when a person ing that day as a battalion aide, was on the street One had about 12 minutes to get missing. He may have been caught fighter. falling from the tower landed on him. next to the towers. He dove under a car. He out before it “pancaked.” in the lobby. His buddy, Nicky, yelled to him: “This is ter- ended up in the hospital after the car was hit by The evacuation was orderly, “He was right behind me,” said rorism. They’re attacking us.” falling debris and collapsed on top of him, injur- according to Tardio. There was Ladder 8’s Dan Murphy, who left “Would you relax?” Van Cleaf told him. “It’s ing his back. no panic. But it felt like a long RONALD DRENGER the tower about 20 seconds before an accident.” The firefighters in Tower One had been inside time getting down to the lobby. Spinard thought the men from his company it collapsed and had to outrun falling debris. “I The two rigs were among the first to reach If fighting the blaze for an hour. The men from Engine 7 had reached Most of the men still didn’t know that Tower had been caught inside and were all dead. He don’t know why he didn’t make it out.” the World Trade Center. Black smoke billowed the 30th floor, along with five firefighters from Two had fallen. But when they got outside, they wandered dazedly near Chambers Street, looking Of the five men from Engine 6 who were from the tower. Tommy Spinard, the driver of and rescuing trapped Tribeca’s Ladder 8. Ladder 1 was on the 21st saw the rubble—parts of the tower’s metal skin, for other firefighters. Incredibly, he started find- inside Tower One, only one got out. Engine/Lad- Engine 7, with the company almost eight years, floor. They had checked every floor; all were huge pieces of steel, chunks of concrete. They ing guys from his house, one by one. “It was like der 10 lost 4 firefighters. They had been less parked right in front of Tower One. Ladder 1 workers meant vacant. saw their rigs, Engine 7 and Ladder 1, flattened. a dream,” he said. “It was so good to see the than 10 floors above men from Engine 7 who pulled up next to him. Some men from Engine 10 had reached the To Van Cleaf, the trucks looked like crushed guys. It was unbelievable.” escaped. Some of the firefighters’ bodies were Ladder 8, from the North Moore Street fire- climbing up 80 flights 37th floor. While Ladder 8 hadn’t found a work- Tonka toys. It was two hours before the men from Engine found in a stairwell. Engine 4 and Ladder 15 lost house, Engine 6 from 49 Beekman Street, ing elevator, Engine 10 got a ride to the 16th No one was around. They thought Spinard 7 and Ladder 1 who had responded to the first 11 men. Engine 4 and Ladder 15, based on South Street, of stairs, the floor, giving them a head start. and Casaliggi had been crushed. Van Cleaf said a alarm at the World Trade Center found one The firefighters caught in Tower Two, which and Engine 10 and Ladder 10, based on Liberty The building shook. “It was a rumbling like I prayer and ran. The others did the same. Seconds another. collapsed first, had no warning. Street, were also on the scene early. firefighters were had never heard before,” Van Cleaf said. They later, Tower One disintegrated. In the meantime, firefighters from companies “Why am I here?” asked Captain Tardio of Spinard stayed with the truck to hook up a thought it was an explosion. But a battalion chief Spinard and Casaliggi were still inside the across the city who were on their days off had Engine 7, at dinner in his firehouse four nights hose to the building while the other men from prepared to do it. got word on his radio that Tower Two had col- ambulance when the second tower fell. They descended on Lower Manhattan, grabbing what- later. “Luck? Fate? Why am I alive? We all have his company rushed into Tower One. They start- lapsed. abandoned it and ran as fast as they could into ever gear they could find at local firehouses to feelings of guilt. I think about it a lot.” ■ ed upstairs and met up with a fire company from “We heard, ‘Urgent, urgent, urgent! Vacate! Battery Park City and up North End Avenue. help at the disaster site. 12 THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 13

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We would like to express our sympathy to With a four-year-old at her side, she whiled away those endless first hours everyone affected by the World Trade Center watching cartoons, doing puzzles and making believe life was still normal. tragedy as well as our gratefulness to all who have helped and continue to help A Mother’s Story during this time of grief and rebuilding. BY PAMELA MARIN We were running then, hundreds of us, thou- prints, like in the snow…” We are fortunate to be able to offer a full class sands on the streets around. Big happy problem-solving mom: We had a e’d done what we needed to I ran home, and my husband left to get Cal project. We had something to do. schedule beginning October 1st do—the morning fire drill, I from school. We’ve gone over that moment, that We went to the kitchen. Lily stood on a chair used to call it. Cal had gotten decision, dozens of times since, while the kids and we soaked paper towels and squeezed them in our beautiful, newly renovated studio. up and read an Archie comic sleep, while the muted TV news flashes at us: out and carried them from window to window. book, eaten breakfast and How could we have split up? What were we After we’d written our names on a windowsill we harassedW his little sister, Lily, brushed teeth, thinking? wiped it clean. Then started again on the next Time is the healer of all wounds. dressed. He had hugged and kissed Lily until she We thought it was over. We thought the worst one. shrieked “Ow!” Then he headed out for his fourth was over. I tried to reach my husband’s cell phone for day of third grade. My husband had put Cal on Alone with Lily now, I watched as TV reporters the hundredth time. I sneaked a look at TV news, We invite you to experience the strength the school bus, and gone for his morning jog. explained that the World Trade Center or New to see if we’d been nuked. Lily studied the TV At last the apartment was quiet. Lily and I York City or America was being attacked—that the reporter fronting smoking rubble. “He’s a really of peace found through yoga. opened windows to the clear autumn air. Leaving death five blocks away and the terror on the streets nice guy,” she concluded, “but the airplane guy breakfast dishes in the sink, we settled on the all around was the death and terror of war. was a bad guy.” couch with Henry and Mudge and the Forever I learned from TV that the police were evacu- Sea. I pointed at the words as I read to my four- ating the city below Canal. The reporter said that BIKRAM year-old, asking her to spell a word every few he had been posted at North Moore but he and his MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN 26 postures sequenced to move freshly oxy- sentences. Henry’s pink-cheeked father was riding “It’s okay, sweetie,” I crew had moved back to Canal because “police genated blood to 100% of the body, restor- a wave to shore when we heard the whistle of a said some gas lines might have been hit and ing the body’s systems. Sessions are held in 7–8:15 a.m. Vinyasa Bikram Vinyasa Bikram Vinyasa jet and a muffled bang. Then it was quiet again. heard myself tell my methane gas leaks might be a risk now.” He said, a heated room. This promotes flexibility, I read on, thinking, a plane hit something. I “Thousands of people are running north on West reduces injury, and accelerates detoxification read on, in our sunlit nest, four stories up and five four-year-old. “Let’s Side Highway.” 10–11:30 a.m. Bikram Bikram Bikram Bikram Bikram Bikram Bikram of the body. Newcomers, as well as sea- blocks north of what we now call Ground Zero. We clicked to “Blue’s Clues.” Steve and his soned practitioners, are encouraged to take Was it a crash? As long moments passed, my cartoon dog were playing “the cloud game.” Lily the BIKRAM BASICS classes on Saturdays just close the windows thoughts flew to the sonic booms of my child- picked out a puzzle of an airport and pointed at and Sundays. All levels welcome. 12–1:15 p.m. Bikram Innermotion Bikram Innermotion Bikram Bikram Basics* Bikram Basics* hood, those barrier-breakers blasting through the and, geez, look at all the only building in the peaceful scene, a low-rise VINYASA Sixties, broadcasting the promise and power of steel-and-glass terminal building. “I think that’s science and technology, the great American future 2–3:30 p.m. Bikram Intro to Vinyasa A powerful flow of Suryanamaskar (sun this crazy dust!” where they crashed,” she said. On TV, a cloud series) and hatha postures moving with the coming at us kids faster than the speed of sound. caterpillar re-formed into a butterfly. ujaii breath. This derivation of the eight-limb I was still reading to Lily when my husband My daughter was crying. I became very calm. After the second cosmic boom, we packed a 4–5:30 p.m. Bikram Vinyasa Bikram Vinyasa Bikram Bikram Bikram ashtanga system offers a different sequence came home from the run that he rerouted daily. We clicked the TV from CNN to a cartoon about bag. That was our project. My calm narrator voice of asanas (postures) each time. First timers This morning, he’d sprinted to his finish on the a big, happy problem-solving turtle. Franklin was had taken over again, but I was less convinced by are encouraged to take our INTRO TO plaza outside the Winter Garden. learning how to share. Lily and I resettled on the it, and so was Lily. 6–7:30 p.m. Bikram Bikram Bikram Bikram Bikram Vinyasa Bikram VINYASA offered every Sunday. “Was that—” couch. When she felt better, we pulled a stack of “Is that the last boom, Mommy?” she asked, INNERMOTION™ “A plane hit the Trades,” he said. He stayed puzzles onto the rug and started working while arms and legs tightly around me, her mouth inch- 8–9:30 p.m. Bikram Bikram Vinyasa Bikram Special class** Working from the inside out, realign your with Lily while I ran outside with a pad and pen. we watched cartoons. es from my ear. physical structure and release old patterns. I saw what we saw, hundreds of us out on We were in the bathroom when the first terri- “Let’s go help the firemen,” she said. Develop core strength and improve flexibility West Broadway, thousands of us on the streets ble crash came—the cosmic boom. As our build- When the dust settled the second time, she *Saturday and Sunday noon classes are 90 minutes. ** Special class—call for details or check the website. while finding your balance. Beginners are around, our faces upturned to what we could not ing shuddered, I picked my terrified daughter off whispered, “I hope it bees over now.” welcome. understand. The black smoke plume on the North the toilet and carried her out into the apartment, As noon approached, the door buzzer finally Tower, billowing east. The horrible jack-o-lantern where all we could see through twelve large win- called us, and we ran to the intercom. orange burning in the upper floors. dows were the dusty bellies of white smoke “Mommy! Mommy! Guess what?” my When the first body dropped, strangers clouds. beloved son said. searched each other’s eyes, but we said very little. We heard screaming and sirens on the streets “We’re coming up to get you,” said my PRIVATE CLASSES, BODYWORK and MASSAGE available. Please call for more information. And then we turned our faces back to the sky. we couldn’t see. And I heard my own voice, a beloved husband. I didn’t see the second plane, just the fist of strange calm disembodied thing, quietly narrating And they did. We four walked downstairs Yoga mats required in all classes. Large towel and water are needed in Bikram classes. fire punching through the South Tower, a nuclear to the daughter who clung to me. “It’s okay, together and headed north. Wear comfortable light clothing. Come well hydrated and avoid heavy meals two hours before practicing. bloom, red and orange and black, carrying the sweetie, let’s just close the windows and, geez, ■ Be safe and considerate by arriving on time building’s metal bones and dropping them like look at all this crazy dust! We’ll get this all confetti. cleaned up. What a mess! Look, I’m making foot- Pamela Marin writes the “Motherland” column and enjoy your yoga experience. No pre-registration or membership is necessary. for The Tribeca Trib. Towels and yoga mats are available for rental.

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Our deepest sympathies Like many high school students in lower Manhattan, William Winkelman, a 14-year- to the lost and injured, old student at Stuyvesant High School, was suddenly all alone and running scared. and our gratitude to those who so valiantly gave of themselves A Student’s Story in the rescue effort.

BY WILLIAM WINKELMAN All of a sudden, the side of the burning rity of the building and going into the smoky air building seemed to flake right off and dust cov- outside. As we made our way down the stairs, Let us now breathe life was looking at the letter “E” under a ered everything. No one could see what had someone tripped and no one helped her up. She microscope and drawing what I saw. It happened. The electricity flickered and the tele- scrambled up and continued. back into our unique neighborhood. was my first full day of science lab and vision blanked out. We thought that there was Outside, on the north side of the building, I had been looking forward to it. As I another bomb on the ground floor. Then I saw everything seemed normal until we rounded the Let us look forward to the future. finished my last drawing I heard a plane the building kneel and melt—like the witch in corner. The air was full of thick smoke coming IflyI close to the school. I looked out the window “The Wizard of Oz.” from the south. We could hardly see the bridge and saw a jet flying straight for the World Trade A thick gray wall of dust and debris shot crossing the street to our school just a few feet Center just down the street. down the street toward our building. People out- away. We began to run north, up the side of the When it hit, the whole school shook. Above side ran screaming, scared, breathless, to get out Hudson River to safety. Policemen were every- the front blackboard the television screen flick- of the way, tripping and falling over one another. where, telling people to pick up the speed. ered even though it was not on. From the win- Some sought refuge in our school, stopping for a I had no idea where to go. I didn’t know if I dow, I saw flames shooting out either side of the breath of air and a moment of safety before con- should go home, which was just a few blocks tower as the fuel ignited. It looked like a scene tinuing. away. I could only see dust covering the street that was missing from “Independence Day.” around the corner from my house. I decided to try Our teacher started crying and told us all to to stop by home but I wasn’t allowed to cross the keep working. She closed the shades, which did- street by the police. 129 DUANE STREET 212-227-7500 n’t help because you could see through them. “Our homeroom I continued north to see if I could find my (BETWEEN W. BROADWAY AND CHURCH) Then she left the room and told us she would be mom at her office a half-mile north. When I got back soon to help anyone who needed it. teacher didn’t show there, I looked around for someone I knew or TUESDAY TO SATURDAY 11–7 As soon as she left, another teacher ran into even a teacher I could talk to, but I couldn’t find the room to take a look. She started screaming up. When an anyone in the crowd. I wasn’t sure if we were all and yelled for everyone to stop working and to going north to Chelsea Piers but I knew I wanted come look out the window. We rushed over to announcement was to find my family. look. When everyone calmed down and got back I finally found a teacher. She told me to find a in their seats, no one could work. One kid took made to evacuate friend’s house to stay at because soon no one Our hearts go out to all our out a radio and we all listened to the broadcast. would be allowed to leave Manhattan. She friends and neighbors during Many kids burst into tears. the building, no one seemed panicked. I left the crowd and went to Then we saw the second plane hit. The kid look for my mother. this time of tragedy. We will In TriBeCa next to me screamed and said he saw people knew what to do.” Then I decided to go home. I was the only jumping but I didn’t believe him. The principal one walking south, moving toward the disaster. I get through this together. is where the Art is… came over the P.A., telling the school to stay had to weave in and out of the crowd. As I got HOME calm. We were to continue our day as normal closer to home the people were moving faster The newest HOME for art is the 90 Hudson Street Gallery of and the only change would be that everyone had I had lunch next. “Why hadn’t we left?” I and some were even running. Hundreds of sirens WE ARE OPEN! Douglas Elliman Real Estate, to eat inside during lunch. The whole time all I kept asking myself. Once we were surrounded it were sounding. At home I found my mom in a was thinking about was other kids like me who wouldn’t be safe to leave. From the cafeteria, I panicked state and teary-eyed. We were united OUR TEMPORARYENTRANCE IS AROUND THE CORNER displaying works of art by the following Douglas Elliman brokers to benefit the Church Street School for Music and Art: had just lost a father or mother in the accident, couldn’t see anything and I felt vulnerable, not and would not soon part. ON JAY STREET and I thought about what would happen if I lost knowing what was going on outside. Now when I try to fall asleep, the sounds of COME SEE OUR WONDERFUL SELECTION OF Elaine Bedell Ruth Hardinger Abbe Pearl my parents. We were supposed to be having homeroom the city—loud bangs, the sound of a plane over- In my next class a group of kids near the cor- but our teacher didn’t show up. When an head or sirens going by—hold a new meaning for FRESH PRODUCE • CHEESE • DELI MEATS Julia Camacho Avril Levinsohn Dennis Rano Bill Costigan Sylvia Morton Beth Roberts ner window watched the fire with fascination. announcement was made to evacuate the build- me, one of uncertainty, fear. 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Two nights after the World Trade Center was attacked, a Tribeca resident sacks out in a Red Cross shelter located in the library of Washington Irving High School. TheThe DisplacedDisplaced Nine thousand people were evacuated from Battery Park City, thousands more from Tribeca. People who never thought they’d be homeless went to shelters or checked into hotels. Most were welcomed by friends and even strangers.

omewhere around Rector Place, Bat- then went to the shore. When their kids’ school ❖ tery Park City resident Robin Forst started, they came back to town and checked into Five days after the terrorist strike, more than lost her race with the disaster’s ugly the Gramercy Park Hotel. 100 Battery Park City residents waited behind (Above) Elli Fordyce makes a trip back to her Rec- white cloud. Enveloped in dust and “We came back for the sake of the kids,” said police barricades at Pier 40. They would be tor Place apartment, which stands beside a lot barely able to breathe, she kept on Paul. “To get back to some normalcy. Out on taken to their homes to gather up what they filled with disaster wreckage. (Left) Ed Hardesty Srunning, the sound of panicked screams follow- Long Island they have no structure, nothing to could carry and get out again. Some stood moves belongings from his apartment in 600 S Gateway Plaza to the apartment uptown where he ing her all the way. Just south of the Waves do.” patiently as the wait stretched into hours. Others is living with his wife, Theresa, and two children. restaurant, the air cleared and there were police Of course, school hasn’t been normal, either. sat on the pavement or on folding chairs. The Hardesty, who was in a Trade Center subway sta- boats. A man yelled, “Women and children first,” Two of the children attend P.S. 234, which refugees swapped stories of the day they’d never tion when the first plane hit and soon found him- and Forst got on. She was coughing uncontrol- moved into P.S. 41 on West 11th Street. Their forget and listened to news from others who’d self in the midst of human carnage, said he lably and someone gave her water. When they other child attends I.S. 89, which has moved to a been “inside.” doubts his family will return. “We have a spectac- landed in Jersey City, construction workers lifted school on 17th Street. They’d come with questions: How long ular view of Ground Zero,” he said. “Who wants to see that?” each soot-covered passenger out of the boat. A The Liebermans’ apartment was in good would they have inside their apartments? What man with a Palm Pilot asked if she wanted to e- shape, with the windows closed and even the should they take? Was there electricity? Water? mail anyone, and she sent messages to her broth- electricity back on. Still, “We’re not sure what to When could they move back? Battery Park City resident Judy Fox Miller, who er, husband and niece. do with ourselves,” Paul said. “We can’t go “You won’t recognize South End Avenue,” was lounging in the lobby with her husband, In time Forst made her way to a friend of a home. We can’t cook dinner together. Yesterday said Terry Haman, 44, who has lived at 225 Rec- Alan, and son, Nathan. “When we needed to do friend where she stayed the night with two other after we picked our kids up from school, we did- tor Place for nine years. Haman had just returned the laundry, I said, I can’t spend $150 for laun- people from Battery Park City. As of late last n’t want to go back and sit in the hotel room. We from his home with a small bag of clothes and dry, which is what the hotel charges. Someone month, Forst and her family were living in a all walked in the rain, dropped our son off at his guitar when he stopped to chat with those called me back at eight in the morning to tell me hotel, still unable to go home. Four buildings in gymnastics, and wandered around.” still waiting. someplace where they charged by the pound.” Gateway Plaza remained off limits. And south of “It’s all very depressing,” Beth said. “We’ve “There are emergency workers everywhere,” ❖ Chambers Street in Tribeca, some residents were lived here for 21 years, but now we don’t have he reported. “Everything’s covered with dirt. A The displaced often made friends with gaining access to their homes, but without hard our neighborhood.” tree was cut down and used as a barricade. The their temporary homes were matched with volun- slowing down,” said Sutherland, who owns two strangers. Antoinette and Leo Tulito, who live at information on how to get their apartments military has set up tents in the park and there are teers offering temporary shelter for animals. dogs. Though she isn’t a member of any animal 275 Greenwich St., fled their apartment (Leo had cleaned, few were returning to live. If they did helicopter pads in the park. They’re pumping On Sunday afternoon, Soile Kilpi’s two cats protection groups, she said that as a dog owner, been shopping at the Greenmarket next to the return, it was usually just to get some belong- water out of the harbor to pour on the fire.” peered curiously from their carriers while she she was concerned about the BPC pets. “I love World Trade Center) and made their way to their ings. By the end of the month, frustration was Many of the displaced William Yip, 33, and his fiancée, Barbara arranged foster care for them. Nearby, Joe and animals,” she said. “I wanted to help.” restaurant, Arqua on Church Street. After the mounting. Yau, hoped to retrieve some belongings. They Robin Begley waited with a small menagerie— ❖ first tower crashed, they walked uptown to get ❖ from Battery Park City had reached their apartment two days earlier to two large turtles, two baby turtles, and a bird— So many displaced residents moved to the their two children. By the time they arrived at Paul and Beth Lieberman walked north on rescue their two rabbits. “The entire esplanade for a chance to talk to a veterinarian. The Beg- Tribeca Grand Hotel that the dimly lit lobby took their son’s school on 74th Street, his teacher Hudson Street 10 days after the disaster, hauling were concerned about was covered with soot, ash and paper,” said Yip. leys, who also have a dog, have three children at on the look of a chic refugee camp. Within a few from last year had arranged for them to live with four duffel bags on a small luggage carrier. “There were flattened emergency vehicles piled I.S. 89 and P.S. 234. days after the attack, half the hotel’s 203 rooms her sister-in-law—whom they had never met— They’d packed all they could carry from their moving back. Was the up. Most of the windows of the Winter Garden Judy Cameron and her daughter, Sarah, had were occupied by homeless downtowners. The on the upper West Side. home at 80 Warren St. “We’re like refugees,” are cracked. Looking from the river side into the come to retrieve their two cats from 450 North hotel charged local residents $99 for rooms that “We stayed for a week. They were a family of said Paul, crossing Chambers Street. “We packed air safe to breathe? Winter Garden, you could see a gigantic hole End Ave. They had been unable to get into their normally go for $350 and up, and in the second four and we were four. They fed us, gave us clothes for the kids. And I got some clothes for where the bridge used to be.” apartment on Wednesday and Friday, Cameron week began offering complimentary calls and 25 clothes and everything we needed. I never met work. Yesterday we waited in the rain but they How should they clean An animal rescue center was set up inside said. “I’m anxious. I couldn’t sleep last night.” percent off food and beverages. Late last month people who were so understanding and so kind. wouldn’t allow us in. The police said it was all Pier 40 for Battery Park City residents retrieving Volunteer Cathy Sutherland, who lives in the hotel was preparing to start showing daily They are still calling us to see if we are okay. closed off.” up the dust in their pets. Volunteers from animal groups such as midtown, said a couple of hundred Battery Park movies, including Saturday matinees for kids, in They were an answer to our prayers in a desper- The Lieberman family is among the more for- PETA and the ASPCA provided escorts for pet City pet owners had been through the animal res- its downstairs screening room, along with Sun- ate moment.” tunate refugees: They have a house on Long apartments? owners, who had priority for going to their apart- cue center in the previous few days. day football and shows like “The Sopranos.” About 70 residents of Independence Plaza’s Island. They spent a night with friends uptown, ments. Residents unable to care for their pets at “It’s been pretty busy here, but I think it’s “They’ve gone out of their way here,” said CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 20 HITTING HOME THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 THE DISPLACED 21

The Displaced CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE 310 Greenwich Street building, many of them elderly, were bused on Sept. 12 to a Red Cross shelter at Washington Irving High School near Union Square. The absence of power forced their evacuation. One of them was 81-year-old Mattie Quailey, who had found herself alone with her fears and her prayers on the night of the attack. Quailey wanted to join the exodus of people running north on Greenwich Street but she was frozen with fear. “I couldn’t move. A man stopped and said, ‘Miss, run.’ He took me by the A crowd of displaced residents, eager to learn arm and put me in the Kinney garage. Then he when they could return home, packed three rooms said, ‘You stay here. Don’t you move.’ Then he at New York University. But Councilwoman was gone. I said, ‘Why is he telling me to stay Kathryn Freed told them the city had no news. here and he’s gone?’” She went back to her apartment. (Above) Ida Hieger in the Red Cross The Tribeca Grand Hotel became feelings of many in the room. “Someone has to That night the power went off and Quailey shelter where she slept for two nights home to about 100 families who could deal with us,” she said. following the evacuation of 310 not return to apartments in Battery used candles and a flashlight. But the next day, Greenwich Street. (Left) Sue Jenner, Park City and Tribeca south of Cham- More than 1,000 Battery Park City residents, when she went to call someone, the telephone another IPN resident, stayed in the bers Street. Among them (Above) many from the Gateway Plaza buildings that was dead. “Then I panicked,” she recalled. “I’m shelter with her husband, Donald. were Warren Street residents Chris remained closed, packed Pace University’s 31 floors up. I looked in the hall and it was pitch “We’re moving into day three,” said and Giselle Gonzalez, and their chil- Schimmel Center for a Sept. 28 meeting orga- dark. The fridge wasn’t working. I started to cry. Donald. “Now all of a sudden we’re dren, Ellie and Lucas. (Right) Alan nized by the neighborhood’s newly formed resi- and Judy Fox Miller, with son Nathan, “I got a cell phone from a neighbor and moving into a routine that I really dents’ association. Standing in doorways, sitting don’t want to be part of.” dined on room service. called my pastor. I spoke to his wife. I said, ‘I’m in aisles and on the floor in front of the stage, alone and I have no light and no food. Please the crowd wanted answers. When could they go pray for me that God will take care of me two weeks, they said, the policies Management Agency (FEMA) for home? Was the air safe to breathe? How should because I’m scared.’ Then I went to read my about getting to their loft, at 71 West residential and small business assis- they clean up the dust and ash in their apart- Bible. I read the part when the ravens feed Elijah Broadway, seemed to change day to tance two days after the disaster and ments? When would more streets be opened to so he didn’t starve.” day, if not hour to hour. an inspector had visited their apart- pedestrians? What financial assistance was avail- That afternoon the police knocked on Quai- Their loft, where Peterson, a ment that day. Brickhouse’s artwork able? Could they break their leases? ley’s door and told her to stay in her apartment. filmmaker, and Brickhouse, a was not seriously damaged, he said, but his com- evening, how do we get the message to the Donald Scherer, president of a new BPC resi- “I went out on the terrace and prayed to the painter, have lived and worked for puter was “under a layer of dust.” Mayor that we need answers?” asked Mark dents’ association, struggled to maintain calm in Lord. I said, ‘Please help get me out of here.’” “I was frozen all night because they keep the 26 years, had no gas and was covered with a thin Brickhouse had lost three studio visits Moskin, who lives at Broadway and Warren the room. Her prayers were answered at 5 in the windows open. If it’s going to be later than Sun- layer of dust. The couple said they probably because of the disaster. In addition, he said, Street. “It’s important to keep things in perspective,” evening when there was a knock on the door. A day before we can go back, I’m leaving.” wouldn’t move back in until they could get the many applications for arts grants are due by “I’ll be satisfied if they just gave us a time- he said. “A lot of people lost their lives.” But he doctor was standing in the hall. “Go to your sister,” Hieger suggested. place professionally cleaned. October, leaving him and other artists in the line,” another resident said. “Is it a day, a week, also stressed the residents’ frustration. “We’ve come to take you out.” “I don’t want to bother her. She’s not feeling “The cleaning company said it would be at neighborhood struggling to meet the deadlines. a month, two months?” “We understand that the officials care but we “I said, ‘Get my neighbor, Elaine.’ They said, too good,” said Spolta. least a week before a crew can get in,” Brick- “How do you get your papers together, the The residents challenged the city’s justifica- also want action. We want them to remember us. ‘She sent us to get you.’ “Oh,” I said, “then I’m Hieger looked her in the eye. “So, neither are house said. “They’ve got a long list, and we application forms and tax information and your tion for keeping a 16-acre zone off limits. Build- We’re still living in an area that can only be coming.’” you, dear,” she said. called pretty early on.” slides, when you can’t even get to your home?” ings had been found to be structurally sound, called a war zone.” ❖ ❖ They were staying with a friend at Indepen- ❖ they asserted. And the claim that the area was a Representatives of the Battery Park City On the residents’ second night in the shelter, Beverly Peterson and Farrell Brickhouse were dence Plaza, their fifth home in two weeks. On Sept. 23, word spread quickly that Coun- crime scene seemed arbitrary. Authority described efforts to get the neighbor- around 3 a.m., an old woman kept calling out able to return to their home without a police The couple had left after the first tower fell. cilwoman Kathryn Freed’s office had organized “I see tourists walking in front of my home, hood back to something approaching normality. from the half darkness of the Washington Irving escort for the first time on Sept. 27. For the first They were almost engulfed in the cloud of ash a meeting for the following night with a repre- just across the street, but I can’t get in,” said a Some skeptical residents hooted. An official High School library, which served as a makeshift and debris that rushed up West Broadway when sentative of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency woman who lives on Broadway near City Hall. from the federal Environmental Protection dormitory. the second tower collapsed. Management. Desperate residents thought there “How do you decide it’s a crime scene on one Agency said there was ongoing air quality test- “It’s cold in here. Somebody close the win- The first night Beverly The first place they stayed was a hotel on might be news. side of the street, but across the street it’s not?” ing but that she didn’t have conclusive results. dow. It’s cold in here.” Despite the repeated 28th Street. “I thought, I can handle this,” Peter- More than 400 of them showed up at an Wils and Freed, both of whom live in Tribeca, Scherer requested money from the Authority’s cries, there was little stirring among those who Peterson stayed at a son recalled. “Then I opened a window and five N.Y.U. building eager to find out when their assured everyone that they were on their side. budget surplus to hire an independent expert. lay on the cots arrayed along the bookshelves. blocks away was the Empire State Building. I streets and buildings would reopen. Unfortunate- “It’s been very difficult to get any informa- Jamie Lefrak, an executive from the Lefrak Perhaps a dozen people were sleeping there. hotel on 28th Street, was relieved to wake up in the morning and see ly, only half that many could fit in the seventh- tion out of the Mayor’s office,” Wils said. Organization, Gateway Plaza’s landlord, took Others were dozing on the stage of the school it standing.” floor lecture hall where the meeting was held. Three tenants at 125 Cedar St., the residential some heat but won respect by answering ques- auditorium. A Red Cross volunteer shut the win- five blocks from the “The first time we visited, on the second day, Some of the overflow was placed in a second building closest to the disaster site, said they tions from the podium and then for an hour in dows, but the chill never left the room. we were still in a state of shock,” Peterson said. classroom, while the rest, about a hundred peo- want to go back to their badly damaged homes to the lobby. Tenants didn’t have to pay rent for In the morning, Ida Hieger, 80, sat in her Empire State Building. “The policeman who escorted us was on the ple, filled the building’s stifling lobby. rebuild. As it is, they said, they don’t have a time they were displaced and would get a rent- wheelchair waiting for her nephew from Boston phone, crying. He had just found out that a good There wasn’t much to hear, anyway. The city chance to retrieve belongings. free month to assess the living conditions, he to pick her up. She praised the shelter volunteers, “I was relieved to wake friend had been killed in one of the towers.” official who appeared provided no answers. The “They give us 15 or 30 minutes to get stuff, said. The audience applauded. Rockrose Devel- who were making sure that she was fully stocked When the Red Cross that week passed out a audience in the auditorium grew angry and the but our apartment looks like it was a mile from opment Corp., another BPC landlord, didn’t send with the bag full of medications that she had up in the morning and list of symptoms for post-traumatic stress disor- meeting ended in disarray. In the smaller class- an atomic blast,” said Andy Jurinko. “We can’t anyone to the meeting. brought with her. “You have to be here and expe- der, Brickhouse said, he and his wife recognized room, residents and some small business owners find things because everything’s covered in six Two tenant lawyers answered legal questions rience what these people are doing for us,” she see it standing,” almost all of them. threw questions and vented frustration at Com- inches of ash and debris. There are computers and offered ongoing assistance, and resident told a reporter. “We said, ‘Yes, check that one, yes, check munity Board 1 Chair Madelyn Wils and then lying in my living room from the World Trade association leaders began organizing members Just then her neighbor, Mary Spolta, walked she said. that one,’ down the list.” Councilwoman Freed. Center. I never owned a computer.” building by building. The struggle to get disrupt- by to complain. The couple applied to the Federal Emergency “If we’re not getting information this Patricia Moore, Jurinko’s wife, captured the ed lives back in order had a long way to go. ■ 22 THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 HITTING HOME 23

Tribeca is a strong, beautiful community.

ULA You truly know what it means

DAY SPA Manning Kasparian, to love your neighbor. 85, watches as a Red Cross worker helps her daughter, Alice, Thank you for your don a mask.

inspiring example of Magda Lenski and the entire staff of Ula offer their deepest condolences loving service to one another. to those who have lost so much. HHeellpipinngg HHaannddss Also, let us express our admiration for all who have reached out to defend Rev. William Grant All around the neighborhood, volunteers showed their courage and compassion. and assist our community. Desperate to help, these ordinary people searched debris for survivors Cynthia de Ben Grant and gave solace and sustenance to weary rescue workers and neighbors.

here’s a saying in Bud- ❖ The digging and shoveling had thrown dhism,” said Diane Lap- By mid-afternoon, a triage center was set up dozens of backs out of whack. Hyman gave mas- son, a resident of 310 in the plaza of the Salomon Smith Barney build- sages, treated injuries and administered physical 8 HARRISON STREET NEW YORK, NY 10013 • 212.343.2376 Greenwich St. “‘The mud- ing on Greenwich Street. Volunteers from the tri- therapy. “These guys have been out there 24 dier the swamp, the more state area, priests, psychologists, doctors, nurses, hours at a time,” he said. “We realign them, fix “beautiful“ TtheT lotus flower.’ That’s what happened volunteer firefighters and ambulance drivers them up so they can go back out there. They here. It’s an unspeakable tragedy, but the best waited into the night for the injured who, sadly, don’t want to stop for anything.” parts of our community came to the surface. You never arrived. ❖ get to see who you’re living with.” “We’re not going to throw anyone out of Estelle Woldin, 76, roamed the streets the day Lapson worked tirelessly day after day with here, but I don’t believe you’re going to see any after the attack, near hysteria, asking anyone, Dorothy Drayton and other IPN tenant leaders to patients coming this way,” Stephen Michaels, a everyone, where they needed volunteers. Finally, make sure the many seniors in the complex were firefighter from Roslyn, L.I., told a group of vol- she found work with the Salvation Army, hand- cared for. unteers. They were not medical personnel but ing out sandwiches to rescuers. “If I wasn’t She was just one of countless members of the ordinary people ready to transport patients, treat doing this, I think I would be in a mental hospi- community, as well as volunteers from around minor injuries, hold hands and move supplies. It tal,” she said. “I’d go upstairs and start crying the country, who countered the worst of humani- was more than 12 hours after the attack. and feel exhausted and I’d come back here and ty with the best. “I believe that the immediate sense of get my energy back.” ❖ urgency is over,” Michaels said quietly. “The humanity of the rescue workers, the For all our heroes Three hours after the first plane had hit, while ❖ police, the fire department,” she continued. Assets London would like to express many were still wandering the neighborhood in Noah Hyman, a physical therapist on Frank- “You’d give them something and they thank you here and gone our profound gratitude to the numerous stunned disbelief, Brian Ramos was rounding up lin Street, had a busy week, running from one so much. I’m stunned and moved. It’s been ther- volunteers on Greenwich Street. rescue location to another. apy. For anyone who hasn’t offered, I feel sorry firemen, police and EMT workers “Everyone sign your name and phone num- “I bring my table down, set it up and work,” for them.” Our gratitude and our ber,” said Ramos, passing out sheets of paper to he said. ❖ who continuously put their lives on the line the dozens ready to join the search and rescue Late Thursday night, three United Van Lines commitment to remember effort. trucks dumped supplies on North Moore Street. in order to make our city a safer place to live. “Me and two friends decided to organize vol- The materials blocked the doors, trapping some unteers,” he said. “We’re separating everybody “If I wasn’t residents in their homes. We would also like to thank Mayor Giuliani into different groups, people who are CPR certi- “They were five or six feet high, three boxes fied, medical personnel, construction workers, volunteering, I would deep,” recalls Diane Paly, who lives on North for his leadership during this difficult time. people who just want to help out.” Moore. “Three tractor trailers of stuff. Clothing, Many of the organized volunteers were shunt- be in a mental coolers, buckets, food, toothbrushes, children’s ed from one part of the neighborhood to another clothing, you name it. They just emptied it all Bring in this ad and receive and waited for hours before learning that they hospital,” said Estelle out and left.” 10% off any regularly priced merchandise could not enter the site because it was too dan- Woldin. “I go upstairs, None of the city’s support agencies would Corcoran Group Real Estate Corcoran Group Marketing during the month of October. gerous for untrained volunteers. help. The Office of Emergency Management said Often it was the “guerrillas” who made it to it was an illegal dump and they wouldn’t take it. Ground Zero. Tribeca residents Marc Ameruso start crying, then come The Red Cross wouldn’t touch it. i joined the bucket brigade by posing as a con- “City Harvest took some stuff,” says Paly. struction worker and Rob Mango, an artist, used back here and get my “Tribeca Grill took some food. But we were 152 FRANKLIN S TREET 219-8777 his standpipe inspector’s certificate to get per- afraid of rats and looters.” M ON-SAT 10-8 mission to clean subway stairs and check build- energy back.” Finally, she says, the residents rallied. “We ings for gas leaks. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 24 HITTING HOMETHE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 HELPING HANDS 25

(Above) Outside Yaffa’s on Harri- In the first hours after the son Street, sleep-deprived North Helping Hands attack, hundreds of people vol- Carolina firefighters Matt Morris, CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE unteered to treat victims and right, and Tracy Morgan take found a cart and started wheeling stuff down to dig through rubble. respite where they can find it. the workers. We brought some stuff to BMCC, (Above) Army Lt. Bryan Pelton, (Left) Eileen McColgan, with her where they had a center set up. It felt good and from Upper Marlboro, Md., sons, Darby and Aidan, delivers cathartic to work.” teaches CPR to volunteers lunch to Meals on Wheels recipi- waiting to be called to action. ents at Independence Plaza. But that night, another tractor trailer came to “Instead of people standing They picked up the meals at dump more supplies. The residents were furious. around, I started to train people Canal Street because drivers “We told him he can’t, but he didn’t stop,” says in basic medical skills,” he said. were not allowed farther south. Paly. “He said he’d been driving around and Most of the volunteers, like a everyone had turned him away. He was frustrat- group that waited on Jay Street That morning, Reiss, who lives half a block next to a fire- your breath,’ and everyone is ed. I was begging him not to block doorways. He (above right), were not allowed away at 121 Reade St., had turned the bank fighter I didn’t totally still for 60 seconds, lis- down to the Trade Center said, ‘You mean people live here?’ We finally because of fires and the vestibule into a supply center for rescue workers. know.” tening for anyone screaming got the cops. They stopped him.” danger of building collapses. Across the street, the Salvation Army had a The next below.” ❖ (Right) By the afternoon, a small station under a tarp, where people were day, when res- Rescue operations stopped Brian Barasky, 29, lives above his bar, the triage center staffed by volun- dropping off donations. When it began raining, cue officials at one point when there was a Reade Street Pub. These are his recollections of teer medical personnel was the supplies began to get soaked. needed some- warning that another building volunteering at Ground Zero. established at the Travelers “I wanted to find a place for everything and I one to accompany a police chaplain to Ground might collapse. “The first day, I was going nuts. I had to do Building at Greenwich and saw the doors here were open,” Reiss said. “I Zero and to do eyewashes there, she volunteered. “Suddenly people said, something. I walked down and joined some vol- North Moore streets. The grabbed a couple of guys and we started bringing Soon she was part of the brigade of volunteers ‘Go! Go! Go! Run! Run! Run!’ and people start- volunteers waited for hours, unteers in front of Century 21. No one knew but, sadly, no victims stuff inside. Once people saw there was a place working on the mound of rubble near the ed running,” Bettenhausen said. “I ran with what was going on. People organized them- emerged to be treated. to put things, they just kept bringing things in.” makeshift morgue. everyone else.” selves, going on instinct. We built wooden Reiss was soon joined by her superintendent, Small and thin, wearing shorts, an oversized She stopped somewhere between Ground bridges over the fire hoses so that cranes and First there was rubber and then Rita Morris, and Morris’s 16-year-old daughter, pair of work boots and an orange rescue work- Zero and Warren Street. trucks could go over them. I worked about seven other terrible, filthy odors. Denise. The three began organizing. When the er’s vest with reflector stripes, Bettenhausen did- “Then I realized that I had lost the letter. I hours, went home and got a little sleep. “The buckets were constantly Gelvans showed up, they joined the effort. n’t look like the typical Ground Zero volunteer. had had it in a box, with saline solution for the “The next day, I joined a bucket brigade. going all around you, back and “We’ve been here all day and now we have a “I was bringing in ice, which they were using eyewashes and a couple of other items I had There were about 20 men in a line and we’d fill forth. I looked at guys working little store,” Reiss said. “We’ve got everything. to keep the bodies fresh,” she said. “Then I was picked up. A couple of pictures. five-gallon buckets with debris and pass them and didn’t see anything in their eyes. They were ❖ We even have bras and panties.” helping pass bags from the rubble. There were “I had been okay until then, but then I lost it. along. I had a little pick crowbar. But we mostly in shock. Everyone had a blank expression. On Friday evening, Robin Reiss and her The volunteers at this makeshift store repre- body parts in the bags. Pieces of hair. Blood was I just stopped. Even if that woman didn’t make it used our hands. “You knew you probably weren’t going to neighbors, Aaron and Lisa Gelvan, sat on boxes sented practically the entire remaining population seeping out of a bag and ran down my leg. They out, it would have been comforting to her moth- “It took two hours to get to the head of the find anyone. But there was that small hope. in the ATM vestibule of the HSBC bank on of 121 Reade St., normally home to 200 people. sprayed me down, and sprayed out my boots.” er, to know that she was calm and had written line. As men got too tired to work, they’d leave “The third night was the worst. It was raining Reade Street. The space was dark, the cash They were living without electricity or water, The boots, given to her by rescuers, came the note. and you moved up. The first time I got to the and there was lightning. I was working under machines were down and they were surrounded showering in the basement of the Reade Street from the morgue, she said. “They told me, “My legs were wobbling. I didn’t hear crash- head of the line, I looked down and there were One Liberty Plaza. I thought it was going to fall by neat piles of shirts, blankets, towels, work Pub next door. ‘Don’t look at the name because we may not ing. I didn’t know why everyone was freaking people digging below me like rats digging in a on us. It had a big chunk taken out of it. We all gloves, boots, packages of saline solution, flash- “We want to do our small part,” said Aaron have notified his wife.’” out. So I sat down. I was mad. I felt like I was hole, climbing everywhere through the wreck- felt a real unity. If that building fell down, we lights, soap, Tylenol, tampons, toothbrushes and Gelvan, “for the guys who are really putting it In the debris, she found a partially burned giving in by running. I just couldn’t stand up.” age. It was terrifying. I thought, ‘Oh, shit, I can’t were all going down together. more. Everything was organized. A stack of new on the line.” note. Finally, she walked away with a couple of back out now.’ “Sometime during the night, there was a big blue jeans were arranged by size. ❖ “It looked like a letter a woman wrote to her other rescue workers. “Things were hot and sharp. You were next to explosion and I thought, ‘What the shit? Is Two National Guardsmen walked in. They On the afternoon of the disaster, M. J. Betten- mom. It was on one of those phone message “There were guys near Ground Zero just sit- patches of fire. I found a guy’s laptop with his something else happening?’ But no one left. were in search of underwear. hausen, who lives in Independence Plaza, began pads. She filled it in: ‘To: Mom. From: 1 WTC.’ ting there. They were so numb, so dazed. They name still on it, a shoe, a chair. It was a night- They just kept filling up those buckets. After a “What size?” Reiss asked. lending a hand at the rescue center at Borough of It said something like, ‘I’m waiting to be evacu- were devastated. Just sitting and staring.” mare. few hours, the wind picked up real quick and the “Thirty-six.” Manhattan Community College. ated. I’m probably going to hand this to you ❖ “Every once in a while, you’d lift up your glass started falling out. Someone with a bull- “There you go.” She gave eyewashes to firefighters and police myself. We’re very calm. Don’t worry about me. After the second plane hit, Paul Weisenfeld, head and see thousands of men passing buckets. horn told us to get out. I went back to Puffy’s, Late into the night, rescue workers came. A who were working in the thick dust, and helped I love you. But if I don’t make it, take care of’— the owner of Tribeca Hardware, picked up his But we were like a needle in a haystack. They got drunk, and never went back again. firefighter wanted a toothbrush and socks. A con- treat minor injuries among rescue personnel. She it looked like a pet’s name.” family in northern Battery Park City, took them could have used another 10,000 people. “I don’t remember half the things I did or struction worker needed gloves. A police officer set up cots, cleaned, and relayed messages The rescue work was harrowing, Betten- uptown and then returned to the store to pick up “I had to keep taking off my mask because my saw. If you did, you'd go nuts. I just want to for- asked for batteries. They almost always found between officials. She worked late into the night. hausen said. a flashlight and a concrete cutter. “First, I joined glasses got fogged up. The smells kept changing. get about it.” what they needed. “I slept on a cot there,” she said. “I woke up “Every once in a while, they’d say, ‘Hold CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 26 HITTING HOMETHE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 HELPING HANDS 27

ers from a mobile kitchen set up on Greenwich The following afternoon, Transit Officer tion time.” He pulled out a business card. It said: Helping Hands Street at the corner of Reade. They called them- Richard Starks, working security at the rescue “Free Hug Coupon.” CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE selves the Gumbo Crew. Shawn Bradley, a 37- site, stood with two fellow officers where “Most of the people I get a smile from,” he a bucket brigade. We were two lines of about 20 year-old electrician from New Orleans, wearing Bradley had cooked the night before. “Where’d said. “I get a few kids screaming. But all I want men. We worked under the bridge on West an American flag bandanna wrapped around his the gumbo go?” he asked. “I had three bowls is a smile. I give the hug coupons, and I do par- Street, filling up buckets of debris. The smoke head, was tending a vat of okra stew on a yesterday. It’s good to get a hot meal that’s not ticipate in the hugs.” was bad. We built ramps so that the trucks could portable stove. A table was laid with platters of fast food.” He smiled under his clown makeup and go over the fire hoses.” rice, bread and hot sauce. ❖ wrapped his arms around a reporter, then pulled Weisenfeld worked into the night and “I saw ’em on TV eatin’ hamburgers one too Three blocks north of the smoking wreckage, out another card. It said, “John Kapferer, Assis- returned the next morning. “Everyone was work- many days,” he said. “I said, I’m gonna go up a hulking clown stood on Greenwich Street, tant Vice President–Controller, Affinity Credit ing at 150 percent, fast, furious,” he said. “There there and cook some gumbo and do some good. dressed in a yellow wig and pastel overalls. “I’m Union.” was rubble all around. Even buildings that were Gumbo does something special. It’s good for the from Chatham, N.J.,” he said. “I just came in to “I’ve hugged firemen, policemen, the electric still standing looked like they’d been hit by soul.” see if I could bring smiles to people’s faces.” company,” he added. “But I don’t mess with mil- shrapnel. I was frightened. We were working like Bradley, his wife and a crew of seven friends “I’m a part-time professional clown,” he con- itary police.” crazy. It was still burning around us. Things were drove up from New Orleans. Next to their tinued. “I’ve worked all over. I’ve been a clown Kapferer clip-clopped and grinned his way up falling.” makeshift kitchen was a small trailer, which in Bosnia. Russia. Kosovo. I’ve been to all sorts Greenwich, past the bulldozers, cop cars, Con Ed That afternoon, he called his supplier, TruVal- Bradley uses for his business. It sported a freshly of tragedies, shelters. Hospitals. After there’s trucks and miscellaneous other support vehicles ue, to ask for donations. “They came on Thurs- painted sign: “Gumbo Crew. New Orleans to been a war or something, I travel. I use my vaca- that filled the neighborhood’s otherwise empty day at 3 a.m. with a tractor trailer of shovels, New York.” streets. Near Canal, he passed some residents dust masks, goggles, respirators and flashlights. “I love to cook gumbo,” Bradley said. “We standing outside their building. One of them, My manager, Steve, and I met them at 14th do a lot of tailgating at LSU games.” Eileen Rachelson, welcomed him with open Street, which is as far as they’d let them go. We The crew’s goal was to serve 1,000 bowls arms. brought the stuff back to the store with the pick- before they headed home on Sunday or Monday. “My mother called and said she wished she up truck. Then we filled garbage pails with the They planned to take turns sleeping in Bradley’s could give me a hug,” she said. “Now I got one.” stuff, put them on hand trucks and went back and covered pickup truck parked across the street. ❖ forth between the store and the bucket brigades.” The team had driven first to Canal and West Community Affairs Officer Joe Bellomo, ❖ streets, but found no place to set up. “Then a dressed in faded jeans and an NYPD polo shirt, On Hudson Street, Jennifer Stevens, a nurse couple of cops saw us,” said Robert Quichocho, stood with his hands on his hips, surveying the from Reading, Penn., was giving a rubdown to a 28, who flew in from Boston to join Bradley’s back room of the First Precinct. Coolers hastily fireman from Bushwick. She had set her massage crew. “When we told them what we were doing, labeled with magic marker—“water,” “misc. chair on the sidewalk to administer relaxation to one of them said, ‘We know a place and we’ll juice”—were lined up on the linoleum. Tables the first rescue worker she saw. “It took me a give you a police escort there.” sagged under the weight of crates of muffins, while to get here,” said Stevens, massaging the “We just set up and started cooking,” said shopping bags filled with sweets, boxes of rolls. worker’s bare shoulders under the bright Sep- Bradley. “We’ll cook until they run us off or we “Our manpower is doing 16-hour shifts,” he tember sun. “I got up at 5 a.m. I wanted to work run out of food.” said. “Everyone’s working their days off. I’m here as a nurse but there’s no one to help. I’m A city official had scolded them for setting up losing my mind, basically. But we’ve had a lot of also a massage therapist. I’ll stay here till I can’t without a permit, but Bradley wouldn’t budge. help. All the restaurants have been feeding the find anyone else. Probably until late tonight.” “If someone wants to stop us, let ’em try. I’m rescue workers.” The massagee, Lt. Kuenfur, groaned with cookin’ the gumbo or goin’ to jail.” From the first day, Capsouto Frères at Watts tired happiness. “Excellent. Amazing. Great. But the Big Easy crew was no match for Big and Washington streets did buffet lunch and din- She’s incredible,” he murmured. “How ’bout a Apple officials. By 1 a.m., the Health Depart- ner, feeding Con Ed workers, police, rescue work- piña colada?” ment had shut down the ragin’ Cajuns. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE A second Bushwick fireman, who said his name was Joe, had already gotten a rubdown. “We were right in the middle of the destruction,” he said. “But there’s not much to find. Everyone has disappeared. We found a hand and one body, but we couldn’t get it out because it was under an I-beam. We’ve been working 24 hours straight. It’s kind of strange down there. You have guys working hard and not finding people. Supposedly there’s five thousand people in there but we’ve found less than a hundred. They’re in there somewhere. This is hard.” He brightened when a third fireman came bounding back from a trip around the block to the North Moore Street firehouse. “I just washed (Above left) A worker from up and what a miracle—new socks!” he said, Tribeca Grill rolls a cart of flashing white-clad feet. food down Geenwich Street to Joe brightened. “Socks. Go get us some rescue workers. (Left) John socks!” Kapferer, who came from His friend raced back to the firehouse and Joe Chatham, N.J., to hug people and make them smile, brings smiled. “Socks,” he said. “He’s going to get us (Top) Workers and local residents were fed plentiful hot meals at Capsouto Frères, on Washington a smile to the lips of Tribecan some socks.” Street. (Center) John Hernandez was one of a number of local residents who became fixtures at a Salva- Eileen Rachelson. Afterwards, ❖ tion Army feeding station on West Street. (Bottom) Norma Fontane, right, of Tribeca Blues, cooked at Kapferer walks up Hudson On Friday night, Sept. 21, a band of volun- Engine 7/Ladder 1’s firehouse every day during the week of the disaster. Street looking for more peo- teers from Louisiana were serving rescue work- ple to hug. 28 HITTING HOME THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 29 Helping Hands “Take ’em to Bouley’s place on Duane,” ❖ ordered Bellomo. “We have to transport food to The morning after the towers fell, Norma CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE “A MOUTH -WATERING . Ground Zero!” Fontane, of Tribeca Blues, walked to the fire- ers and anyone in the neighborhood who was Two officers staggered in after a shift, col- house on Duane Street. “I have all this food,” DISPLAY OF TALENT hungry. lapsed into their chairs, and waved them off. As she told firefighters from Engine 7 and Ladder 1. ”technique and patience. There are more intrigues here than” in the courtwalker’s of the Medicis. “The first few days we served whatever was the coolers rolled out, one lifted his head to offer “Let’s go get it.” Elvis Mitchell, THE NEW YORK TIMES perishable,” said co-owner Jacques Capsouto, a word of encouragement: “Rock n’ roll, right?” Fontane and a few of the firefighters drove a “soft shell crabs, shrimp, salad. Madeline Lan- Galen Zamarra, the chef at Bouley Bakery, Fire Department truck to the club on Warren ciani of Duane Park Patisserie brought over crois- stood outside the restaurant, waiting for the cops. Street and filled it with vegetables, potatoes, “TWO THUMBS UP !” sants, brioches, a case of butter and eggs. We’re “Right now we’re preparing stuffed peppers, steak, fish, salad, cold cuts, bread. Fontane spent EBERT & ROEPER feeding 100 people a day.” fried chicken, rice, mashed potatoes,” he said. that day and every day that week at the fire- “The best movie about the restaurant business I’ve seen Down Greenwich Street, Maria Valim stood The staff were working with donations from house, cooking for the men who worked around since ‘Big Night’. Beautifully lit and photographed. in front of her restaurant, Pico. “We’ve been here an upstate supermarket, trying their best to trans- the clock looking for survivors at Ground Zero. The richly talented ensemble cast works seamlessly with (director) Giraldi’s camera.” the last few days providing food,” she said. “We form basic commodities into gourmet meals. Fontane, who lives at 261 Broadway, knows had firefighters sleep inside on the banquettes. “We’re making it nice, putting a lot of effort into most of the guys in the firehouse well. Her son- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER Yesterday, we fed 200 workers and 100 local it,” he said. “We had 10 workers in here till four in-law was a fireman in Ladder 1 for seven FILMED IN families. I asked for some help from Chanterelle in the morning. Believe me, we get excited.” years. She spent 21 years running Norma’s TRIBECA’S and suddenly we had ten guys working here. Outside Tribeca Grill, restaurant workers Restaurant, across the street from the house. OWN They were like angels in their chef hats. We were filling a police station wagon with pans of Whenever she needed help, a firefighter was GIGINO TRATTORIA served everything from lamb salad to tomato beef stew. Edward Mamet, a retired captain with there to give her a hand with plumbing, carpen- salad. Everyone pulled together.” By the week- the NYPD, was supervising the operation. He try or electrical work. end after the disaster, many restaurants were had been on the job for five days and nights, “The firemen cook for themselves, usually,” feeding the thousands of rescue workers. bringing hot meals into the frozen zone. Fontane said one night as she laid out a platter of It was Officer Bellomo’s job to coordinate the “That guy, Drew,” he said, pointing to the pasta. “But this way they can be together and not massive task of dragging all the food down to restaurant’s owner, Drew Nieporent, “he opened have to worry about food. feed those laboring in the World Trade Center the restaurant and used up all their food.” “They’re like family. They were happy to see ruins. “The Tribeca Grill has been phenomenal,” Nieporent took a break from his cell phone. a familiar face, and I was happy to see them.” he said. “Socrates, wonderful. The New York “There’s been an organized effort from the Engine 7’s captain, Peter Tardio, walked into Restaurant School fed 500 guys yesterday.” restaurant community,” he said. “We’re getting the kitchen. “Is this woman unbelievable?” he Two officers burst into the room. “Every cool- food from Chelsea Piers that they bring down on asked, filling a plate. er we got send to 161 Hudson!” one shouted. the Spirit of New York cruise ship.” “She’s the best,” said Damian Van Cleaf, an JAZZ ON SUNDAYS “I have five coolers from the Regent Hotel His cell phone rang and he turned away to Engine 7 firefighter. “It’s like having my mother 16 N. 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Duane Park Patisserie posted a sign on the door to remind passersby that it was in business. Although restaurants throughout Tribeca suffered enormous losses, they still offered free food to firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers. BusinessBusiness GoneGone BadBad “Bring the police barriers down” was the battle cry. But the problems for businesses in Tribeca were even larger. Few have made any money for a month. Landlords still want the rent. How many businesses can survive?

ike most businesses around the city “I’m thinking I’m not going to see them again.” business association, was ready to organize. The early last month, those in Tribeca At Ray’s Barber Shop, on Chambers Street, first two meetings of small businesses were were gearing up for a busy fall sea- Rashel Tahlov and Boris Mashkabov were play- called by Jennifer Mabley, owner of Silk Trading son. Grace Koh of Koh’s Kids had ing backgammon while Wally Mashkabov sat Company at 39 North Moore St. At each one, stocked her shelves with fall clothes motionless in one of the empty chairs. With the nearly 100 people jammed into the showroom, Land Andy Koutsoudakis and Pete Panayiotou schools closed and access to Chambers Street leaning against the bolts of brocades and silks. (Above) At Ray’s Barber Shop, Rashel Tahlov and were about to expand Gee Whiz. Along with the limited, the barbers were doing about four hair- “We need the barriers down,” said Mabley. Boris Mashkabov were playing backgammon many other home furnishing merchants in cuts a day. Most, they said, were given away to “We’re in a no-man’s land and we need business while Wally Mashkabov sat motionless in one of Tribeca, Aurelie Carini, co-owner of the hand- the uniformed workers on the scene. Tahlov said desperately.” the empty chairs. (Left) Mark Mozaffari of Trilogy woven carpet store Carini Lang, was looking for- he comes into the shop mostly to pass the time. At Mabley’s suggestion, the group voted to Photo Processing Lab on Chambers Street waits ward to October, the industry’s most important “I can’t sit at home. I can’t sleep. I think about put a full page ad in the New York Times for business. (Below) A waiter from Gigino Tratto- ria on Greenwich Street holds up a sign for people season. A half-dozen new restaurants and cloth- this all the time.” encouraging people to come to Tribeca and prevented from crossing Reade Street by police ing stores were about to open their doors. On Chambers Street, at Trilogy Photo Pro- offering 20 percent store discounts. barricades. Restaurateurs were permitted to But on Sept. 11, hopes were buried by the cessing Lab, Mark Mozaffari also tended an A few days later, more than 100 small busi- escort diners across police lines. misery, dust and debris that rained down on empty shop. Under the counter were dramatic ness owners met again at the community room of much of Lower Manhattan. photos he had taken of the burning towers, 310 Greenwich Street. Along with the shock, horror and grief over offered for two dollars apiece. Boris Krivoruk, who opened his shoe repair the disaster, downtown businesses—many in the “Sadly, that’s all they’re buying,” Mozaffari shop on Greenwich Street south of Warren seven so-called frozen zone—also feared for their own said. “And it’s mostly police officers.” years ago, came to the meeting hoping to hear survival. He said that between labor and rent, it costs when he could reopen. At a police barrier on Canal Street, business him a thousand dollars a day to open his doors. “My life was in this business,” Krivoruk said. owners desperate for customers met clients and “What’s the point of opening if the public can’t “I worked six days a week, 10 hours a day.” He escorted them through the police barriers. Pico come?” he asked. pulled out of his pocket the assortment of pills Restaurant arranged for a shuttle service to drive Suddenly, Tribeca, which had never had a his doctor has given him for his heart and his diners from Canal Street to their restaurant at blood pressure, which he said had shot up in the 349 Greenwich St. previous two weeks. “I see my customers and Stores south of Chambers Street in the frozen they say, ‘I have a lot of shoes. I’ll bring them to zone were completely cut off from the public. “Many of our you.’ That’s wonderful, but I still won’t be able our phone bills will be. Will you make an adjust- “You’re doing exactly what a bank does,” Tribeca Hardware on Chambers Street put flyers to afford the rent. Most of my customers worked ment on our bill?” said Sergio Zherka, owner of Acapella restaurant around the area advertising delivery service. customers worked at in the area. They brought their shoes in the “I can’t give you that answer,” Gonzalez at 1 Hudson St. “Can you guarantee people loans Mailboxes Etc. of Greenwich Street distributed morning and picked them up in the night.” replied. “Seven World Trade Center collapsed on if they don’t have collateral?” mail from an empty storefront on the north side the Trade Center and Larisa Teplitskaya, owner of Malachite Beau- one of our largest offices in the world. Everyone “We have to balance your needs with the of Chambers. Dozens of businesses had no ty Salon two doors down, was also worried is working nonstop to get the phones working.” interests of the taxpayers, who support this pro- phone service for two weeks or longer. the Bank of New about her rent. “As long as we’re closed, we Jim Neill, a representative from the Small gram,” Neill replied. Flor de Sol reopened on a warm, sunny day don’t have to pay rent, but the day we open Business Administration, was sympathetic, but After the meeting, Neill conceded that the but its outdoor tables were empty. One couple York,” said a restaurant we’re supposed to pay rent,” she said with tears he didn’t tell the audience what they wanted to devastation suffered by downtown Manhattan came in and sat, clutching the photo of a missing in her eyes. “That’s impossible.” hear. businesses was “unprecedented.” person. But they quickly got up and left. “They manager. “I’m thinking Nelson Gonzalez, a Verizon representative, “From what I see, you needed the money last “I’ve seen earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, said it’s too close,” said the manager, Fernando told the business owners about offers on cell week,” he said. “We’re offering four percent, 30- civil disputes,” he said, “but this is not like any- Garcia. 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At her first meeting with parents after their children returned to school at P.S. 41, P.S. 234 Principal Anna Switzer is greeted with a standing ovation. Parents praised her and her teach- ers for their cool-headed handling of the students A fourth-grader’s during the Trade Center drawing of the Twin attack. Towers. When Lower (Below) Fourth grade teach- Manhattan children ers Margaret O’Connell returned to school, (near) and Shoshana Wolfe many of them chose share a classroom in P.S. 3. the World Trade Cen- On this second day of class, ter attack as a sub- the room had yet to be fur- ject for writing and nished with chairs and drawing. tables. AndAnd thethe Children?Children? Local schools became command centers, ballfields turned into parking lots and friends and families were cast far and wide. In time, life would return to normal. But parents kept asking, “When?”

ome on, Crystal Palace,” Playing on a pickup Brent Shearer yelled to his team, Sam Gilberg scores against Crystal team of six on the soccer Palace during the first field on Pier 40. “They weekend of soccer after don’t even have uniforms!” the disaster. Many kids “C“CThe fighting words didn’t help. His seven- and coaches had yet to and eight-year-olds went down to defeat against return that week but a rag-tag pickup team, fill-ins for the scheduled more later came back and a full schedule was team that didn’t show up because many kids and drawn up for the remain- coaches had yet to return home. But it was the der of the season. With first weekend of soccer since the cataclysm of the home ballfields now Sept. 11, and that’s all that really mattered. For a a well-trod parking lot for little while, at least, kids could be kids. And earth movers, the kids are playing on three everyone needed a shot of normality. other fields, including “This community is so fractured. It was this one on Pier 40. important for people to see that the community still exists down here,” said Don Schuck, presi- dent of the Downtown Soccer League. important that you let them know that they are The attack had come on the very first day of The return to school on Sept. 20—if in unfa- safe,” District 2’s Director of Health Services, school at Washington Market School on Hudson miliar Greenwich Village classrooms—was Fred Kaeser, told P.S. 89 parents. Street. Excited four-year-olds were finding their another step toward the old routine. Bruce Arnold, the psychologist who works new cubbies. When school resumed nine days later, about 40 parents showed up to meet with “It’s good for them to go somewhere to with children at P.S. 234, told parents that chil- (Right) Unable to school,” said Liz Ohman, who stood in the dren “must have their experiences acknowl- psychologist Kate Gorman. Some reported that return to their Green- crowded yard of P.S. 41 after giving a goodbye edged. They must be given an opportunity to their children clung to them more. Others said wich Court apartment, hug to her P.S. 234 fifth grader, Caroline. share. They must be given an opportunity to hear that their kids now feared smoke and clouds. Rocco D’Orazio, right, ❖ “Things are getting better every day.” from classmates and teachers.” and brother Dante sit at the corner of But real normality would take time. More On the second day of P.S. 89’s stay at P.S. 3, drawings of the World Trade Center lined the Chambers and than 80 kids were packed into some of those Greenwich Streets. classrooms. Many had yet to return to their “It’s not just walls of the fourth grade classroom that was (Far right) The Park homes. And most still held terrible pictures in being shared by two classes. Teachers Margaret Preschool, on Warren their young minds. “I can’t think about that O’Connell and Shoshana Wolfe asked the chil- Street, left homeless academics we’re talking after the attack, found scene. I’ve blocked it out,” said P.S. 89 fifth dren to show New York City as it is now or as they would like it to be. Some drew the towers temporary quarters in grader Thea Glassman. “Because some things are about now,” District 2 the Duane Street loft too painful to think about.” intact; others added smoke and destruction and, of Charles Komanoff “We understand that it’s not just academics Superintendent Shelley in some cases, stick figures in midair. and Judy Levine. we’re talking about now,” District 2 Superinten- “It’s an ooey-gooey feeling,” the artist, Dulce dent Shelley Harwayne told a group of P.S. 89 Harwayne told P.S. 89 Montoya, told the class. “I felt really bad and I parents assembled at P.S. 3. “We want to help wanted to show people how bad I felt.” them heal in many ways.” parents. “We want to “When we came back we worried about Psychologists talked to parents at every whether they would be angry at us, whether they school about how to help that happen. help them heal in would consider us part of that day,” said Wolfe, a “Regardless of how you’re feeling about what new teacher at the school. But instead the teach- happens next with this country, it’s extremely many ways.” ers bonded quickly with the students, they said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 36 36 HITTING HOME THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 37

ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES OF And the Children? the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management NORTH FORK BANK returned the P.S. 234 building to the Board of CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Ed, opening the possibility that children could EXTEND OUR DEEPEST & HEARTFELT despite the few normal days they had had togeth- return there sooner rather than later. er. “Their school home and their home have been P.S./I.S. 89 parents were told by District 2 SYMPATHY TO ALL OF THE VICTIMS totally disrupted and I think that they are holding and Board of Education officials that their chil- onto anything that’s the same for them.” dren would be moving to the West 13th Street “The sense of trust and belonging had to be building. AND THEIR FAMILIES OF THIS so quickly forced on the kids and the teachers. Parents at P.S. 234 were divided over whether And I think they’ve all weathered it beautifully,” their children should return to their school, five AMERICAN TRAGEDY. said P.S. 89 Principal Ronnie Najjar, whose blocks north of the smoldering Trade Center noisy office last month was a tiny room with a ruins. With debris removal continuing nearby, cluttered table shared by P.S. 150 Principal questions about air quality lingered. Alyssa Polack and both school staffs. Still, she Roy Moskowitz, District 2’s spokesman, said said, “We’re always going to be worried about on Oct. 2 that the District office and the Board what’s going to be compromised.” of Education were not ready to decide who WE APPLAUD ALL THOSE ❖ would move to St. Bernard’s. “We want to get as Just when will the local public schools get much information as possible before making that INVOLVED IN THE RELIEF back to normal? kind of decision,” he said. As of Oct. 2, with the status of the P.S. 234 RONALD DRENGER A Board of Education construction worker fixes a “We don’t want to move back until the school AND ONGOING and P.S./I.S. 89 buildings in flux, plans for the window in a classroom of the former St. Bernard’s is safe and comfortable, but there’s a range of three schools remained unclear, to the frustration School on West 13th Street, where P.S. 234 or opinions about what that means,” said one 234 RESCUE EFFORT. of many parents. That morning, a group of P.S. P.S./I.S. 89 students were to be moved. parent who asked not to be identified. 234 parents visited the vacant building at 327 “We don’t know what’s going on, but we’re West 13th St., formerly the St. Bernard’s Parish whose children would be moving there. desperate to use this space,” said another parent School, which Board of Education workers were The Board of Education and the District 2 visiting St. Bernard’s. “The teachers and staff THE SPIRIT OF OUR cleaning and renovating. The principals of P.S. office indicated that P.S. 234 might move to St. have been heroic—they have no resources, no 89 and I.S. 89 were also touring the school. The Bernard’s if the 234 building continued to be room, and they’re working with children who are GREAT NATION PREVAILS! representatives of the three schools didn’t know occupied by emergency workers. But on Oct. 1, traumatized.” ■ GOD BLESS AMERICA! In light of the recent events, we wish to express our deepest sympathy.

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But they 327 Greenwich St. 334-3456 They shared information and stories, would rebuild its schools, parks, businesses and also felt the community spirit. Mon–Fri 7:30 am–5:30 pm Sat 8 am–3 pm • Delivery (min. $7) hugged and offered support, prayed and homes, he said. “People are concerned about us,” said Girish sangII and cried together. They opened their doors “We will not leave,” he concluded. “We will Nagpaul, the manager of Salaam Bombay, an to neighbors who needed a place to sleep or rebuild our community. Indian restaurant on Greenwich Street. “People shower or just use the phone. They became close Those gatherings may have been the first come and eat here or order because they want to ASHFORTH WARBURG to people they had hardly known. A Financial small step towards rebuilding. But more impor- give a boost to the local restaurants.” The Greenmarket District resident received a Rosh Hashanah card tant, many worried friends were finding one One Salaam Bombay regular from 51st Street from a neighbor he’d long been feuding with. another for the first time since that Tuesday. And took a taxi downtown and then walked from The Management, Brokers and Staff of Most people, it seemed, left or were forced they found them unscathed. Canal Street to the restaurant. is back!! out of their apartments in the nightmarish first In what became a common refrain, residents “He said he was worried about us and wanted Ashforth Warburg Associates wish to express days. But those who remained took comfort in said they had met more neighbors in the days to come and see us personally,” said Nagpaul. Every Wednesday & our deep sorrow to the friends and family of finding friends and familiar faces in a neighbor- after the disaster than they had in years. Residents and businesses reached out to the “It’s sad, but people in the neighborhood are local firehouses, delivering supplies, writing those lost or killed as a result of the recent hood that now looked much less like home. Saturday from 8-4 Three days after the disaster, much of the remain- now getting to know each other better,” said cards, stopping to say hello and pay tribute to the attack on our nation. We also want to thank the ing community came together for a candlelight Marianne King, a Leonard Street resident. missing. The firefighters, struggling to cope with many professional and volunteer rescue and vigil organized by Sheila Kavanagh. They stood “Those who remained in the area during the first the loss of colleagues and exhausting themselves Our temporary location: the NW corner at the corner of Greenwich and Harrison, facing week started to talk to each other more. I guess digging through the rubble, said they were relief workers for their bravery and dedication. of West Broadway and Worth Sts. the illuminated pyre down the street. What had we feel closer because we’re all going through it touched by the outpouring of support. started as a silent vigil turned into a singing one. together. So it will be an even stronger neighbor- “People have been incredibly friendly and hood.” helpful,” said Glen O’Connor, a firefighter with (Thanks to the owners of Edison Properties) ASHFORTH WARBURG DOWNTOWN 795 Broadway, NY, NY 10003 Accompanied by Bob Horan’s guitar, the group 212 327 9600 www.ashforthwarburg.com of about 100 reprised every patriotic and folk Local business owners, many of them com- Ladder 1 on Duane Street. “They offer us food song they could remember. Bea Schulman sang and sandwiches and give us so much support. I her heart out. 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Floor Buffers, • Vacuums, door and it’s all around, and the shadow of the Nailers • Sandpaper • Airless & Paint Sprayers Eleven days after the attack on the World Wet & Dry • Carpet & smoke settles over us, that gray silt that is lay- Polyurethane • Stains, Pressure Washers • Wallpa- who planned a party Upholstery Cleaners • Mops ered over the park that many of you built.” Trade Center turned Lower Manhattan into a fed- Bleaches, Applicators • Dust per Steamers • Drywall Waxes for Vinyl & Wood On the Saturday and Sunday following the eral disaster area, hundreds of kids danced and Masks & All Supplies. Sanders • Air Compressors & for kids a few weeks Wringer- Buckets sang under a riot of red, white and blue stream- Finish Nailers disaster, hundreds of downtown residents crowd- ed onto a fenced basketball court on Canal Street after the disaster. ers in a former firehouse on Lafayette Street. ~ DEPOSIT & IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR RENTALS. ~ in an effort to regroup as a community. 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Denise Corcoran (right ) and Ken Brown with daughter Jemma (below) were among a hundred residents who came to a candlelight vigil on Greenwich Street, Coming Together organized by Coming Together Sheila Kavanagh. CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE (Bottom) Five days after the attack, Bob Townley, the Tribeca was throwing a party. director of Manhattan Youth, In just three days, Behr and his wife, Vered, addresses hundreds of led a group of volunteers, decorated the walls residents in a first effort to and ceilings, put up lights and filled the art room organize the community and with supplies donated by Pearl Paint. They asked provide urgently needed local restaurants for food and enlisted the clown, information and support. In the aftermath of the Trade juggler and face painter. A band offered to play Center attack, Townley’s new for free. No one would accept payment. youth center on Warren The band had children and adults swinging Street was shut, the on the dance floor. Ken Brown and Lisa Crafts Manhattan Youth pool in helped organize the art. The works were mount- Battery Park City was all but demolished and his after- ed on the wall, labeled “A Quilt for Peace.” Two school programs had to parents played the guitar and sang with a circle start anew in Greenwich of children, while sweaty 12-year-olds played Village schools. basketball on a small makeshift court and small- er kids had their faces painted. For five hours on a glorious Saturday after- noon, about 1,000 parents and children put the devastation behind them. “It’s important to have a little fun,” said Valerie Thiery, keeping an eye on her two-year- old daughter, Amber. “Life has to go on.” There were other reminders that this was no birthday party. Children painted American flags as well as flowers, fish and hearts, and scrawled “I Love NY” and “God Bless America” along with thank-you notes to firefighters and police. Firefighters from North Moore Street’s Lad- der 8, which had lost a lieutenant, gave children a turn in the driver’s seat of their brand-new truck. The old truck had been crushed in the towers’ collapse. Parents exchanged stories about Sept. 11. They compared notes on ash in their living rooms, how the children were reacting, and their lives as displaced persons, and sought clues as to when they might be allowed home. “It’s important for everybody to feel like they’re together,” said Jeannie Weissglass, a Tribeca painter who helped with the art projects. “School was closed and lots of people were dis- placed. People need to feel they had a home.” Melodia DuVal, 12, a resident of Battery Park City, said the party “made me feel there are still fun things that will happen in the neighbor- hood.” She and her friends used to skate to the World Trade Center to shop on weekends. Behr, who thought of holding the unlikely celebration, had been in Italy on Sept. 11. When located in the World Trade Center. The full (Top) Face painting was just one of myriad activities at a he returned home to his family, he said, “I impact of the disaster on all arts and culture downtown is not yet known. children’s party given Sept. 22 thought, I left heaven and came back to hell. I’m at a former firehouse on not going to stay in hell long. There are two But Jonathan Hollander, director of the Bat- Lafayette Street. options: Leave or help rebuild.” Jon Alpert, who tery Dance Company and a Tribeca resident, (Above) The Rev. William lives in the firehouse, heard that a group in wanted to show, if only briefly, that beauty could Grant held a meeting with Tribeca was looking for a place for a kids’ party rise from the tumult. Having constructed a stage Independence Plaza residents. and offered the space. in an unlikely spot, the Franklin Street subway station triangle, he presented a 10-minute solo (Right) The Battery Dance “I thought we would have 50 kids,” Alpert Company erected a stage said. “Instead, people came in droves.” at 8:00 a.m., on Sept. 26. It was choreographed near the Franklin Street sub- “Look at the energy,” Behr said. “A miracle by himself and danced by Tadej Brdnik. Some way entrance and Brdnik happened today.” viewers had come to watch. But many more Tadej performed a work by ❖ were passersby taken by surprise, as if encoun- the company’s director, Jonathan Hollander. The arts in Lower Manhattan took a direct hit tering some graceful apparition. on Sept. 11. The Lower Manhattan Cultural “I think we need to replace the image of dis- Council, which organizes events and supports aster and be the ones to say what our images artists and cultural institutions downtown, was should be,” said Hollander. “We all have a pur- pose in reaffirming what’s positive in life.” ■ 42 THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 43

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We extend our deepest sympathy to those suffering losses from the tragic events of September 11 and offer HARRISCHIROPRACTICCENTER our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all those who have aided them. 249 WEST BROADWAY At Battery Place, a visitor holds a photo (at the end of of the World Trade W E I S S + R E E D A R C H I T E C T S Center towers and Living and working on Greenwich Street since 1979 imagines them there North Moore St.) again. 226-6346

OutOut ofof thethe FireFire Terror may have emptied the polling place where he was working, As we all know, Tribeca is a the author says, disenfranchising thousands and delaying the vote. small town in a big city, But it did not stop democracy.

remarkable for its community polling place, disenfranchised thousands, and tion, she said, and it was discovered that the keys BY JIM STRATTON 179 Duane St. • Tribeca • 274-8447 delayed the vote. But it did not stop democracy. to the distribution truck were gone. www.madelines.net spirit, the support it gives its very one of us has a piece of the hor- The fringes of our neighborhood have again No problem, said the young man. They would Mon–Sat 8–6:30 Sun 9–5 ror. Say hello on the street and it been inundated by sightseers, cameras, reminis- hot-wire it. And it was done in 60 seconds, at the institutions and businesses and comes out, unprompted. Slack-jawed cent of the John Kennedy summer. At first, I service of the Red Cross. and wide-eyed, both speaker and lis- thought they were only the hawkers and the This is an aspect of our city and region that the camaraderie of its residents. tener. I was standing here, I saw this, gawkers, the ghoulish and the foolish. But on visitors often cannot understand. Compassion EI felt that. We still stop each other, share our fear, many faces I began to notice a common expres- does not appear to be present on the touristy our grief, even a week and more after life was sion, a distracted eye. Talking to a few, I discov- street corner, in the brusque flow of the subway Our deepest thanks to the My family and I want to express our changed for us forever. ered that the camera was not their only reason to crowd. Give us a good reason to show our It is good to talk about it, they tell us. It is be there. They needed to be connected in some humanity, however, and even a car thief will find firefighters, police, and all those part of healing. way to the experience, to the sorrow. some way to serve. sympathy to all those My wife, Cass, watched the huge silver jet, so Hundreds, thousands of miles from Tribeca, In many ways, our nation is lucky this who showed us humanity low it seemed she could touch it, soar down there are millions of people also directly con- tragedy happened here. New York City is strong, who lost a friend or relative Greenwich Street and disappear behind the wall nected. My brother in Rochester knew seven better able to absorb misery, hardship, devasta- of windows. people in the World Trade Center, including two tion, than most cities. at its finest. of our cousins. Luckily, all got out safely. An I have long held the belief that when bad in this national tragedy. She was not fooled. She knew what it was, and what it would mean. She ran to I.S. 89 to eighth he knew, a passenger on American Air- things happen first in New York City, we set the take our daughter out of school. lines Flight 11, did not. example for how to deal with them. Ours was the With the the rest of Tribeca, I, too, happened to be at that same school at We live in a small community, in a small first city to go bankrupt, and our recovery has New York’s Finest French Cleaners West and Chambers Streets, trying to open a world. been a model for other cities in trouble. My press tardy poll on Primary Day. “What happened?” a A Red Cross volunteer who drove a hundred card took me into the riots of Bed-Stuy, East 144 Reade Street 431-4010 we look forward to a day soon when poll worker asked me as I stepped back inside miles to distribute food told me this story. Two Harlem, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, and it seemed the school lobby, numb. “World War Three,” I city kids were part of the volunteer food opera- then that normal life might never emerge from the ballfields will be said, with no shred of humor, “but I guess we the fire. But it did, and no provocation since has should keep people voting.” lit the torch. green again, our schools Images haunted my waking mind for the next It will be a while before we in the shadow of three days. Running like cinéma verité, they put It will take a while to this disaster are back to normal, but we will get will bustle with activity, and the me inside hijacked airplanes, stricken buildings, there. Recovery, however, will require something into the eyes of evil minds. Throughout was the get back to normal but else that is usually in short supply among New crooked scar at the top of the north tower, decep- Yorkers. Patience. MANNA extraordinary neighborhood There is good evidence that our fast-paced tive, only a wisp of smoke and the tumble of we will get there. CATERING occasional debris—some of it human—from its neighborhood will take the time to persevere. On we live in will thrive once more. gap-toothed grin. Beyond the scar, a flicker of Recovery, however, the street corners, after the talk of the horror, is fire, but only a flicker, the mouth of hell twisted the talk of tomorrow, of getting back to work, of Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones. into the grim smile of a silhouetted airliner. will require something getting back to being ourselves. Our thanks to all those who so courageously At the time, I needed the focus of a voting Resiliency New York has, and backbone, and Paula Harris compassion. And, one hopes, patience. Stuff worked to save others. machine. else usually in short My wife sees this as symbolic. What sepa- which those who brought us this horror are hop- Dan Lenchner & Joni Greenspan rates us from the ancient roots of this terrorism is supply among ing we do not have. ■ our ability to go to the polls and vote our leaders Jim Stratton writes the City Charette column for 24 Harrison Street 966-3449 in or out of office. Terror may have emptied that New Yorkers. Patience. The Tribeca Trib. 46 THE TRIBECA TRIB OCTOBER 2001 47

My heartfelt condolences to all those who have lost loved ones. EMILY What You Should Know STEIN ENERGETIC HEALING PRACTITIONER Information and resources for the road to recovery

REFLEXOLOGY • REIKI CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY SCHOOLS DISASTER ASSISTANCE WASHINGTON MARKET P.S. 234 FEMA Assistance Center PARK The Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management Louis J. Lefkowitz State Office Building The park closed on Sept. 29 after an independent TEL (917) 596 9750 returned the P.S. 234 building to the Board of Educa- 141 Worth St. (Centre Street) consultant found asbestos in the sandbox and soil tion on Oct. 1 and the school is being cleaned, District [email protected] Our thoughts and prayers are with those of 800-462-9029 samples. The EPA removed all the sand and some 2’s spokesman said. At press time it remained unclear The Federal Emergency Management Agency exposed soil. As of Oct. 1, the park board was trying our community who are suffering from the devastating whether students and staff will be able to return to the (FEMA) has set up a disaster assistance center for to get the grass tested. Park Board Chair Linda school early this month or if they will move to the for- loss of a loved one. Also, we shall never forget the residents and businesses affected by the World Trade Lakhdhir said the park would reopen as soon as it GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE mer St. Bernard’s Parish School, now vacant, at 327 courage of the firemen, police and rescue workers who Center tragedy, with more than 20 agencies, includ- was confirmed safe, possibly by Oct. 6. West 13 St. ing FEMA, the city and state offices of emergency risked their lives and in some cases gave their lives to P.S./I.S. 89 management, the Small Business Administration CLEANUP save others. Their bravery represents the best of humanity. A Board of Education spokesman said that emer- (SBA) and the Department of Labor. Health and environmental officials recommend FIRST HEALTH PHYSICAL THERAPY, P.C. gency teams may be out of the schools’ Battery Park Residents and businesses seeking assistance that homes and offices with extensive dust be cleaned It is gratifying to see that so many of our customers, friends City building as early as Oct. 5 and that classes may should first register by phone. A FEMA representa- Our goal is to help people lead more productive, healthier, pain-free lives. professionally by a qualified company. The best way resume there by mid-October. But the schools’ prin- tive will conduct a short interview to determine what Our services include sports medicine, orthopaedic rehabilitation, and neighbors are returning home and have come through to remove dust is to use a wet rag or mop, according cipals toured the vacant St. Bernard’s Parish School programs and agencies can help. Have your social to the Health Department. If you vacuum, use a sports performance and general fitness training. this tragedy safely. The outpouring of concern and on Oct. 1, and the Board of Education and District 2 security number, insurance and income information, HEPA (high efficiency particulate) vacuum cleaner. support for Dudley’s Paw is greatly appreciated. were considering moving P.S. 89 and I.S. 89—or P.S. and details of losses on hand. PRE- AND POST-SURGICAL TMJ TENNIS ELBOW An inspector should call within a few days after Anyone cleaning up dust should wear a mask. REHABILITATION 234—there. you register to set up an appointment to assess dam- Health Department guidelines for people reoccu- SPORTS INJURIES ARTHRITIS Tribeca has always been a vibrant and resilient community. P.S. 150 BACK AND NECK PAIN pying homes or offices are available on the agency’s We have faith that the depth of our spirit and the strength of our The school was expected to open on Oct. 4 or ages, if appropriate. As of Oct. 2, 13,567 people had KNEE INJURIES CARPAL TUNNEL registered with FEMA, 4,159 units had been inspect- website, www.nyc.gov/health, and on flyers avail- SHOULDER (ROTATOR CUFF) SYNDROME shortly thereafter. The Board of Education said initial able around downtown. Insurance policies or govern- INJURIES ANKLE SPRAINS determination will carry us through as we heal and rebuild. ed and 2,600 households had received financial assis- air quality tests showed that the school is safe and ment assistance programs may cover cleanup costs. that follow-up tests were being conducted. tance, a FEMA spokesman said. For displaced residents, the FEMA Disaster We treat the whole body, not just the parts. 327 Greenwich St. 966-5167 Stuyvesant High School Housing Program offers rental assistance grants to GROUND ZERO The school is expected to open on Oct. 9. The cover the costs of temporary shelter and some living ASK ORCE 130 Franklin Street Mon-Fri 11-7 Sat 10-6 Board of Education spokesman said that asbestos expenses. Grants may be available to make an apart- T F (Millefleurs Day Spa) Appointments: 941-1925 was found in the school and a cleanup is underway. ment habitable. Two days after the terrorist attack, Representa- The SBA offers low-interest loans to qualified tive Jerrold Nadler organized a task force to assess AIR QUALITY businesses, renters and homeowners to replace prop- the needs and concerns of Lower Manhattan resi- A coalition of city, state and federal environ- erty or make major repairs. New York State’s Indi- dents and businesses, and to channel those concerns mental and health agencies, led by the federal Envi- vidual and Family Grants Program may provide to disaster management officials. ronmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been testing assistance to cover lost personal property, and the The task force, which includes representatives of WILLIAM B.MAY air and dust samples in Lower Manhattan. state Department of Labor’s Disaster Unemployment all local elected officials, the Manhattan Borough OLD WORLD VALUES, NEW WORLD VISION, SINCE 1866 Most dust samples have shown asbestos levels Assistance program provides compensation for lost President’s office and Community Board 1, meets below those considered hazardous, but the EPA has income. regularly. It has advocated more comprehensive air found “levels of asbestos above the level of concern” If you have insurance, government assistance quality testing, better dissemination of health infor- in some samples, according to a spokeswoman. Risk may pay for basic needs not covered by your policy. mation, faster and greater access to closed streets and homes, and the reopening of schools. In the first of health damage is “directly linked to the length of Red Cross Family Assistance Center Our hearts go out to the exposure,” the EPA says, and the levels found thus weeks after Sept. 11, the group coordinated mobile At CWA Local 1180 far would only be a hazard for people exposed to health units, arranged for prescriptions to be filled in (corner of Harrison and Hudson Streets) them over many years. Government agencies are areas crippled by the disaster, and pushed for com- families and victims of the The American Red Cross center in Tribeca, cleaning up dust containing higher levels of asbestos mercial deliveries to closed-off areas. which served more than 1,000 clients in its first 10 with special large vacuum cleaners. days, aids those who lost family members or homes World Trade Center tragedy. After prodding by the Ground Zero Task Force, GREENMARKET and anyone else affected by the disaster. Assistance made up of elected officials and representatives of The Greenmarket is operating from 8 a.m. to includes grants for emergency expenses, vouchers Community Board 1 (CB1), government agencies 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the parking We are grateful to the heroes for food and clothing, help finding temporary shelter, began collecting samples in more locations and test- lot on Worth Street and West Broadway. medication replacement, cleanup kits, crisis counsel- ing for lead, PCBs, dioxin and other potential toxins, ing and spiritual advice. Other centers are located at and they took dust samples from the window sills of of the FDNY, NYPD, the Carmine Street Recreation Center, at Seventh BPC RESOURCES selected residential buildings. Results were not avail- Avenue and Clarkson Street, and in DeWitt Clinton Information for BPC residents is posted at able at press time. Park, on West Street between 53rd and 54th streets. www.batteryparkdisplaced.org. There are links to Emergency Workers and Volunteers. Some local elected officials and community You can also call the Red Cross helpline at 212- join the BPC Residents’ Association and “Special leaders, however, say they are skeptical about the 219-6200. Individual phone counseling is available. Interest Group” links for Gateway Plaza residents reassurances from environmental and health agen- May the spirit of our country To volunteer, make a donation or find information and tenants in buildings owned by the Rockrose Cor- cies. CB1 chair Madelyn Wils, Councilwoman about Red Cross services, visit www.nyredcross.org poration. You can read and post messages on a bul- Kathryn Freed and Alan Gerson, Freed’s probable or call 877-RED-CROSS. letin board at bpc.mobile123.com. guide us to new beginnings. successor, brought in three independent experts who Gateway Plaza tenants can call their landlord, took samples on Sept. 18 at three sites: 176 Broad- Legal Assistance the Lefrak Organization, at 718-575-4732 or -4777, 626-7373 way, 45 Warren St. and one of the Gateway Plaza or visit www.lefrak.com. The company is posting Be safe, be well! The Association of the Bar of the City of New buildings in Battery Park City. Results are expected information about Gateway buildings on the website. York has set up a free referral service for people early this month. Check the CB1 website at Disaster Assistance in BPC www.cb1.org. seeking disaster-related legal aid. The group will A FEMA assistance center is at 99 Battery Place. THE ODEON For updates on EPA’s air quality monitoring and attempt to match every client with a lawyer who will provide legal services, advice or help in finding The Red Cross has centers at 99 Battery Place and Karen Gastiaburo, Sales Manager 212-962-6293 ext.102 Proud to be in Tribeca since 1980! dust testing go to www.epa.gov/air/nyc or call 888- 283-7626. appropriate resources. You can also find a list of pro 300 Rector Place. Three insurance carriers, Allstate, 51A Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 145 West Broadway GIANFRANCO GORGONI 1967 Travelers and State Farm, are accepting casualty  City Health Department information can be bono legal services at www.nysba.org/public/map/ www.williambmay.com 233.0507 claims in the parking lot across from 70 Battery Place PHOTO: found at www.nyc.gov/health, or call 212-213-1844. newyork.html. on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Manhattan Youth needs your help Dear Neighbors, Manhattan Youth, Lower Manhattan’s only nonprofit youth agency, in existence since 1986, cares for more than 700 children after school each day. Although the schools in which we normally operate — P.S. 150, 234 and 89 — are closed, our after-school and enrichment programs are up and running in our host schools. We are doing our best to keep going, despite major challenges. Our pools and piers are damaged. We’ve been closed out of our new space on Warren Street. If we can’t open there soon, we will need 15,000 square feet of space for our operations. We also plan to begin our drive to build the Downtown Community Center, a clearing- house for information and center for family activities, as soon as possible. Your contribution to Manhattan Youth supports • weekend and evening programs • family counseling and community gatherings • child care • enrichment activities • transportation to grocery stores for Battery Park City residents • the Lower Manhattan Family Fund, founded in 1986, assisting families with fees for after-school activities, summer camp or college applications At Manhattan Youth, we mourn the loss of a former participant in our football program, and friends. But despite our grief in the wake of the recent tragedy, our determination has not weakened. We will rebuild our community — with your help. Sincerely yours,

Bob Townley Linda Roche Executive Director Chairperson

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