BY CYNTHIA MAGNUS | More visitors continued to flock to Zuccotti Park, and Community Board 1 continued to try to liaise with the protestors that are camping out there, as Occupy Wall Street entered its fourth week on Saturday. Over a thousand protesters gathered on Saturday, Oct. 8 at Washington Square Park to hold a [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | If the managers of the National September 11 Memorial were concerned that few Lower Manhattan residents would bother to show up at the memorial for the four hours on Oct. 2 reserved exclusively for them, they worried in vain. On the first of what are planned to be monthly evenings [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Downtown residents’ wish to have their own ceremony at the National Sept. 11 Memorial for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was never granted. Instead they were given what some community members feel is an equally good opportunity for reflection: special access to the memorial on the first Sunday of every month. [...]
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BY JOHN BAYLES | On Saturday morning work at the World Trade Center site came to a brief halt. Welders stopped welding, cement workers stopped pouring cement and bricklayers stopped laying bricks. Construction workers directed their attention to a single piece of steel. It wasn’t a piece of steel they had been working on — [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | A group of 9/11 families are protesting the National September 11 Memorial and Museum’s plan to preserve the remains of their loved ones 70 feet below the World Trade Center site. The Memorial and Museum, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office and the City Medical Examiner’s office, plans to place the [...]
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