The Hands Across Lower Manhattan event, hosted by Community Board 1, is now official. Beginning this Thursday, Aug. 11, members of the public can log onto www.handinhand911.org to register for the event, which will take place on Saturday, Sept. 10. People will be able to register as individuals or as a group. “Several days before [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Park51 developer and SoHo Properties Chief Executive Officer Sharif El-Gamal is trying to put the project’s tumultuous history behind him. A mosque and community center proposed for 45-51 Park Place have become two separate fundraising ventures, according to El-Gamal. The developer is establishing the future mosque, which he recently dubbed “PrayerSpace,” [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | John Devlin, 50, was a healthy, athletic engineer who never smoked. In 2009, however, after toiling at Ground Zero following 9/11, he developed a disease often associated with a longtime chain smoker: throat cancer. The cause of his cancer, though not yet scientifically proven, seems painfully obvious to Devlin and scores [...]
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In some small town somewhere in this country a family is planning a trip to Lower Manhattan for the week of Sept. 11. They are coming to New York City to pay their respects and to honor the victims who lost their lives and the heroes who gave theirs in the wake of the worst [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS AND TERESE LOEB KREUZER | For many years, free medical treatment has been available to residents, students and Lower Manhattan workers who were exposed to the Sept. 11, 2001 attack and its aftermath. But the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act that Pres. Barack Obama signed into law in January 2011 [...]
Continue reading …Three thousand flags displaying the names of all of those that died on 9/11 will be installed in Battery Park the week before September 11th. Rows of banners attached to the flags, known as the “Flags of Honor,” will contain the names of the victims. The flags will line the park on the lawns that [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Celebrating America’s rich ethnic diversity is a critical part of the 9/11 healing process, according to Charlotte’s Place, which has come up with its own unique way to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11. The Trinity Church community center, located at 109 Greenwich St., is collecting pieces of cloth for [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Forty-seven-year-old Ken George, a 9/11 first responder, is too sick to work due to his exposure to Ground Zero toxins. George was forced to retire in 2006, a year after having a heart attack that doctors believe was precipitated by steroids and other medication he was taking for his respiratory [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | J&R Music & Computer World is vying for an ambitious reward for the company’s neighborhood-friendly efforts during its 40-year existence Downtown. The electronics store, situated along Park Row between Ann and Beekman Sts., is requesting that part of the thoroughfare be named “J&R row” to pay tribute to its 40th anniversary [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Sheila Birnbaum, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, talks about her objectives as the newly appointed administrator of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and how her previous experience mediating wrongful death and personal injury law suits of nearly 100 families and 9/11 victims makes her equipped for [...]
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