JANUARY 2004

 

 



New PATH Terminal for the World Trade Center
The new PATH terminal for the World Trade Center site will land astride Church Street like a glass-and-steel bird with up-stretched wings. At the unveiling of the design at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, Mayor Bloomberg said the building " appears to take flight, just like the neighborhoods it serves."
Posted January 25
 
Community Board 1 Responds to Freedom Tower
Architect David Childs, towering over a model of what will be the tallest building in the world, gave a sweeping presentation to the Community Board 1's World Trade Center Redevelopment Committee on Jan. 7. The committee reacted favorably to the design, but questioned Childs about the building's impact on the community.
Posted January 9

Read reviews of the Freedom Tower by six Downtown architects.

Winning Memorial Plan Is Unveiled
The refined version of Reflecting Absence, the winning design for the World Trade Center memorial, was unveiled on Jan. 14. Changes to the once-stark design appeared to reflect many of the criticisms of the original design.
Posted January 17

Vendor Crackdown Clears Canal Street
A big bust of fake goods and beefed-up police presence sends many sellers packing.
Posted January 5
 
Air Filters Still Gather Downtown Dust
Remember when HEPA was hip? A report on what Downtowners are we doing with those remnants of a time when danger was still in the air.
Posted January 5
 
Brooklyn, Downtown Tussle
In the 17th century, the Dutch and the British wrestled for control of Governors Island. Later, it was the British and the Americans. Now, it’s Brooklynites and Lower Manhattanites as a Brooklyn community board claims jurisdiction over Governors Island.
Posted January 4
 
Second Try No Charm for Proposed Building
Hoping to placate the people who live nearby, Samuel Ramirez, Jr. returned to Community Board 1 last month with a design for a shorter version of the building he wants to put at the northwest corner of Hubert and Greenwich streets.
Posted January 5
 
Hidden Cameras Capture Trade Center Rebirth

Through the black-curtained window of a closet at the offices of Dow Jones, a movie camera peers down, nine stories, at Ground Zero. Every five minutes it quietly whirs, taking one more picture. At five other hidden perches—47 stories high in the World Financial Center, atop buildings on Broadway and Church Street, at the firehouse on Liberty Street, and in the churchyard of St. Paul’s—cameras record the orange-vested workers and lumbering bulldozers on the 16-acre World Trade Center site.
Posted January 5

In Its Own Way, ‘10 House’ Marks Return
The mayor and the governor had visited weeks before, marking the reopening of the firefighters' Liberty Street house with a ribbon cutting ceremony. And the men also had been feted with a big "Welcome Back" party at Embassy Suites. But in early December, two months after a $3.5 million renovation of their firehouse, badly damaged on Sept. 11, the guys of Ladder 10 and Engine 10 came together in their own way to celebrate the return of their house..
Posted January 4
 
Looking at the Freedom Tower
When the world's tallest building is erected on the World Trade Center site, its impact will be most profound on Lower Manhattan's residents and workers. The Trib asked six Downtown architects for their views.
Posted January 4
IN BRIEF
More Battery Park City Traffic Lights?
Tribeca Kayaker Rescued by Ferry
Residential Grants
Kids' Touch Football
Safe Boating Course
Calling Tribeca Artists
Blood Donation Center
90 West Street Renovation
Walking Tour: In African Footsteps
To walk in the footsteps of the city’s first African-Americans is to take a journey through Lower Manhattan that is both painful and inspiring. A unique walking tour tells the story of African-Americans in New York's earliest days.
Posted January 4

 
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