Lower Manhattan

On September 11 , 2001 millions of americans were astonished by the horrible news that the World Trade Center was hit by two planes. With nearly 3,000 people dead and hundreds injured in America was under a terrorist attack .In the novel “Falling Man” by Don DeLillo, it focuses on a businessman by the name of Keith Neudecker who had survived the attack on the World trade center. Throughout the book you get a vivid image of Keith life from when he’s walking through the streets during the attack on

In this past month there have been several bombings in Sunset Towers Apartment Complex. The first bombing took place in the coffee shop located on floor one. The second bombing took place in Shin Hoo's Restaurant on the fifth floor. The third bombing took place in Apartment 3D. The fourth bombing took place in the elevator of the the pied floor. The coffee shop where the first bomb went off is owned by Catherine and George Theodorakis. The bomb went off in the kitchen. Thankfully no one was

Communication problems Thousands of calls were made from the twin towers as the planes struck them, but no one ever heard them On September 11 2001 the world trade centers were both struck by two Boeing 747 passenger planes. According to Crisis Communication: Lessons from 9/11. “The attack knocked out 300,000 voice access lines and 4.5 million data circuits and left ten cellular towers inactive, depriving 14,000 businesses and 20,000 residential customers of service”. So people were trapped inside

Did you know, that one person escaped the tower with seconds to spare? A man named Ron DiFrancesco was trying to escape from the South tower, after the North Tower had been attacked, when the second hijacked plane hit between floor 77 and floor 85 of the South Tower. The explosion threw him against the wall, but, however, he was able to carry on to the ground floor from floor 81 in the same time the building was standing after the attack, and then it had collapsed behind him as he was escaping

1992 - 2006 The first tower to collapse from the 9/11 attack was the South Tower. 15 minutes after the attack Apollo was the first to arrive. Apollo would be at the scene working several weeks, 18 hours a day. He would be assisting the injured victims and searching for any possible human remains. While doing his job there was one point where he was almost killed by falling rubble and fire. Every day he was given baths to wash off the dangerous contaminants at the scene. While he was there he

Day 1 - Fulton Street - Lower Manhattan Shortly after swiping her Metro Card, a young woman walked past a man lying on the floor who was swaddled in a blanket and stopped short of her intended destination. His butterscotch skin tone complimented the freckles across his cheeks, not to mention the subtle cleft in his chin that she knew all too well. She spun around and observed him while he slept as though he were on an outdoor retreat and not lying on the dingy subway platform. Then, an oncoming

that is generally open and accessible to people. Roads, public squares, parks and beaches are typically considered public space. Battery Park City truly supplies all these three environments. Battery Park City is located along the west side of Lower Manhattan. It is

Although its long played second fiddle to Midtown and Downtown Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn is one of the hottest office markets in the New York metropolitan area – and with good reason! The neighborhood has much to offer prospective tenants, including affordable rents and an excellent transportation infrastructure. For companies seeking a more affordable alternative to Midtown and Lower Manhattan that’s fairly easy to get to, Downtown Brooklyn is hard to beat. A 2004 rezoning by the Bloomberg Administration

When the Native American tribe sold the island of Manhattan to Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India for some beads and wampum whose equivalent value was less than $30 today, they would not have had imagined that Manhattan became one of the hottest land on earth, from a real estate market standpoint and other kinds of development standpoints as well. Lower Manhattan, also known as downtown Manhattan, encompasses not only the famous financial district that has long been in people’s sweetest dream

Manhattan is my hometown, which is the main and part of five boroughs of New York City. Furthermore, it is the most populous city in the United States, being the premier gateway of all legal immigration into the country. Growing up in Manhattan was an epitome of excitement. Back in the day, and also to its founding, New York has always been a beehive of activities. Going down memory lane, I reminisce on trips that we’d take to loads of places around the city for entertainment during weekends and