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...group heads for the Tribeca Grand, a boutique hotel less than a mile north of the Trade Center...
...neighborhood is TriBeCa (for Triangle Below Canal Street, and if you don?t mind I?ll drop the second and third capital letters from now on). You may have seen us on TV recently: we?re not far from the former World Trade Center. How not-close? Well, these days, anyone who lives or works in lower Manhattan brags about how close they are to Ground Zero. I live on Hudson Street, three blocks above Chambers Street - eight blocks from the northern hem of the World Trade Center complex. Or maybe we?re closer. In a recent interview...
...Yorkers don?t know how short Manhattan?s north-south streets are. So, to put it in terms the American driving public can understand, we?re four-tenths of a mile away from the great crematorium. Tribeca is the nice place near the awful place: Beverly Hills down the block from Bosnia. But proximity to an instant cemetery gives us a vicarious creepiness, what with the acrid stench of compressed steel and flesh, and the constant police presence; a few weeks ago a three-foot concrete barricade was erected around the Western Union Building across the street, presumably because...
...Tribeca is a mix of low-rise housing and looming old warehouses, renovated into one of the city?s snazzier real estate grabs. I like it, in part, because I live there; but also because the architecture - venerable, solid, ornate - suits me; and, even more so, because Tribeca is shouldered, sometimes elbowed, by other neighborhoods with personalities as different from each other as Omaha from Islamabad...
...buildings," and saw people jumping to their deaths. And the reason he is freshly outfitted and eating out is that he and his parents Julio Rosario and Joan Lader have been living a vagabond existence since Sept. 11. They have moved four times since they were evacuated from their Tribeca apartment two blocks north of ground zero. They have relied on the kindness of friends, who have found them vacant apartments or taken them in. Lucas has been doubly displaced--from his home and from Public School 234, which has moved twice since Sept. 11. And now bedtime offers little...