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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document 19

Ground Zero residents reoccupy apts. By ADAM MILLER Nearly 16 months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the displaced residents of 125 Cedar St. — the closest apartments to the Twin Towers — are finally back in their homes. And the 39 tenants of the charming, century-old 12-story . building that stands 300 feet from Ground Zero couldn't have been more ecstatic yesterday about finally reclaiming their beloved loft apartments. Andy Jurinko and his wife, Pat Moore, were in their third-floor apart- ment when the two hi- jacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center. The tower collapse' blew out 15 windows in their apartment and left chunks of debris in- cluding parts of one of the planes and a blasted- out computer monitor — along with mounds of dirt and dust. r • "It feels wonderful and BACK HERE Junnko and wile iai w uu ii,

N.Y.Post Michael No cia Cedar St. as decimated by the Sept. 11 attacks. 11V1 N.Y. exciting to be back in our again after their building att 125 0 home," said Jurinko, 63, a said original pioneers who painter. of uncertainty," "It is such a relief. Scherzee, a lawyer. "I feel took the once-derelict of- so relieved. But there's fice building. and turned We've been through so jewel much. Our loft was like a still a lot of cleaning to it into a residential and low do." with large lofts minefield of glass, rocks, rents 25 years ago. .debris and dust. It was The grateful tenants yesterday made state As- "This is a dream come like a war zone." Moore, _ a fashion de- sembly Speaker Sheldon true," said Gail Langsner, signer, added: "It's fabu- Silver (D-Manhattan) an who moved back into her lous to be back home. "honorary resident" for apartment Dec.15. his work fighting to en- "Pm just so glad to be -We've waited a long time for this day. It's amazing. sure the building will re- back home. The force of We're just so grateful be- main standing regardless the blast was tremendous. cause . we didn't know if what is built on Ground It was like an earth- Zero. quake." . we'd ever be allowed Mary Dierickx, who re- back." At a press conference Mark Scherzee, 51, a yesterday, Silver said the' turned to her 11th-floor resident of the building residents would be the apartment Dec. 28, said since 1978, moved back "pillars of building a new she's "thrilled to be back." • into, his penthouse apart- community in downtown "After all we've been New York." .- ' through, it's terrific to be ment last week. DEVASTATION: Pat Moore. deans up the mess last "It's great to be back be- Many of the tenants, in- -home," she said. "It's un- August left by the WTC collapse.

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