WTC Records Folder 0124 Clippings label, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

09-25 - 01 16:5a The Regent Wall Street ID -2126995611 PO4/04 :.ultl - VVO11 J" C..%. "vim-' `-"~•r -- "-

donated foodstuffs, as did Once the hotel used up all its food, local restaurateurs City Harvest. a not-for-profit charity. at the hotel until Sunday Hotel workers pitched in, Genders said, many stayingJames Beard Award so they could be there to help. Chef John Halligan, a time, serving them winner, set about cooking 600 pounds of chicken at a cafeteria-style- Genden said, "People would "it was amazing, it was absolutely amazing." literally sneak through the barricades to get down to the Regent to help."

heads on the table to Rescuers would often arrive to eat and, exhausted, lay their wash their faces and bathroom to sleep, he said. When they awoke they'd use the go back out. rest they had gotten in days," "I watched people cry because it was the first Genden said. power was restored to The meals and naps went on until Tuesday night, when reopen for paying hotel began preparing to other buildings in the area. The clientele. blanketed the hotel and nearly That required extensive cleaning, since ash had cleaned, as has bedding everything inside it. Air conditioning ducts have been and curtains. Furniture has been steam cleaned.

The Regent is slated to reopen Friday, Genders said. former floor of the New The hotel is an historic landmark: the ballroom is the the custom House and the York Stock Exchange. and the building used to house Merchant Exchange. been at the center of This is not the first time the Wall Street location has Alexander Hamilton, who history. Before the building went up, the home of U.S. Constitution and played a key role in fought for the ratification of the stood on the site. defining the role of government in the national economy, Herman Melville worked When it served as the Customs House, the author there. vault so big that it's now And, though the hotel was once a bank, and contains.a reminder§ ofa meaner existence: used as a meeting room, the building retains are still in die basement. the cells used by die Customs House for prisoners

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