EPA press release on Williamsburg youth job training, Dec 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Lighting theWay Throughout City Torchbearers carry Olympic spirit, inspiration By Regine Labossiere STAFF WKTTEE aboard United Airlines Flight 93, A former Olympic speed skater who Today, the light comes to New York which crashed in Shanksville, Pa., competed in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herze- Cily. Sept. 11. Ghck received a phone call govina, in 1984, Lydia Stephans of And before the Olympic flame leaves 'her husband while aboard the Slope also is carrying the torch New York on Wednesday, it wiU have Plane, asking if he should attack the hi- today. passed through all five boroughs, car- jackers and she answered yes. Raymond Lurn^ of Wphst^ ried by people whose lives have in- Kathy Goldman founded the Com- a member of the 1948 gold-med^ ■spired otbere--------- ---------------------munity Pood Resource Center in 1980 H'®; 0’™*= The Olympic torch —engraved with and her organization offers a wide SS the 19th Winter Olympics motto, range of assistance to residents in Har- M “ scheduled lem Mdman who fives on Upper director for the New York Athletic to take off today at 10:35 a.m. on Stat- West Side, will cany the torch today. 42 years, is carrying the torch en Island. John Gill’s only son was one of the today. The torchbearers, including New firefighters first on the scene at the The public can view the Olympic York Yankees manager Joe Torre and World Trade Center. Gill, from College torch route on the Web site “Superman” Christopher Reeve, will Point, will pass the torch today. www.nyc2012.coin. carry it through Brooklyn. Torchbearers will cany the flame through Queens, then ride the Christo­ pher Columbus ferry, which leaves Torch’s NYC Ro After today’s lordtnm I Torch run crosses West 50th St., from the New York Waterway termi­ I goes up Sixth Ave. and ends : nal at Borden Avenue in Hunters eliminates with an I at Rockefeller Plaza Point. evening ceremony at The ferry will pass lower Manhattan Rockefeller Plaza, the J and make its way to Pier 90. Among Olympic flame g in NYC until Wednesday, J the people taking the torch to Rock­ efeller Center from the pier at West whenitthensiwil.beam ,'/< Plena through Manhattan and O 50th Street are Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter and Mayor Rudolph the Bronx en route to ihe g/J Giuliani. The mayor will cany the next stop on the tour, 1 QUEENS torch for the last two-tenths of a mile New Haven, Conn. before lighting the cauldron in Rock­ efeller Center, putting the flame to Woodhaven k Blvd. rest for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Wednesday morning, the torch will 1 ■F begin its procession from Rockefeller Center, through Manhattan and the Bronx, and on to New Haven, Conn. afcr Grand Aimy Plaza Atlantic Ave.

The Olympic Torch relay will cross 46 states in 65 days, carried by 11,500 torchbearers. Two-hundred forty of those torchbearers will carry the Olym­ BROOKLYN pic spirit through New York City. The torchbearers were nominated 4th Ave. by family members, friends and col­ leagues who wrote essays explaining Venazane- how the nominees embodied the Olym­ Exit 12J r^Tows Bridge pic spirit and provided inspiration to Torch run begins STATEN at Slosson Ave. their communities. ISLAND .on Staten Island Lyzbeth Glick of New Jersey will carry the flame today in honor of her husband, Jeremy Glick, who was Newsday / Rod Byer

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