2 Health Groups
Head Downtown
By Alan J, Wax
STArfWEITEE
Two health-related organizations with a strong in
terest in air quality are moving their headquarters
to lower Manhattan.
The American" Lung Association and the American
Thoracic Society plan to move 120 people from their
current ofEces at 1740 Broadway atWest 56th Street
to space at 61 Broadway subleased from a dot-com
business.
“We;.. are comfortable with the indoor air quality
in our new office space at 61 Broadway,” John L.
Kirkwood, the lung association’s president and chief
executive, said.- Kirfcwood said the new space had
been tested by independent industrial hygienists.
“We have concluded that there is no contamination,”
he added, noting that air quality at the new offices
will continue to be monitor^.
In addition. Kirkwood-said that while'“outdoor air
quality has returned to pre-Sept. 11 background lev
els, there is still need for substantial improvement.”
The lung association, he said, is urging downtown
residents and businesses to test and dean their own
premises to be certain there, is no contamination
from the collapse of the World -Trade Center.
Area residents and workers have been concerned
about the. air in their apartments and offices since
clouds of dust swept through the area after the WTC
buildings collapsed.
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