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W’ T T' ■ ■ ■ • -''fl J TiN: o o c 3 nocturnal memorial to World Trade j also applies to buses and emergency anybody else,” Mr. Bloomberg said. .• ’I is CD 3 Center victims will go dark in mid- I vehicles during those hours. That “It has always been contentious as to April as planned, but may be incor- {Xarated into a permanent memorial. lane will run from the Verrazano- Narrows Bridge across the Gowanus who really could get on to the plat­ form. This will solve that problem,” as sio Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said j Expressway to the tunnel, Mr. Btomberg said. Some of those family members, present at the news conference an­ i SB 4^ yesterday, r. .'‘When we first did it, a lot of the j j 'I CT” -af Also yesterday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey an­ nouncing the roadway openings, said they were pleased about the new ’ .art- ‘U tainilies of those we lost were | against it, cecause they felt it would j nounced that the Holland Tunnel is to center, as well as a decision an­ become the permanent memorial | reopen three Manhattan-bound lanes nounced by Gov, George E. Pataki Cfi"',. Z a ” .and they wanted something they for cash-paying drivers at 7 a.m. that city officials had agreed that a thought was more fitting,” Mr. today. The three center lanes will be tent where ground zero workers can Bloomberg said on his weekly call-in j for E-ZPass users, while three lanes eat and shower would remain open .radio program, which took no calls yesterday. - ,‘T think we should consider lights j 1 j L" on the far left will remain closed to allow the demolition of the Jersey City warehouse that caught fire last for at least the nest few weeks, and perhaps for a month, if necessary. That decision, Mr, Pataki said, a§ part of the permanent memorial,” j fe-Y,?;-. ’■ week. would ensure "that those rescue Nicole Bengivewi/The New York Times be added, although he cautioned j As part of the alterations near workers who are down here still 24 Police officers in the middle of West Street, before it reopened to traffic ■gainst the expense. • ’ ground zero, the Lower Manhattan hours a day have an appropriate ■,The temporary memorial, Tribute The New York Times Development Corporation is setting place where they can sit and eat and yesterday evening. A stretch of the road had been closed since Sept. 11. in Light, costs hundreds of thousands Six lanes of West Street near up a new locatien, a room next to its bathe and just go about the activities of dollars a month to maintain, Mr. ground zero reopened last night. offices on the 20th floor of 1 Liberty they have to when they’re not down two women who lost relatives in the wanted his reassurance in the pres­ Bhxjtnberg said, adding that the ' Plaza, where families can view the at ground zero Itself.” attack to promise to keep the tent up ence of the news media and witness­ agreement with the residents of Bat­ been closed to traffic since Sept. 11. site where their loved ones perished. Officials said earlier this week until the end of the recovery opera­ es to ensure that officials would not tery Park City limits its glow to In addition, the Brooklyn-Battery The room, which will include an area that the tent would have to be taken tion. change their decision. about a month. for children, will be open weekdays down so that the Battery Park City Mr. Bloomberg sought te reassure She said she and other relatives of Tunnel, the last major crossing still .Several developments involving from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m, and on week­ Authority could use the area as a them by repeating, “I hear you,” and victims and workers could take shut down after the terror attack, the World Trade Center site were ends and holidays from 8 a.m. to 6 parking lot for businesses that are reminding them that Mr. Pataki had great comfort in knowing that the «noiince<.J yesterday, from reopened reopened last night, and will be sub­ p.m,, beginning April 8. reopening, but family groups 'were said the tent would stay up as long as workers had a place to go for coffee roadways to a new family viewing ject to traffic restrictions similar to Officials said that the room ’was adamant that it remain open. necessary', but he stopped short of and emotional support. Speaking of arpa to the fate of a tent nicknamed those governing other crossings be­ set up in response to the families’ After the news conference, Mr. the full commitment they sought. the residents of Battery Park City, :thje Taj Mahal by ground zero work­ ginning on Monday, officials said, requests for greater privacy and be­ Bloomberg, who bad said that it Martha Butler, who lost her hus­ she said, "They want their park, ers. Cars carrying fewer than two occu­ cause the view of the site has been would be “more than appropriate” to band, Tom, a firefighter from Squad their area back, but I want my hus­ , Last night, officials reopened six pants into Manhattan will not be per­ obstructed as recovery work has have a ceremony honoring the work­ 1 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, said that band back, and that’s what I need to lanes of West Street between Cham- mitted between 6 a.m, and 10 a,m., moved underground. ers when the recovery operation she thought the mayor understood bring some kind of comfort to my and Albany Streets that had and there is a new lane open only to “What the families will have here came to a close, was beseeched by- her position, but suggested that she family.”