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1^ By RANDY KENNEDY staff meeting. “I miss those staff “0 o o o 'The tens of thousands of New Yorkers who will return to work in 0 I It 11 I t1 r , I Bi meetings,” the mayor said. “I miss that almost as much as 1 miss the c CT o' O1 ro oo thp financial district today will pick their way through a radically re­ drawn map of Lower Manhattan, And a tour of these recently re­ rr rv 11 L >■ ‘I Yankees.” But while City Hall may run nor­ mally today, the Wall Street that most workers will return to is not the "□ o 03 O o opened streets yesterday provided a I one they left. Sanitation Department o c preview of the jarring scenes that water trucks, street scrubbers and 3 will greet workers flooding back into truck-sized vacuum cleaners have CD 3 a,part of the city that has literally accomplished a remarkable cleanup bden carved out of the mayhem sur­ of inches of ash, paper and broken rounding it. glass on most streets. But one needs "According to the new map of Low­ only to tilt one’s head to see boarded- er Manhattan, one that will probably bi up skyscraper windows and a layer of soot that, for blocks and blocks, he used for months to come, the western boundary of the island is now not the water, but a ragged line "l a coats every building from the aw­ nings to the top floors. that runs along the middle of the Electricity has been restored to island. Yesterday, it was along Wil­ some buildings. But outside many liam Street, slicing off a triangle­ others sat rumbling diesel genera­ o shaped third of the tip of Manhattan tors that, along with platoons of for a return to life. The boundary — Robert Bukaty/Associaled Press dump trucks and jackhammers, marked by metal barricades, yellow A police officer cleared people off Wall Street yesterday as the financial made the whole area sound like the police tape or in many places only a runway of an airport, district prepared for the New York Stock Exchange’s opening today. lone national guardsman with a rifle John S. Dyson, a former deputy — may move as far west as Broad­ mayor who is helping to get Wall way by today. time,” said Tom Quirke, who poured months to come. “The police and the Street up and running, said that Yesterday within those bound- drinks at the White Horse Tavern on National Guard, they stopped me and more telephone service had been re­ ar'les, hundreds of people struggled Bridge Street. "But there are also made me open up the boxes,” he stored than officials had thought pos­ tol prepare for what will try to pass going to be people who come back said. “They seen it was just bagels, sible. But no dne will know how it will ai a normal business day. At Del- here tomorrow and go to work like and they let me through. I’m glad hold up until thousands of phones nfonico’s, the venerable restaurant nothing’s happened. And that’s going they did it, though.” begin to ring this morning. “People where F. Scott Fitzgerald dined, a to be so strange.” Inside the Regent hotel on Wall should not be calling up and having a waiter arranged linen napkins and Strange, though, seemed like too Street, workers were wiping ash off long chat with grandma,” he said. polished wine glasses on immaculate weak a word to convey what it felt the leaves of plants in the lobby and Besides rescue workers and police tables for today’s meals. But then he like in the financial district, whose shaking off bright yellow table um­ officers, those who return to Wall wiped a thick layer of strange, yel- geography slowly and painstakingly brellas on the balconies. The hotel’s Street will also jostle for space with loWish dust from the windowsills. began to be reclaimed for business general manager, Christopher Ena­ another group of people who have 'Along State Street, bikers biked as Saturday and yesterday. ble, said that even though the hotel begun to fill the streets near the irfey do on brilliant late-summer The tasks ranged from the Hercu­ would not reopen until Friday, he financial district: tourists. days. But they wore goggles and lean — like repairing water, elec­ wanted it to “put on a good face for “I’ve talked to people who’ve driv­ breathing masks, and they looked tricity and phone lines and then cov­ Monday’s bell.” And to that end, the en down here from Boston, up from into a closed-off Battery Park, where ering over newly shredded streets staff will be back in uniform and all Georgia, just to see this,” said Mr. hundreds of soldiers massed, as if for with huge metal plates — to the the fixtures polished by today, to Quirke, the bartender at the White war. Near Wall Street, a group of mundane but necessary — like a create the illusion that visitors have Horse Tavern. On the streets outside, Russian tourists snapped pictures of delivery of fresh bagels to a deli on left behind Tuesday’s events. whole families could often be seen, one another, as tourists do. But they Hanover Street from a bakery in Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said carrying video cameras and wearing pdsed near a red Mercury Topaz Williamsburg, Brooklyn. that at City Hall, which has been all fanny packs, assembled at the barri­ made brown under a coat of ash, A deliveryman trembled slightly but deserted since Tuesday, the cades to get the best view of the upon which someone had scrawled, yesterday morning and drew on a cleanup had been finished. And to­ smoking wreckage in the distance. “Help us all.” cigarette as he described what will day, he and his deputies will move “It’s hard to believe,” Mr. Quirke • “Some people are going to stay probably be the order of the day for back Into the city’s seat of govern­ said. “Like it’s some sort of amuse­ away from here for a long, long any deliveries into the area for ment and hold their regular 8 a.m. ment park,”