NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
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Back at home on Cedar St.
Chased from their homes by a storm of
World Trade Center debris, the tenants of
the closest apartment building to Ground
Zero were kept out for 15 months by a
. blizzard of bureaucratic bungling.
Their wait finally has ended.
In recent weeks, anxious and optimis-
‘tic tenants of 125 Cedar St. received per-
mission to return to the 12-story building
on the southern perimeter of the Trade
Center site. Five of the building's 23 fami-
lies have returned. All are expected to
move back within the next month.
“This has been our home for 22 years,”
said Ed Serrapede, 58. “It’s not like the
normal building in New York City. We
know everyone here.”
The building was one of the first in the
Financial District to be converted from of-
fices into apartments. The tenants, who
have rent-stabilized apartments, did the
work themselves. : ;
Yesterday, many of them gathered in a
dusty loft to th the person they credit
with getting them back home: Assembly
Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Last year, Silver (D-Manhattan) pulled
‘the building’s management, utility com-
panies and representatives of various
city, state and federal agencies into one
room to resolve the problems keeping the
building closed.
Electricity was restored, insurance
claims were completed and the building
was cleaned by the city Department of En-
vironmental Protection.
For his help, Silver was named an hon-
orary tenant, prompting him to joke, “As
lon as you keep the refrigerator stocked
I get the remote when I’m here, we'll
get along fine.” Greg Gittrich
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NYC-WTC_000155967Source: NYC Law Department, mirrored locally