NYC-WTC_000230557

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

r NEWSDAY; SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 2001

Taking Care of Businesses Wall Street firms work weekend to get operations ready By Patricia Hurtado "I can see the exchange ia going to he ready and we’ll STA/F WHITER be here. . . But I don't think well want clients to como The electricity was on but the phones end Internet down here for a meeting," Carberia said, gesturing out­ were down at Fredericks Michael & Co.’e offices at 2 side, where armed National Guardsmen and police of- Wall St. yesterday. A fine layer of dust coated the ficem Rtond guard. Con Ed crews with backhoes tore up desks and the air was thick with the smells of acrid Wall Street while other crews spliced power lines. smoke and Lysol. In each of the investment bank’s offic- “It's doable," said Michael May, senior vice presi­ ea there w&s evidence of people having made a hasty es­ dent of George Comfort & Sona, managing agent for cape Tuesday. the 22-atory building, Since Tuesday, May and hia Oftnrge Cnrberis, the firm's managing director, sur­ building staff have worked around thedoeJc, /jrst eval­ veyed the view outside hig office yesterday, calculating uating the building and then getting the building in the likelihood the flnn and Wall Street would be able shape. to open tomorrow. Armed with a dust mask, Carberis, On his building’s roof, May said hia cleaners had □f Northport, and colleagues traveled into lower Man­ found meil from one of tbe doomed jetliners, all post­ hattan yesterday tn retrieve files, forward telephones marked from Boston en route to Los Angeles, and evac­ ■ and evaluate the situation. uation instructions from, one of the plane’s passenger “They aay Wall Street ia going to be operating," said seata. Carberis, gazing out Che window onto the New York "My people wanted to come back here to get back to • Stock Exchange, where a cleaning crew steam-cleaned work " May said. ‘TJo one said 'No, it's too dangerous.’ its marble walls. They're dedicated to seeing this happen."

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