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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

THE NEW York post. Tuesday. September i^. 2001

TO BE BACK MontW/SeptOTi^.n

s SILVERSTEIN Has 99-year lease.

__ Magnate pledges 4 to rebuild I towers .11 By LOIS WEISS, KlltSTEN DANIS and BRAD HUNTER k. Real-estaie kingpin Larry Silverstein tearlElly

Isa vowed yesterday to re­ build ihe World Trade Center and its glorious t’-r lT” Twin Towers — even though he only leases the JLi,___ Y4 destroyed property. _ Silverstein repeated his back to the RAILS; Commuters walk through the Dowling Green subway station on their way to try to resume a normal work lite. promise throughout ihe day ai two different func­

1 saved her and she saved me’ tions, including an emer­ gency meeting of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commeree. “We fully enpect, hope and pray to rebuild Num- Bacon said he asked and the -World : By LAURA nAUANO CoraeU bX Center for Center and, J- we J He doesn't know her name, and she was help finding the injured 527hS'2SSI5?5iSliSl-'2S burned so terribly, be couldn’t tell if she woLn. He Believes Ihe is SStSSLS^H^’JS was black or white. the dty^fl^cial elite

51ftp AU Manhattan Supreme Court Officer Ty • Bacon knows Is he dragged a screaraing her body. jf the city does young wo man in a chair stretcher through ! Cornell said it had no not rebuild, “we'd be giv- dense smoke as the World Trade Center’s <ine who fits that descrip- Ing an incredible victory south tower began falling. lion. to those who want to de- Only later did he learn that the three “I got about 15 seconds a*™y oar way of life.” court officers who stayed behind to save away from the missing of- , 5’’!?“? those still injured in the crumbling shop­ fleers Somebody •OH^dtnJSp railed I crouXd Ctailer on Dec. ». 1980. ping mall of S World Trade Center arc •WE CANT LEAVE’! The last words of heroic Court Officers down and aU hell broke “ **“ among the heroic missing He’d have been with them. Bacon knows, if not. for his uorched guardian angel. •1 Mv«d her, and. the. ttUJSBaa'SBSsas.v^ "I'ni proud of them be Me and the woman gut Ix*s#bts.’« ihorlty agreed on a It was so dark with was on the job only SU blown 25 feet along the 99-year lease deal that in­ * saved me — and now Pm yond words." agreed their opaque smoke that when months. (loot. She was screaming, eluded the Twin Towers desperate to find her,” commander, Maj. Regi- Sgt. Richard Rosenfeld Thompson. 51 — a father 'Don't leave me.' I told and the two nine-story of- Bacon. said yesterday of a edd Mebane, recalling shined his flashlight, "All 1 of two adult sons who has her, 'Don’t worry, sweet- Ace buildings at 4 and 5 woman who managed to . how he and nine officers saw were eyes." been a court officer since heart, I promise you're W^dT^e Ceniet' say ordy that she was 32. piled' 'into a jury 'bus and With ihem was lurgcas, 1974, had ran lo the scene eolng lo gel out of here.” ™ Retd and worked cm the 78th rushed 10 blocks south to- 26, a newlywed ex-Army from his teaching job al When he last saw her. floor. ward the twLc infernos. combat medic and volun- the Court Officers Acad- she was being cared for by p, ,Uvlspvt “But these guys," Bacon Outside crumbl’ling leer fireman from Mead- emy on Williams Street. EMS inside the Chase fo prov’de emeraen^^ said of the three missing 5WTC, a woman who.0^ officers:— Capr. William, ficer Edwin Kennedy was owmere Park. LI. “Their last words," re- Sank ai Fulton Street and 15,5^5 ^f up to a year at *Harry” Thompson, leading lo safety was Another was Wallace, called Rosenfeld, “were, Broadway. “cost." Thomas "Tomniy" Jur- struck by a falling steel 34, a Mineola, LI., EMT ‘We can’t leave, there’s T’m here today," he About 25 million square gens, and Mitchel Wallace beam. He was left holding who calls his fiancfe, No- people screaming in said, ’lieeause our paths feet of office space was — “are the real heroes.'' only her arm. reen, “Cinderella," and here.’" crossed." damaged or destroyed.

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