NYC-WTC_000230590

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

WASHINGTON POST, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2001

I I r- I 1 I Life at the Makeshift Office 1 Lower Manhattan Workers Face I Tight Quarters, New Commutes By Justin Gii-Ws to a huge generator in the TToihiagtori Post Staff IFrilEr street. One group of employees is NEW YORK stuffed into what used to be a nee upon a time. Mal- conference room, using impro­ I Bcolm Draper and his vised vrorkslstitms jammed to­ I i colleagues worked in a gether on what used to be a pretty ordinary office fancy table. The room is half in Lower Manhattan. That was the size of the apace it replaced before the terrorist attack of and “a little bit tough to get Sept. 11 drove his company out used to," said Eric Todor, a of three buildings, shut off the Multex manager. Other em­ power and phones, and left 60- ployees peer through a glass foot heaps of smoldering rub- darkly, their windows still blr outside the Park Place caked with the choking dust building housing his firm’s that billowed through the main computer, center. streets after the World Trade Multex.com Inc. workers Center collapsed. have since been able to return These are crazy times in the to their headquarters at 100 financial capital of the world. William St., a few blocks from Even as the noises and some vvhere the World Trade Center of the normal rhythms of life towers once stood. But now return to the streets of Lower. J they saunter beneath two tons Manhattan, small companies' of electrical cables—the fat such as Multex and giants like kind normally strung on out- Merrill Lynch & Co. continue c|por poles—that stretch from to cope with the aftermath of a backup computer room, the terrorist attack; limited through crudely cut holes in phone service, spotty power. the wall, across the ceiling, out a window and down six floors As the cleanup operation at the World Trade Center site continues, Sfee WORKERS, £J J, Col. J companies boused there or nearby have reopened elsewhere.

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