NYC-WTC_000230597

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

THE NEW York post, mondaY September 17,2001

Sky-high Rescuers’ hope fading art studio fears for member By TODD VENEZIA

m-: 51 The World Trade Cen­ ter was the titanic symbol of America’s capitalist might, but it was also home to a group of artists ■ inspired by its massive scale and spectacular lo- ' cation. ' , • - - Now, one of the 15 mem- • bers of an an studio pro-

' /< i- 'fli- . ^am housed on the north tower's 91sc floor , is amone the missins — and hh cQlleaeues in the crea­ tive world are devastated. "This has just been so hard to deal with.r'said Liz Thompson, the execu­ tive director of the Lower , Manhattan Cultural Coun- - //w Sa ' cif which oversaw the art­ ^.4.’ a ists’ space. . ‘A lot of the-^ artists wanted to work up there to be inspired by the view,” she said. "But we never saw this conuna" Thompson, who bad just ■'-'7^-' -a.* arrived at street level from the 107th floor when GRIM TASK; Two workers suspended from a crane direct the heartbreaking search ot the trade center yesterday. Reuters Tuesday's attack oe- ■ curred, said Michael Rich­

Another frustrating ards, a Jamaican muted- media artist, is missing. He had probably spent alJ night working in his studio UOO feet in the air

day with no survivors was havi^ her aching feet wrapped be­ — and had probably de­ cided to sleep over, she told The Post. Richards, who had been working in the center for about thr^e months, has By Larry Calona, Ikimulisa SocleweJi-Mason, Dovid Seifmon and Kate Shoeby fore starting their second full day OD the not been __ ____________ ___ His seen since. trail of possible survivors, insisted, ' father traveled from Ja- The gnieling search for World Trade ’*There is hope. maica yesterday to wait Center survivors continued yesterday — “Very realistically, there ace lots of for word of hia fate. with no success. pockets of air and lots of boles. We don't The Other artists were The smoldering rubble, tons of con­ know who bad their lunch or breakfast found safe after a nuny pf crete piled precariously in places and with them- So there's still hope dll (he frantic phone calls, no­ sheer weariness of rescue workers toil­ last bit of dust Is picked up." be sail gram director Moukhtai ing for nearly a week prompted officials Queens firePi^ter Ed Kester said he's Kocache even searched at 10 haul in more heavy machinery — focused oa-ficaing personal items in (he the disaster site for. hia much to the fruslracion cf rescue work­ ' rubble — since that might indicate a per­ colleagues after, the .col; iWw ers hoping to get a ci:ack at digging oui son is still alive nearby. some possible survivors. “It gives a hint — like eyeglasses, pock­ Yesterday, no intact bodies were re­ etbooks, Palm Pilots," Kester said. "If we lapse. ■ As he looked Tor siinri- vors, a nun and a woman covered, only dozens of shattered body Had stuft. we brieg dogs io to sniff yelled racial insults at the parts. around." Lebanese-American. More than 5,000 people are sttl miss­ Unfanuaately, luck has not been with - "They told - reeTi You ing, including more th^n 300 firefi^ters him so far. should go back to your and 23 cops. None of the police officers “Il was a letdown. The dogs didn't pick country. you f---lng have been found so far. up on anyone," he said. Arabs. - ------- We should bomb --------------------- • "It was very somber," said volunteer Aside from survivors, the feds said the s--- cut of you,' " he Jim Kasey, 35, of the mood as he passed they are focused on another problem: told an ABC News re- buckets of debris along a brigade. fioaing the 500 guns that were in WTC poner he met in the cha- Makeshift, UASH-like units lined some offices and ate stiU unaccounted foi. otic aftermath Tuesday. streets collecting body parts, which were They continued the search to no avail The space for the artists to be delivered to a morgue at Bellevue ______________________ _____ yesterday. was, donated by the Pon HospitaL Some people were also concerned Authority four years ago, Families of the missing were urged to - about the living walking around above 11 Earned fame just a help authorities collect DNA samples to the mess. month ago, when The ideatdy their loved ones by brining In Several doctors from NYU Downtown New Y01V Times rah a such things as toothbrushes or combs Ho^ital were walking along the streets stDry about a^b^ooy allc- they may have jsed before Tuesday's fated events. wear masks to protect them from the ^oup of performance ut- Only 115 victims had been idcotificd thick dust. ISIS who removed a win- since yesterday, and the process of iden­ "I know people aren't interested in , dew. tifying the rest could take momhs. ofn- their own heaJtfi right now, bur chances ci^s warned. One hundred and- eighty are,' many of the people down there aren't alive now, and we want to keep NO LETUP; Proudly [jearing the Hag, a shift of res- cue workers is trucked In to the disaster site. AP Stm.bOT^lvSoD inVpoii. Michiel Glass, whose Rottweiler, Nala, ssjasgft.**

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