NYC-WTC_000230613

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2001

Returning refugees say apts. robbed By DEREK ROSE and OWEN MORITZ items like purses and bags probably left DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS ' in haste by their owners. Tenants streamed back into a Battery Bruce McDonald, another Gateway ten- Park City apartrnent complex yesterday ant, said he came back to find two camer- to find btowri-out windows, doors as and two lenses missing, smashed open by firefighters and jewelry The Gateway tenants’ reports came the and other articles missing. same day police said two people had Police said they wiU investigate any re- been charged with theft in the shopping ports of theft, but added that they had re- concourse beneath the twin towers, ceived only one. A retired corrections officer and anoth- The apartments most severely dam- er man were arrested two days after the aged by the collapse of the World Trade Sept. 11 attack for allegedly stealing Center are in the six-building Gateway $3,700 worth of watches from a Tour- Plaza at 395 South End Ave. neau Store, police spokesman Tom An- About 900 tenants who call 600 Gate- tenen said. way home found every window tn the More buildings reopening today first 25 stories on the east side blown out. another development yesterday, Inside they found about 150 doors bro- Giuliain announced that eight ken open by firefighters seeking to rouse apanmfint buildings in southern Battery tenants in the first hours after the explo- p^^k City would bt reopened today. sions a block away across West St Ten.<mts will be allowed into additional Tenants have been barred since the t^er- buildings next week, Giuliani said. Ac­ tor a tack and have been aUowed back m by foot only, is from Battery Place. oi^o.r^neye। belonging. . Buildings opening at 8 a.m. today are: Liberty Terrace at 3S0 Rector Place, Bat- ® teiy Pointe at 300 Rector Place, Liberty secure. Court at 200 Rector Place, South Cove My door was wide open' Plaza at 50 Batteiy Place, River Watch at Last night a returning importer of medi- 70 Battery Place, Liberty View at 99 Bat- cal imaging products said he found jewel- tery Place, Cove Club at 2 South End Ave. . ry boxes open in his eighth-floor unit, and the Regatta at 21 South End Ave. Three watches worth $17,000 were miss- The schedule of other openings is: ing, along with several of his wife's rings Monday — the Soundings at 280 Rec- and bracelets, he said. tor Place and Hudson View East at 250 i “I'm 49 and I bought my wife some South End Ave.; Tuesday — River Rose at ! very nice stuff,” said the tenant, Marcal 333 Rector Place.; Wednesday — Liberty Souto. ‘Anybody could have done it be- House at 377 Rector Place. cause my door was wide open. The remaining buildings — Hudson Mark Frazee, a construction worker, Towers, Hudson View West, Parc Place complained that a dining room table was and the rest of Gateway Plaza — remain missing from his apartment. closed, but the Battery Park City Authori- “They stole my dining room table,” he ty said it is working with the Office of said, noting that an expensive TV set was Emergency Management to reopen I untouched. “It's kind of a funny thing, them. 1 ’ but it’s still a loss.” The authority said tenants should con- Accountant Bob Mintz said he stayed tact their building management for up- ’ in bed during the evacuation Tuesday dates. The BPCA can be reached at (646) and saw homeless people the next day 756-31061 Its emergency Web site is at walking around with baby carriages and www.bpc.mobilel23.com.

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