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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

daily news, MONDAY OCTOBER 1, 2001

i" IS ' L.^ « battle for survival TdURISMINDUStRY :*♦ IS Ct- <13 I Broadway recovery bid w SEii IV 1^’ more than just a show Oil By WILUAM SHBtMAN Old BRIAN KATES QMLt NE^S STAFF Wunws I tie Empire State Building opened its fabled 86th-floor observation deck S' . ■ Saturday, welcoming hundreds of tourists ■I’j and showing the world thut New York can­ not be cowed. The day before, scores of aciors and 3 I actre.sses massed in Times Square to make a rousing recording of "New York, New York" as part of the Let's Go On With the Show campaign to holster sagging Broadway ticket sates. Indeed, the show is going on. But the /y bnpact of terror on tourism has been ruinous. Broadway, with its dependence ki < ..—J on out-of-towners, provides a reliable barometer of the World Trade Center attack's economic impact on the city's 125 billion tourism industry. In the first week after the disaster, 143,641 people anended Broadway shows, down from 181,402 last year. Five plays SZT^ZTlZl have been forced to close and producers NatlOT t^and Elaine Shttdl 1^ , reported weekly losses of $5 million. Kitted Broadway's song for survtvaL । That's just for starters. wonder. Broadway and off-Broadway theaters Cantone was to play Sam Beck, a char- are expected to give walking papers Io acier who hijacks a plane and flies it into 7,800 actors, musicians and stage crew the White House “I know how IO pick members by the end of October, according ’em," Cantone deadpanned. He quickly to a study commissioned by the New York added: “I’m just glad to be alive." L-V‘-; «( City Labor Coundl. The loss to the econo- ■TMe just thought thia was not the right

I' my was put at $873 million. moment to do a musical on presidential Among those caught in the economic assassinations," said Roundabout artistic 1' tidal wave was actor Mario Cantone. He director Todd Haimes. had turned down a role in The Producers," The not-for-profit Rount^bout also pro- BroadwaYs most popular show, IO appear duces "Cabaret," currently starring in the Roundabout Theatre's upcoming $4 Brooke Shields. In 3ft years, the show nullion production of “Assassins." a never had a losing week- In the first week Stephen Sondheim musical. after the attack, it lost $150,000, The show, with 20 actora, 13 nrusicituis "This is very scary," said Haimes. and 40 stagehands, was canceled. And no “Broadway is very fragile. Most shows ifih operate on small margins Even if sales are -------------------------------------------------------- down only 1084 to 15%, that can make the t .-‘VL . !• K 1 ' T difference."

fnew jobless & firms in loan search Insaurants, at 240 Central Park South. "Generally, we do 300 dinners a night, years. The store suffered no physical dtim- f --------- none of hi®;55 WTC employees Last Saturday, we did 40," he said, ^t'll ■ age. hut the loan will not come close to m the first week after (he dis^ter. hurt, ail are out of a job, although get better, though. There are signs it's cSvering his business losses, and he has inune^t^ RJtoy said he will provide them with picking up." limited business-interruprion insurance. ly Jter the attack. Box oh^ were closed p health insurance for six months May doesn'l need a big loan to stay Verizon has promised to restore his * until they find another job. / .j Y in business, like so many olhers phone service by Oct, 11. and he predict- I? Ulfh rhe desrmction of the 4 affected by the tragedy cd the return ol pedestrian traffic. n^galas were f iBstauranrs, May estimated a ft Marvin Rafeld, tSmerof 14 AMI St. "If I can get through the nexi 60 days. f?’ V';’. bioss of S4 miJllon, not all of it R' Jeweleis. picked up a $124,000 check 1'11 be here another 20 years," he said I L-iovered by insurance. I* Friday from the Small Business Danyl McCray, owner of the House of “^^tropo lan Op'rd. which in the I r ‘We are dealing with the R Admimstnition. The interest on the Nubian, a dothing store at 35 W. Eighth f id torn ^'n F poaendous Joes of life in this : loan is 4% a year. St., al.so got an SBA loan Friday His was m tickets, sold $700,(»0 this ye^, I dry. That's more difficult to "11’11 tide us over," he .laid, for $50,500, but he said he has lost more .®“‘ days, with Mayor E With,’ he said. “1 can noting that he has lost three than $l(X),000 in sales, and he doesn't beginning to I snvive the loss of two A* weeks of sales even while know how he will make up the difference, retura at theater box offices. St waomr.ls," / ».A^gW. continuing to pay his four . Asked whether he had business-inter- 'We seem to have started an upward 6 San Domeniio, •2/^ employed. ruption insurance. McCray said, "Before swing, stfd IJitriaa Aniietta-HiibMr of Sal IVIarciante lost I He has owned his shop, Sept. 11,1 didn't know what it was. I did- the League of Amencan Theaters and his bortendihg job. «I across from the New York n't even know it existed. Producers, but whether or not that con- ^tnostJy empty. ISOj ? Stock Exchange, for 20 “Now I do." tinues remains to beseem"

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