NYC-WTC_000230679

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

NEW VOEK POST. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 6. 2001

Holocaust museum reopens By MARIA ALVAREZ minded everyone. and ERIC LENKOWrZ Meanwhile, motorists got some wel­ come news. A museuni honoring victims of an un­ City officials shortened by one hour speakable atrocity reopened yesterday in the Monday-through-Friday ban on Man- the shadow of the Twin Towers ruins. hattan-bound single-occupant cars using The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Bat- bridges and tunnels south of 63rd Street. tery Park City — just six blocks from the . starting Monday, the restriction will be World Trade Center — opened yester- effect from 6 a.m, to 11 a.m. day for the first time since the terror at- mound zero, where workers contin- tacks. ued their grim search, there was word of Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, the a multimiJlion-doIlar treasure-trove in : Holocaust-memorial museum’s chair­ the wreckage. man, said staffers “are determined ... to The Bank of Nova Scotia said about bring our message of memory, hope ^d $200 million of its gold and silver lay renewal to our community, our nation, buried in a vault below the nibble of and our world." 4 World Trade Center. Those attending the event included “All of CTound zero is extremely se­ Gov. Pataki, Sen, Hillary Rodham Clinton cure,” bank spokeswoman Diane Flana- ' and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone. gan said. "It is our choice to open this museum," . “We have every reason to believe [the , I Clinton said. “It is our choice in choosing gold and silver] is safe and intact. And hope over despair. ” we have every reason to believe it is At a separate press conference, Clinton fully recoverable." ' urged visitors to enjoy the restaurants Besides the legions of cops who keep ■ and other businesses of lower Manhat­ onlookers away from the site, the bank ‘ tan. "All of downtown is open," she re- hired its own security personnel. 1 n . .

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