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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Washington post, sundaY, October 2001 Commuter Link PropossEs Some New York City officials are proposing new transportation links from the suburbs to downtown. Among the proposals: B Extension of PATH train from New Jersey into Brooklyn H Commuter link from Grand Central Station to downtown ■ Second Avenue subway line from the Bronx to downtown ■ Commuter line from Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal to downtown -

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Downtown 0.5 mile Businesses businesses More than 15,'553 262,697 employe employees 1 Imsinessss were located within 1 It 1 mile mile of the World 15,413 businesses Trade Center. : 376,057 employee’s

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real estate agents are seeing sub­ will keep the federal government’s urban flight. The city now faces a eyes focused on the reconstruction. defidl of its own. The region’s political leaders City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi have not yet tipped their hands calculates that the attacks have al­ about their visions for the city's fu­ ready cost New York City about $45 ture. Giuliani and Gov. George E. billion and that the eventual eco­ Pataki share a Republican label but nomic losses could exceed $100 bil­ no fraternal bond. Their surrogates lion. have spent more time wrestling “Businesses are going to leave,” over control of post-disaster chari­ Hevesi said, “The mission' for us is, ties and relocation money than talk­ if they’re going to leave, that it’s ing about grand development plans. temporary—that it's so attractive Ultimately, though, they will have here, they have to comeback." to decide how to rebuild—and rede­ A whiff of panic hangs over dis­ fine—the megalopolis. cussions about New York’s future. “The greatest challenge for any The money is arriving NOW! The government is to spend a lot of time to move is NOW! Speed will al­ money well,” said Mitchell Moss, low city officials to cut red tape. director of New York Univtasity’s Speed will encourage a congenitally Urban Research Center. “We’re go­ contentious civic establishment to ing to find out if New York is up to work in rare concert.'And speed it." ■ -X'

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