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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

NEWS DAV, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25, 2001

Bad Memories i Brought Back By Ray Sanchez STAFF WRITER For jittery New Yorkers, yester- dayis scaffolding collapse in the “Everybody was wondering what was going on,” said a makeup artist named Loraine, who lives across the street and declined to give her

With a Boom Gramercy Park district brought thoughts of the worst. “It sounded like a big bomb,” said John Youn, 48, who manages a deli on the same block of the collapse. last name. “There was a little bit of panic but, still, people were just standing around waiting for the building to fall. “Honestly,” she added, “I wasn’t “All the dust and smoke came in­ that scared. I think people in New side my store.” York are kind of amazing.” Police and fire rescue crews As she was leaving her building, called up from ' ■ Ground Zero raced up­ town to hunt for the ’ 16 people missing in the courtyard behind 215 Park Ave. S. The streets were clogged with rescue vehicles as onlookers gawked from behind police lines. Mayor Rudolph Fire Giuliani, Commissioner 'Wt Thomas Von Essen and TV news crews descended on Park Av­ enue South. lot I “I thought of Sept. i nth,” Youn said. “I thought it wa.q anoth­ er attack.” Dr. Harry Avini, a cardiologist, said he was sitting in his of­ fice on the 19th floor Bmij of 215 Park Ave. S. I when he heard a thun- i derous roar about [ 4:16 p.m. . “It was a huge noise like something was being ripped off the side of the building,” Avini said. ‘The whole building shook.” Avini said his back was toward the win­ dow. KI T thought 1 heard ■ something pass by Newsdaj PhoW / Jire O« the window,” he said. A man injured in the scaffold collapse receives assis­ T know there was a tance yesterday on Park Avenue South. scaffold in the back of the building. Right away, I knew the scaffold fell,” Loraine .said, a police officer asked Avini said he and and others in to examine her makeup case. the 20-story building immediately “He saw that I’m not an armed headed for the stairways. terrorist, and he let me go,” she “Smoke and dust were coming in said. “Then. I walked down the the hallways,” he said. “People were street and there was Mayor rushing to get down. But it was Giuliani. I thought, ‘Oh my God, calm. No panic.” this poor guy. Doesn’t he get any From the street, Avini said, he sleep?’ ” could see that the building’s brick Staff writer Bryan Virasami con- facade had crumbled to the ground, tribuied to this story. .

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