In the News: Skip the 9/11 Anniversary?

September 1, 2011 Events, People, Real Estate

••• The New York Jets “got a little extra motivation today with a field trip to the World Trade Center site, where they saluted surprised workers toiling on the hallowed construction project. […] The Jets open the season against the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in a prime-time, nationally televised game.” Gee, maybe they can sell special 10th-anniversary T-shirts. (New York Post)

By Ben Fractenberg (courtesy DNAinfo)

••• Community Board 1 got a tour of the 9/11 memorial, too. (DNAinfo)

••• “An informal survey of residents of the neighborhoods abutting the World Trade Center site indicates that most are not looking forward to the tenth anniversary ceremonies of the attack on the Twin Towers. In fact, they will do everything they can to be elsewhere.” I give that a hearty+1. (Downtown Express)

••• “Mercury poisoning sufferer Jeremy Piven is buying a […] a 6,000-square-foot Hudson Street penthouse that once belonged to former Mets slugger Mike Piazza. The duplex […] was listed by Prudential Douglas Elliman for $6.2 million. Piven’s new digs—bizarrely referred to in a listing as ‘muscular & voluminous!!’—has three baths and 1,800 square feet of outdoor space.” It’s 161 Hudson, FYI, the building where Moomah is. (New York Post)

••• “The sad and tattered shell of 372 Broadway, a circa-1852 Italianate loft rising 5 floors and stretching through to Cortland Alley, is finally getting some TLC. […] 372 Broadway is within the protected Tribeca East Historic District, but that hasn’t done much to protect its legacy. […] The concerned crew of archi-freaks over at Wired New York have been keeping tabs, worried that the building’s marble face will end up part and parcel in landfill. Now crews are crawling around inside and work is being done ‘to reinforce structure of building.'” (Curbed)

••• “A Chicago investment firm closed on one of the city’s biggest residential deals this year—a roughly $220 million transaction to purchase the luxury Tribeca rental apartment building at 88 Leonard St. from Africa Israel, sources told The Post. The deal, done in two phases, will be Waterton Associates’ first big buy in Manhattan, and it follows a $110 million deal they did in Brooklyn.”

 
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3 Comments

  1. Hudson River
    September 1, 2011 • 6:36 pm

    After the first 2 years I realized I could not stay here on 9/11, and since then we have always gone away. The helicopters, the motorcycles, the random street and sidewalk closings, the photo ops for the politicians who have created a 14-year reconstruction project that should have taken 5 years, the idea that we need “events” so that we don’t “forget,” all of the people who claim to be “showing respect” but are drumming up business for their product/idea/organization—it’s just too overwhelming. And this year there’s someone hawking memorial wine! What are people thinking? And what do overpaid professional sports teams have to do with it? When did selling tacky souvenirs and making as much noise as possible become a way to “show respect?” it’s like New Year’s Eve. I hope it eventually all calms down, but I doubt it ever will.

  2. Carol Tanenbaum
    September 5, 2011 • 8:57 am

    Inappropriate commercialization. Again. Nothing, and no one is exempt any more. Agree w/Hudson River. Anywhere else.

    And Rome burns. . . .

  3. Cee Cee B
    September 12, 2011 • 11:58 am

    Also Agree… Its become a media, I wasnt there but I want to be there now, souvenir seeking, Red Bus Hot spot, circus..Shame on the Jets.
    Thoughts from A Responder…