••• “Six months after the federal government added cancer to the list of sicknesses covered by the $4.3 billion World Trade Center fund, a New York City health department study has found no clear link between cancer and the dust, debris and fumes released by the burning wreckage of the twin towers. The study was by far the largest to date. It examined 55,700 people, including rescue and recovery workers who were present at the World Trade Center site, on barges or at the Staten Island landfill where debris was taken in the nine months after Sept. 11, 2001, as well as residents of Lower Manhattan, students, workers and passers-by exposed on the day of the terrorist attacks. Over all, there was no increase in the cancer rate of those studied compared with the rate of the general population, researchers concluded after looking at 23 cancers from 2003 to 2008.” —New York Times

••• “27 N. Moore Street loft at (the other) Ice House cracks $1,800/ft.” —Manhattan Loft Guy

••• “Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said the service would return between Hoboken and 33rd Street in Manhattan beginning on Wednesday at 5 a.m. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said direct service between Hoboken and the World Trade Center was still ‘several weeks away,’ citing ongoing work to replace damaged and destroyed signal equipment.” —New York Times

••• Seaport bar Fresh Salt is slated to reopen this week after closing because of Hurricane Sandy.” —DNAinfo

••• The West Thames Bridge might open by mid-2015, says the Broadsheet, which included a word that was new to me: stramp, or a combination of strumpet and tramp staircase and ramp. I asked SHoP Architects for a rendering in the Broadsheet and they sent over a new one. Click to enlarge—it’s a dazzler!