Digital archive a worldwide tribute to 9/11
Anyone can contribute: Submissions will become part of memorial museum

NEW YORK - Canadians and others around the world with personal experiences of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York are being asked to contribute to a permanent digital archive launched yesterday for inclusion in the planned 9/11 Memorial Museum.

The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation says it aims through the project to create the most comprehensive historical record yet of the attacks, which claimed the lives of 24 Canadians among the 2,749 victims.

Invited to participate are not only the families of victims, survivors and rescue and cleanup crews, but anyone else who feels personally affected by the attacks.

"People from [all over the world] have stories of courage, kindness and tolerance to share," said Gretchen Dystra, foundation president and chief executive officer.

The foundation is launching the project after mounting protest from families of victims and others led to rejection of its plans to include two other museums alongside the memorial, which is slated to open in 2009.

One of the museums had a history of displaying what some interpreted as anti-American artworks. The other planned exhibitions that objectors said were either anti-American or simply deviated from the memorial's central focus, which is to remember the victims.

"This digital memorial appears to be a wonderful way to pay tribute to a loved one," said Hans Gerhardt, father of Toronto-born Ralph, who died in the collapse of the North Tower alongside his girlfriend, Linda Luzzicone, who worked on the same upper floor.

He said he and his wife, Helga, planned to contribute to the archive after they and Ralph's older brother, Stephan, objected to the earlier museum projects.

The family last heard from Ralph, 34, just after the first plane hit, when he called and said: "Something just happened at the World Trade Center. We either got hit by a bomb or plane. I am OK. We are OK. I love you, but I have to go now. We are evacuating. Call you later."

The first known Canadian submission came from Nadeem Hussein, a student in Waterloo, Ont., in 2001, who felt concerned, in part, because he is a Muslim.

"Many theories were surfacing stating that this vile act was committed by a Muslim," he writes. "True or not, I, as a Canadian Muslim, condemn all such acts."

New York's Columbia University has already collected thousands of oral histories, which will be fed into the archive.

Among them is one from survivor Margarita Mayor, who recounts what she experienced halfway up the North Tower after the plane hit.

"My chair, which had wheels on it, travelled from side to side --a feeling that I'll never forget," she writes. "I don't recall any sounds."

Firefighter Lieutenant Mickey Kross was on the third floor and managed to survive the collapse of the building.

"Hurricane winds overcame the stairwell and picked me up ..." he recalls. "I literally tried to squeeze myself into my helmet ... My prayer was that it just be quick."

Individual contributions can be made under the "Story Builder" link at the foundation's Web site, www.buildthememorial.org.

The foundation says submissions will be reviewed before being posted online, ahead of inclusion at the museum.

Differences continue, meanwhile, over other plans for the memorial, on which construction will begin in the spring. For example, a proposal to create a viewing room for the public to see a granite casket containing the remains of unidentified victims is opposed by some victims' families, who say providing such access reduces the space available for their separate viewing room.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/st...da2455eadf6&k=85760

9/11 Firefighter's Gear Stolen from Truck

WILMINGTON -- Jon Wright responded to the World Trade Center on September 11 and spent several weeks at Ground Zero site after the terrorist attacks. Jon lives in Wilmington now, and Sunday night a thief took one of his most prized possessions: his turn-out gear.

Step into Jon Wright's office and you'll see the life he lived for more than 30 years as a volunteer firefighter and medic in Freeport, New York. On the morning of September 11, Jon watched as terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. He immediately responded to the call and was on scene as the second tower came down.

"Right smack in the middle. I was neck deep in it, you couldn't get any closer to it than I was," Wright said.

Jon worked on the site for the next three weeks.

"The fire gear that I wore is in that picture right there. I'm the guy in the middle," Wright said.

That's the gear that a thief stole Sunday night from inside Jon's unlocked workvan in a store parking lot. The crook also took about $3,000 worth of tools. While the tools can be replaced, the gear cannot.

"That gear has my blood and my sweat in it and its got the blood and sweat of my brothers that were there," Wright said. "And unfortunately it's got a lot of the remains entrenched in the coat and the gear itself of the people that we found."

Jon thinks the person who stole the gear doesn't know how much it means to it's owner. Jon's afraid he may find it for sale on eBay or in a pawn shop.

"I would want them to just give the gear back and give it back. If they give it back that will be the end of it. If they don't give it back and you're caught with it I'll follow them to the ends of the earth. I want my gear back," Wright said.

The gear was stolen from Wright's van in the parking lot of Lowes Home Improvement off of New Centre Drive. If you know anything or saw anything Sunday night, give the Wilmington Police a call at 343.3600.

http://www.wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4340912

New York.- As Christians around the world celebrated St. Nicholas Day, the Greek Orthodox faithful headed for ground zero to pray for the St. Nicholas Church lost in the 2001 terrorist attack.

"This 36-foot tall church was just a stone's throw away from the trade center. People tried to buy air rights over it or to move it," said Peter Drakoulias, a member of the almost century-old congregation. "But the church stayed. It was always 'the little church that could.' "
The big question now is: Will the tiny house of worship that stood on 24-by-55 square feet of ground zero be part of the rebuilt World Trade Center site?

"We're working closely with St. Nicholas, the Port Authority and other partners to find an agreeable location for a rebuilt church on the World Trade Center site," John Gallagher, a spokesman for the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., said Tuesday.

A workshed stands where the church once served generations of Greek-American families.

Built in 1916, the church was traditionally a refuge for Greek sailors arriving in New York harbor who believed that St. Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, would keep their ships from sinking. Some of the world's rich and famous also have prayed there, from shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis to actor Telly Savalas. St. Nicholas — commonly known as Santa Claus — was born in the third century to a wealthy family in Patara, a village in what is now Turkey. He became a bishop and lavished his inheritance on the needy, especially children. The Orthodox community worldwide already has pledged millions of dollars to fund the reconstruction. Tuesday's outdoor service conducted was in remembrance of the more than 2,700 people who died on Sept. 11, 2001, in the twin towers of the World Trade Center

http://www.greeknewsonline.com/modules.php...le=article&sid=4307

Pataki proposes $80 million in NY state funds for WTC building

By AMY WESTFELDT

NEW YORK -- Gov. George Pataki on Tuesday proposed spending $80 million in state funds to put up a redesigned cultural building that once was to house two museums on the World Trade Center site.

The proposed donation to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation is the first time state government funds would be used to help rebuild any of the 16 acres of ground zero. It is earmarked for a building that still has no final design.
 
 But the $80 million is expected to pay for nearly the entire construction of the cultural building and visitors' center planned near the trade center memorial, Pataki spokeswoman Joanna Rose said. Construction would begin next year, and the building would be ready to open along with the memorial and a museum in 2009.

Pataki said the funding will "fulfill our solemn obligation to the families of the heroes, friends, neighbors and loved ones we lost and create a unified and unforgettable visitor experience to honor their memory."

The building, less than one-third the size of its initial design, will serve as a visitors' center offering Sept. 11-related exhibits, state officials said.

Pataki is including the $80 million next week in his proposed executive budget, which requires the state Legislature's approval.

The Norwegian architecture firm Snohetta first designed the cultural building eight months ago to be 250,000 square feet and house two museums, the Drawing Center and the International Freedom Center. The Drawing Center decided last summer to look for another home, and Pataki removed the freedom museum from the building in the fall after Sept. 11 families complained that the museums would dishonor the memory of the 2001 terrorist attacks' nearly 3,000 victims and take attention from the memorial.

A final design of the building will be released in the next few weeks, state officials said.

The state money would add to the $102 million the nonprofit foundation has raised privately and $300 million pledged by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. rebuilding agency to build the $490 million memorial and other cultural space at ground zero.

At a board meeting Tuesday, the foundation named three new members, including the CEO of the firm that lost the most victims in the attack on the World Trade Center. Howard Lutnick, of Cantor Fitzgerald, was elected along with Julie Menin, chair of Community Board 1 in lower Manhattan, and Savita Bhan Wakhlu, a business leader. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, saying he had too many other commitments, resigned from the board, leaving 39 members.

The Cantor Fitzgerald bond brokerage lost 658 of its 960 employees on Sept. 11, 2001, including Lutnick's brother.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/new...ny-region-apnewyork

Thinking Small: Memorialize Life At Ground Zero

By Roberta Brandes Gratz

Author Roberta Brandes Gratz argues that what’s needed is a reconstruction plan that inspires

Another anniversary of 9/11 has come and gone. Only this time it was nearly submerged in the wreckage of New Orleans. The overseers of a 300-year-old Southern city and the 16-acre Ground Zero site in Manhattan now share a common new purpose: Undertaking expensive, symbolic, and closely watched reconstructions that inspire America and respond to the challenges of this century in a new way.

Much of the responsibility for achieving these goals is falling to civic planners, a group of professionals suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. For better or worse it’s planners in New York, faced with reconstructing Ground Zero, who are taking the first crack at an incredibly important task.

If any city should know how to build to meet the needs of people, respond to an ever changing and complex economy, and inspire the world about what is possible, New York should. Every urban lesson about how to construct a durable, efficient, and functioning modern civilization is here, in plain view. The prescription for future development at Ground Zero should draw on the proven lessons of what has evolved over time in the lower Manhattan neighborhoods that border the site.

So what does that look like?

It’s The Street, Stupid
First, just as officials have planned, we ought to leave the sacred footprints of the Twin Towers as memorials honoring a horrific attack on a city and a nation that bent, but did not break. But equally appropriate is to rebuild the functional and economically productive street grid that once existed in lower Manhattan before it was wiped out in the 1960s to make way for the now-fallen towers.

Great streets evolve on interesting grids. Outside of the fenced in Ground Zero site, the rest of lower Manhattan still has narrow, winding streets alive with human activity. For Ground Zero to truly function as a place fit for all the human-scale activities of this century, it needs to reconnect to those lively streets. Ground Zero’s new streets need to be interesting enough to attract crowds, and they need to be safe and comforting too, with benches and intimate public spaces where people can mingle and meet.

Productive street life also makes all the other facets of urban design and construction flow. Ground Zero’s planners should see the need for a mixture of buildings of different heights, widths, and scale. No superblocks should emerge. Instead, different kinds of buildings need to be encouraged — tall and thin, short and fat, residential and commercial, institutional and educational, museums and theaters. They should be constructed on a timetable that is dictated by market demand, not a gargantuan plan. Too much built at one time without market demand acts as a giant sump, draining economic and social energy from elsewhere. That, too, occurred with the original World Trade Center.

Another idea that is crucial to Ground Zero’s ability to inspire and perform well is to include lots of new housing. Right now, residences are prohibited. This policy needs to be reversed. In fact there is more demand for housing at the Ground Zero site and in nearby neighborhoods than for office space. There is precedence for this idea. In neighboring landmark districts, Tribecca and SoHo, new modestly scaled contemporary buildings are being developed alongside historic buildings that bring a kind of urban coziness to both neighborhoods, among the trendiest and most desirable in New York.

No Mall! No Mall!
Moving on: The Ground Zero master plan calls for 1 million square feet of retail space in a giant mall that tries hard not to look like a mall. The developers are reported to be the same ones who put a mall in Time Warner’s new building uptown, named it the Shops at Columbus Circle, and insist it is not what it is: a mall. The same old national chains are there. The space is totally developer controlled. This is an important distinction. Most people don't understand that what makes a mall is that it is all owned, leased, and controlled by one owner. It’s not an authentic street that is truly public, has multiple property owners and individual tenants, whether those tenants are chains or locally-owned.

The proposed Ground Zero mall is a terrible idea and should be taken off the table. New York City isn’t a suburb and doesn’t want to be a suburb. It’s a city of individual shops and stores, chains and locally owned businesses side by side, located on busy streets. This pattern of retail development created the intensely vibrant streets of New York. It will for Ground Zero as well.

Lower Manhattan, which the Twin Towers once shaded, is a different place today than it was when the World Trade Center was built more than three decades ago. Authentic, market-driven urbanism is re-emerging gradually. Scores of early 20th century office towers have been converted into housing and new office space. Tribecca and the lower West Side waterfront boast the highest residential values in the city. Small-scale and high-rise buildings are scattered throughout.
 


Battery Park City, which borders the west side of Ground Zero, is almost fully developed after four decades. Above the street, and slipped into spaces all around Ground Zero, are converted lofts, live-work sites, small offices, and art-based businesses – the useful mix that defines a thriving urban neighborhood that has taken shape right alongside the fancy brokerages and bond sellers and banks that we all associate with the financial center internationally recognized as Wall Street.

All the critical ingredients of a successful redevelopment, in short, are in place at Ground Zero, including public transportation. More mass transit lines connect to each other on this site than almost any other place in New York City. Every subway line in the city has an on-site or nearby stop. Regional ferry and rail, and connections from Grand Central, Penn Station, and Atlantic Terminal tie the tri-state Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York region together like no other in the United States.

No Fortresses Please
All of this activity, which celebrates life and honors a tragic event, has eluded the Ground Zero planners. The current design for Ground Zero calls for buildings that are forbidding, intimidating, and harsh. The thick, fortress-like structures respond to the very acts of depravity that leveled the World Trade Center four years ago. For example, the newest design for the Freedom Tower, the centerpiece of the development, calls for a windowless base of steel and concrete rising 200 feet up from the street. That will surely enable the building to survive a freakish truck bomb attack. But you have to wonder how such a cold and forbidding shoulder turned to the city will attract enough renters or visitors.

The Freedom Tower has the potential to be the most significant new building of this century. It should not be a fort in an urban desert awaiting attack. It should be a welcoming center of human activity, a place of beauty and energy, an inspiring symbol of big-hearted New York and America. For that matter, the Freedom Tower and the other facets of the reconstructed Ground Zero should be a national porch, a place to gather and share and exchange and enjoy what it is to be alive. That would be a building that honors lives that were lost and truly celebrates American freedom.

Roberta Brandes Gratz, an international lecturer on urban development issues and a former reporter for the New York Post, is the author of "The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way," and "Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown." She lives in New York City and can be reached at LIVINGCITY@aol.com


http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=article&storyid=950

Sierra Club Launches New TV Series with Ground Zero
The program, "9/11 Forgotten Heroes," shows the experience of four Ground Zero workers who have suffered severe health effects from the World Trade Center pollution, and will be shown on Link TV (airing on DIRECTV channel 375 and Dish Network channel 9410).

This is the first nationally televised documentary to focus exclusively on the pollution from Ground Zero and the unmet health needs of the heroes who worked there. Emergency medical crews, firefighters and construction workers answered the call to Ground Zero, assured that the air was safe. Now, years later, they still suffer health problems and have to fight the government for health benefits. "9/11 Forgotten Heroes" follows four of these first responders – construction worker John Feal, ironworker Jonathan Sferazo, medic Major Mike McCormack and paramedic Marvin Bethea – as they travel from NYC to Washington, D.C., seeking justice, in the form of the Walsh Amendment, which would restore $125 million dollars in aid.

The funding finally was restored through the defense appropriation bill in December of 2005, but although this funding will help cover medical screening and treatment, it will only meet a fraction of the real need.

Also, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Congressman Jerrold Nadler have called on the U.S. General Accounting Office to investigate EPA's failure to carry out proper testing and cleanup of 9/11 pollution and its effects on New York families.


http://www.homelandresponse.org/500/Breaki.../12974/BreakingNews

Unsung Heroes Helping Heroes, INC. join with Suffolk County Legislator - William J. Lindsey in presenting a conference dedicated toward Identifying issues and developing solutions to problems still faced by the Unsung Heroes of the 9-11-01 attacks.
 
Reistration is FREE but individuals must be registered - CALL: The Long Island Occupational and Environmental Health Center at #631-642-9100 ext. 15
 
Conference Date - January 28th, 2006
 
Place of Conference- Suffolk Community College - Brentwood
                                   Campus
Conference begins - 8:30am - approx. 2pm
 
Further questions can be directed to:
Jonathan Sferazo #631-423-0277
Marvin Bethea #718-544-6356
John Feal #631-724-3320

MANHATTAN: FINANCING FOR GROUND ZERO CENTER New York State will contribute $80 million to build a visitors' center at ground zero, designed by the firm Snohetta, Gov. George E. Pataki said yesterday. Also yesterday, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation added new board members: Howard W. Lutnick, chairman and chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald; Julie Menin, chairwoman of Community Board 1; and Savita Bhan Wakhlu, managing director of Jagriti Communications. Michael D. Eisner, former chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, resigned from the board, citing unexpected commitments. DAVID W. DUNLAP (NYT)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/nyregion/11mbrfs.html

Pataki Wants Taxpayer Funding of Ground Zero Building
by Arun Venugopal

— Governor Pataki says he wants taxpayers to fund a cultural building at Ground Zero. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.

The governor has proposed spending $80 million for the Snohetta building, which was originally meant to house the Freedom Center and Drawing Center. But will now be used as a visitors center and 9-11 related exhibition space.

This is the first time state funds will be used at Ground Zero. However, officials with the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation insist their $500 million fundraising campaign will meet its goal, regardless of state support. So far, they have raised over a hundred million dollars from private sources. They also intend to start raising funds abroad, from nations and individuals who feel connected to the events of September 11.

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/55904

Port Authority K-9 Police Officer John Cortazzo is in desperate need
of A Negative and O Negative Blood and Blood Platelets. Officer.
Cortazzo was a 1st responder to the WTC attack and spent months
working at the recovery site searching for fallen comrades. Anyone
that can help please contact the Blood Bank at Hackensack University
Medical Center. (http://www.humed.com/)

Thanks for your help!

'World Trade Center Cough' a growing concern

There is more evidence that the number of people sick with 9/11 related illnesses is growing dramatically.

So much so - there's a name for it -- "the World Trade Center cough". And there is a waiting list for victims seeking medical help.

...

It is a warning sign of what's to come: more and more people seeking help for deteriorating lung problems and chronic coughs linked to their work at ground zero.

The numbers appear to be growing and the long term diagnosis is not good.

Dr. Robin Herbert: "There is a certain core group of people who have become very ill as result of their World Trade Center exposure and aren't getting any better."

That core group, according to the co-director of Mt. Sinai's World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program, is estimated to be in the hundreds and growing.

Dr. Herbert, Mt. Sinai Hospital: "We have a three to four month waiting period for new patients to come into our treatment program because the demand is so tremendous."

John Graham: "My lungs are burnt from the concrete dust."

John Graham is not getting any better.

John: "I have a severe breathing problem ... the tests are clear I had no breathing problem before 9/11."

As a carpenter, he helped in the clean-up at ground zero for months breathing in the toxic mix of fumes he says destroyed his lungs and made it impossible for him to work.

His fear now is a battery of powerful drugs will eventually fail to keep him alive.

John: "Every breath I take hurts that much more it's exhausting."

Marie Pellegrino: "His health went downhill starting with that cough, and that cough started at ground zero."

Chris Pellegrino worked for months as a cable installer at ground zero, months of breathing in poisonous smoke and dust. He developed "the World Trade Center cough," his lungs disintegrated, he lost his job. When he died at age 42, he looked nearly as old as his mother.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=...tigators&id=3802673

Discord Over 9/11 Memorial's Symbolism

By DAVID W. DUNLAP

THE heart of the World Trade Center memorial has been transplanted.

Construction documents released last week by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation made it clear that thousands of unidentified remains of 9/11 victims would not be entombed in the monolith planned as the memorial's bedrock-level centerpiece.

Two years ago - almost to the day - when the memorial design by Michael Arad and Peter Walker was unveiled, the public was told otherwise. "At bedrock of the north tower's footprint," said Vartan Gregorian, on behalf of the jury that chose the design, "loved ones will be able to mourn privately, in a chamber with a large stone vessel containing unidentified remains of victims that will rest at the base of the void."

In the current plan, body parts are to be kept in a climate-controlled room about 35 feet east of the vessel, under the supervision of the city's chief medical examiner. They will be easily removable from there for further examination as DNA identification techniques improve. An adjoining vestibule, open only to victims' relatives, will offer a view into the room where containers of body parts are stored.

The vessel, 30 feet square and 9 feet high in the center of the main chamber, will be symbolic.

"I just don't see the point," said Diane Horning, the president of W.T.C. Families for Proper Burial, speaking for herself. "Our loved ones aren't symbolically dead. But everything that's been given to us is symbolic."

Edie Lutnick, the executive director of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, asked: "What is the purpose? The ashen remains are in Fresh Kills in a garbage dump. Now, on the site itself, it's going to be an empty box." She said she first learned about the vessel's new role at a meeting three months ago on other issues.

Dr. Gregorian, the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a member of the memorial foundation board, said he learned about it from a Jan. 3 article in The New York Times.Without commenting on the latest revision, he urged a "major public presentation" of how the original design has changed in the last two years as the result of budgeting, engineering and security concerns. There ought to be regular updates, Dr. Gregorian said, "in order to avert surprises, rumors or speculation."

Yesterday, Mr. Arad said the role of the vessel and surrounding rooms had evolved, particularly after he visited the refrigerated trailers where the medical examiner currently stores the body parts in the hope that they can eventually be matched with individuals.

"We're not burying the remains," Mr. Arad said. "They have to be kept for future identification. We're essentially keeping them in medically controlled conditions."

He also said he learned from the medical examiner that "many family members wanted to see where the remains were, how they were being stored."

Asked, then, what was the purpose of the monolith itself, Mr. Arad said, "It provides a touchstone, a center, something that people can gather around."

"I can imagine people leaving flowers or candles at the base of this," he added. "People may tape pictures to it. We don't know how they will interact."

Anne Papageorge, a senior vice president of the development corporation, said, "There are many memorials or vessels that don't contain actual remains that still serve a symbolic focal purpose."

But Ms. Lutnick said she did not understand why the vessel could not have drawers on one side, if that were necessary for retrieval, and solid stone on the other sides, with the entire tomb enclosed in a see-through material if it must be climate-controlled. "It seems to me they're not trying very hard," she said.

Prof. James E. Young of the University of Massachusetts, an expert on memorials who served on the memorial jury, said, "Perhaps a small vessel with unidentified remains could be entombed in the large 'symbolic' vessel, coming to represent the rest of the remains entombed behind the wall nearby."

(Though it has been suggested that some material from the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island could be deposited in the vessel, Ms. Horning said such a token amount "would preclude proper burial of all the remains.")

SPEAKING of the monolith-as-tomb, Professor Young said in an e-mail message: "I always cautioned against making this feature too central to the role of the memorial, only because the signficance of remains varies widely among different religious traditions.

"I know that in some Christian communities, a vessel with remains (an urn with ashes, for example) occupies a pretty prominent place in memorializing the dead. In contrast, orthodox Jewish tradition proscribes certain priestly sects from treading in cemeteries at all, where human remains are present.

"The way forward, therefore, will probably be to find a balance or compromise between the literal and symbolic roles of the mortuary vessel."

He did not say it would be easy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/nyregion/12blocks.html

YEAR-ROUND FOUNTAINS AT WTC
 
January 12, 2006 -- Massive fountains marking the perimeter of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center Memorial will flow year-round, The Post has learned.
The memorial's fundraising board, with Gov. Pataki's encouragement, decided this week to keep the fountains running through the winter, despite earlier concerns about added operating costs in cold weather.

"The foundation believes it's important that visitors be able to experience the waterfalls at any time of year," said spokeswoman Lynn Rasic.

A decision to include heaters to keep the water flowing was made during the foundation's board meeting Tuesday, she said.

Designing the fountains to work in winter will add about $300,000 to the cost of the project. The total cost for the memorial and its museum is about $500 million.

 Tom Topousis

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60237.htm

DON'T GIVE ME 'LIBERTY'

By V.A. MUSETTO

LIBERTY STREET: ALIVE AT GROUND ZERO
9/11 revisited.
Running time: 118 minutes. Not rated (disturbing images). At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, Avenue A and Third Street.

FILE Peter Josyph's 9/11 doc "Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero" under Too Much of a Good Thing.

The filmmaker chronicles the terrorist attack from that terrible day to the present, focusing on residents of 114 Liberty St., which used to sit in the shadow of the World Trade Center.

It was left standing in the assault, but its upscale residents had to stay elsewhere for a year and a half because of heavy damage and contamination.

Rescue workers, journalists and other eyewitnesses get their say, too.

There are tender moments, like an interview with Ike, a shoeshine man near Ground Zero who survived the Holocaust and the terrorist attack.

And there are beautifully composed video images of the city.

But Josyph allows people to blab on far too long, then throws everything they say at viewers, expecting them to put the words into some kind of context.

A bit of editing — like chopping an hour off the running time — would be a big help.

http://www.nypost.com/movies/61454.htm