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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2002
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Preliminary plans for WTC area, museum, memorial unveiled
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The agency overseeing the rebuilding of the World Trade Center area offered a plan yesterday to turn it into a pedestrian-friendly hub of offices and homes, with a "museum of freedom and remembrance" and a memorial chosen by an international competition.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg also filled four vacancies on the 16-member panel but outraged some groups by not appointing relatives of any of the trade center victims.
"I was completely shocked. Unfortunately I think we all just assumed that the right thing would have been done," said Jennie Farrell, chairwoman of Give Your Voice, which she said represents about 1,000 families of victims. Her brother, James Cartier, died in the attack.
The redevelopment plan is just a rough blueprint and will go through months if not years of
discussions and revisions.
The early stages of the memorial planning process should begin by the summer, the agency's lead planner said.
"These are things that have to come early on because they will determine everything else," said Alexander Garvin, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.'s vice president for planning, design and development.
The plan envisions Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the New York Stock Exchange and the World Trade Center memorial as key elements of a regional "Freedom Park" that could be marketed and operated as a single destination. It would feature a "museum of freedom and remembrance."
To make lower Manhattan a more pedestrian-friendly area, streets could be depressed or elevated.
The corporation also moved yesterday to expand its program
of incentives for New Yorkers to move and stay downtown.
Residents of Chinatown, Little Italy and parts of the Lower East Side could receive $1,000 one-time subsidies under the $277 million plan approved at the corporation's meeting.
Also under the expanded incentives, households with children in the blocks immediately surrounding the trade center site could get a separate, $1,500 bonus to encourage families to live in lower Manhattan.
Under previously announced incentives, all people living around the site could get as much as $12,000 over two years in rent or mortgage assistance.
The incentive plan is subject to approval by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The city-state corporation is charged with overseeing downtown redevelopment and the distribution of about $2 billion in federal aid.
Homeless man charged in charity scam
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Twenty-five people were charged yesterday with using a variety of schemes to steal nearly $150,000 from charities helping victims of the World Trade Center attack.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, 76 people have been charged with similar scams.
Those charged included Woodrow Flemming, a 48-year-old homeless man who allegedly hired 13 other homeless people to help him steal more than $100,000 from the Red Cross and another charity called Safe Horizon. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said.
The other 11 defendants included three city employees and a Safe Horizon employee. They are accused of stealing relief money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Red Cross and Safe Horizon.
Flemming allegedly applied for benefits last October, telling the charities he had lost his vending table near the trade center because of the attacks, Morgenthau said.
A fake W-2 tax form and letter from a lawyer, full of bad grammar and misspelled words, verified that he sold CDs, videos, sunglasses and other items at that site, Morgenthau said. He said Safe Horizon gave Flemming $5,766, and the Red Cross gave him $5,970.
Flemming's alleged recruits applied for benefits as workers at his vending table, Morgenthau said. They allegedly collected checks for $3,000 to $6,645, and Flemming kicked back a small
part — $100 to $1,100 — to the homeless men and women.
Sale Horizon employee Marcel Hartsfield, 31, is accused of stealing nine blank checks from her employer and giving them to friends to cash.
Two of the city employees were secretaries at the Housing Authority. Morgenthau said they falsely claimed they lost their $25,000-a-year jobs after the attacks. The third city employee, an inspector with the Department of Buildings, claimed the attacks drove him out of his Battery Park City home, Morgenthau said.
The defendants were charged variously with grand larceny, attempted grand larceny, forgery, possession of a forged instrument or offering a false instrument for filing.
The KU School of Fine Arts and Kansas Union present
Brown Bag
Classics
Make your lunch a classic. Join the Music & Dance Department for free, noon-time performances. Just bring your lunch because drinks are on the Kansas Union.
January 23 Pirates Review
January 30 Vince Gnojek, Saxophone
February 6 KU Horn Ensemble
February 13 Instrumental Collegium Music
February 27 KU Harmonie
March 6 Keith Wright, Flute
March 27 Pamela Hinchman Voice Studio
March 13 Amir Khosrowpour, Piano
April 24 KU Tuba, Euphonium Consort
April 10 Paul Stevens, Horn
April 17 KU Saxophone Quartets
April 3 Melanie Hadley, Piano
May 8 BA Woodwind Quintet
April 3 Melanie Hadley, Piano
Wednesdays, 12:30 pm to 1 pm, Alderson Auditorium, Level 4, Kansas Union
School of Fine Arts
Piano courtesy of Vaccaro's Piano and Organ of Overland Park
University of Kansas
The Lawrence Human Relations/Human Resources Department is pleased to present:
A Seminar for Tenants and Prospective Tenants
Learn from the experts:
-- What your landlord's responsibilities are to you.
-- What to do if you suspect discrimination in housing is occuring.
-- What your responsibilities as tenants are.
Where: Community Building 115 West 11th St. Lawrence, Kansas
When: Saturday, April 20, 2002
-- How to resolve conflicts with your landlord.
Time: 8:30 a.m. -- 3:00 p.m.
Call 832-3310 for more information This seminar, including lunch is free of charge.
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