Word: heliport
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...Federal Hall National Memorial, where George Washington was inaugurated as the first U.S. President, and the Eldridge Street Synagogue in lower Manhattan--a site singled out, an official says, because information on the Gujrat discs reveals that al-Qaeda may try to target the Jewish community. One map shows heliport sites in Manhattan...
Graduate student Christopher K. Akana was one of the few who was able to volunteer. Immediately after the attack Tuesday morning, Akana contacted a New York City doctor he knew and the West 30th St. heliport at which he used to fly for the latest information on how he could help and where triage clinics were being set up. I know a lot of people that work in or around the World Trade Center. Going to help was my way of staying sane and not freaking...
...wrote the check, Vesco further shamed him by auctioning the draft to the crowd for $200. He bought houses in Costa Rica and Switzerland, a yacht and a Boeing 707, which he outfitted with an office, bedrooms and a discotheque. To the annoyance of his neighbors, he built a heliport on his home property in suburban New Jersey. He liked to try to get away with things. He once bought his wife a $65,000 ring and then tried to get his company to pay him a bonus to cover its cost. A would-be partner reputedly told Vesco...
...sense of mid-'60s retro time warp seems almost deliberate. The omnipresent piped-in music is a dated, Muzaky mishmash. Outside the vast white Pavilion of the Future sits the pan-European Ariane 4 rocket. There is a heliport and, of course, a monorail...
...guide me," says Billy Barnes, a Manhattan talent agent. "It has changed my life-style, particularly now. People aren't smoking and drinking anymore; they aren't having sex. In this atmosphere, I find great solace from my garden." Barnes has landscaped an apartment terrace that looked like a heliport when he moved in. Stands of birches, pines and apple trees rustle in the winds on the 14th-floor roof. He smiles at his lofty thoughts. "It brings my mind out of the gutter," he adds. "If everybody could have a little plot of God's green earth...