because he couldn't demonstrate that he suffered harm "greater than that of the community in general." A parking garage continues to operate at the same address, its entrance again in front of the roadblock. Day-to-day management, if not ownership, seems to have passed to New York garage chain Icon Parking Systems. Efforts to reach Vassallo were unsuccessful, and no one who we spoke to at the garage and working on the block recalled the controversy over the closure.

Private security guards employed by the New York Stock exchange staff the area's checkpoints to this day.

Around the World Trade Center site, construction to flesh out the street-scape replacing the one we lost is in its final stages. In the redesign process that followed the 2001 attacks, neighborhood activists saw anopportunity to reintegrate parts of the neighborhood that had been cut off starting in 1966 by the super-blocks around what would become the World Trade Center. City planners shared this vision and drew up a street plan reconnecting some of downtown's old narrow lanes. By 2013, though, neighbors realized that the NYPD had other ideas. A dozen local residents and business owners sued that year to try to get the department to scale back its security plan, which called for ringing the blocks around the new trade center complex with barriers and guard booths, and blocking the streets to all but authorized vehicles—even though the new buildings on the site are built to be bomb-proof.



The NYPD security plan for the redeveloped area around the World Trade Center drew