Manhattan, NY – The destruction wrought on lower Manhattan by the Sept. 11 attacks hasn’t stopped it from becoming one of the city’s fastest-growing neighborhoods.
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Census figures released last week show that the number of people living on the blocks around the World Trade Center has swelled by nearly 23,000 people since 2000.
About 45,750 people now live there, double the number counted during the last census.
Anyone walking through the area can see the change. The area around Wall Street was once a ghost town in the evenings after financial district workers left for the day. Now, it is busy around the clock.
Community leaders say the area’s revival as a residential area began before Sept. 11 and hasn’t been slowed by either the attacks or the recent recession.
Yet still there are only one or two kosher places to eat and no kosher shops at all.