News Clip: Ten years after 9/11, downtown transformed

08/30/2011 in

Newsday

In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, lower Manhattan hasn’t just come back. It’s transformed. In 2000, 24,000 people lived south of Chambers Street, according to a report released earlier this month by the Downtown Alliance, a business improvement district. Today the population has more than doubled to 56,000.

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