Well I read two really powerful stories on how a small diner near the twin towers suffered due to the crash. Harry Poulakakos the owner of Harry's Cafe & Steak. This is his response to the struggle of his business “"It was very difficult even to get down here. No cars were allowed down here for a couple of months," he says. Business was hurting everywhere. We opened Harry's one week after and the funny thing was we had a lot of support.”
The other story I read was about Greg Carafello the owner of Cartridge World's. New York City and New Jersey stores, just barely made it out of the south tower before it too was hit by a plane. Greg was just running out of the tower with one of his employees, thankfully none of his other employees were in the building at the time. Greg had his back turned as the second plane hit. This is what he has to say "At first we thought it was a gas explosion, but then we heard it was a plane. My back was to the building when the second one was hit. The noise level was unbearable. At that point you start sprinting. You know you're under attack. This is not a mistake. So we ran down to South Street Seaport," he recalls. "We did a lot of trade show graphics. There was nobody traveling. We went right into a recession. People had no funds," he says. Greg was so shocked that he didn’t think about the business for a week.
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