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| | Companies Flee Manhattan's Financial District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Yet in the financial district, turn-of-the-century temples of commerce still dominate some of the crooked alleys, and there is little room among the landmark buildings for modern office towers. |
 | | Of course, the office vacancy rate in Manhattan has doubled in the last year, and as much as 1.86 million square meters of space is sitting empty. |
 | | Carl Weisbrod, director of the Alliance for Downtown New York, the business improvement district for the 14,000 companies in the financial district, said he was confident that the area would be rebuilt. |
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