But Mr. Hernandez had stopped working, collecting disability benefits for what the police said was a back injury from construction work.
"You got a car shooting out fumes right here," said Bill Bowen, 39, while taking a cigarette break from construction work.
A few guys in hard hats, on their lunch break from construction work on 4 World Trade Center, walked by and checked out the signs.
George Koutroumbis, who built the Lincoln Park building's porch, was fined $25,000 and has been barred from construction work in the city.
Despite all of this, Adar Steel's owner, Daniel Adar, has "no disciplinary history" with the Buildings Department, a spokesman said, and is therefore not barred from construction work.
Some 820,000 jobs are connected to the bay, from construction work on sewage treatment plants and stormwater projects, to recreation, wildlife tourism, and the fishing and boating industries.
"Given the protests from numerous hotels complaining about the noise from construction work, we thought it essential to create quiet for our visitors – something that is vital for what we offer hotel quests during the tourist season," Ms Avellino said.
Now, another 20,000 people that Boeing expects to lay off by the middle of 2002 have to compete with unemployed workers not just from the high-tech industry but from construction work and even the retail sector.
He grew up in Wood Ridge, N.J., attended St . Marys High School in Rutherford, and did a variety of jobs from construction work to loading trucks as a Teamster until he became a Franciscan friar at 22.
