Everyone is pitching in to help get the Tiles for America memorial back in shape for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this weekend. To keep the tiles from being blown off and destroyed by Hurricane Irene, a group of women who call themselves the Village Angels, along with volunteers, took them all down two weekends ago. Clockwise from above: Village Angel Dusty Berke, right, talking with Joanna Shows, who was carrying a plant someone had donated to the memorial; nanny Meredith Kennedy and Dashel Neville put up a tile; Jim Power, the “Mosaic Man,” brought over his 9/11 planter from Astor Place, and it now has a palm tree in it; tiles laid out on a police barricade in the rain, ready to be rehung by community members or passersby on Wednesday.
