Sale of New York skyline photo yields dollars for Red Cross fund

Those who would like a permanent reminder of what New York City’s once very familiar skyline looked like prior to Sept. 11 can get one — in photograph form — and help the American Red Cross relief fund at the same time at a Pennington photo shop

By: John Tredrea
   Those who would like a permanent reminder of what New York City’s once very familiar skyline looked like prior to Sept. 11 can get one — in photograph form — and help the American Red Cross relief fund at the same time at a Pennington photo shop.
   In many ways it is a quintessential New York City photograph. It was taken from Ellis Island, where so many immigrants began their American experience.
   In the right foreground is a tugboat. Just visible in the distance behind it is a sailboat. There are two other boats in the picture — they look like the sort of passenger craft the Circle Line uses to take people around Manhattan Island.
   Beyond the boats, under soft, blue-gray skies, is a wide swath of the skyline of Lower Manhattan. Since the picture was taken on July 28, the vista is, of course, dominated by the Twin Towers of the now-gone World Trade Center.
   "It was taken on July 28 by Ed Libernoche, a neighbor of mine who lives on South Main Street in Pennington," said Barry Havens, whose family owns Photo Haven of Pennington on Route 31 just north of Commerce Bank.
   Copies of the Mr. Libernoche’s picture have been offered for sale as a fund-raiser at Photo Haven. "We’ve collected $200 so far, with no advertising," Mr. Havens said Monday afternoon.
   "Everything we get from the sale of the picture will go to the Red Cross."
   Unframed copies of the picture cost $8 for an 8-by-12-inch color print, and $20 for a 12-by-18. Framing can be supplied by Photo Haven at the customer’s request.