WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER SUGRA: The City
to Its Fullest
William
Christopher Sugra was born and raised in Pennsylvania and
started working in computers there. But when his company
moved him to New York last year, he wanted to explore the
whole city. He and his girlfriend, Suzanne Dinnie, went
to the opera and to museums. They went kayaking and rode
their bikes.
"We were interested in doing everything we could," Ms.
Dinnie said. "He never took the city for granted. We
always joked that we were tourists every day, and we did
so many of the typical New York tourist things."
Every couple of months when Bill's parents came to
visit, he would give them a tour of a different part of
the city. Once he took them to see his office at Cantor
Fitzgerald's eSpeed subsidiary at the World Trade Center,
where he was responsible for the e-mail system. They had
to get special passes to be allowed upstairs. His office
had no view, but he loved working there. Afterward, they
went upstairs to Windows on the World.
The last time his parents visited was in August, to
celebrate Bill's birthday (he turned 30) and Suzanne's
(she turned 27). They had drinks at the Boathouse in
Central Park, went to dinner at the Atlantic Grill, and
finished up at the Blue Elephant on the upper east side,
where the owner treated them to a round of drinks because
theirs were so slow in coming. Bill's mother, El Sugra,
said they had hoped to visit Chinatown together on a
trip, but never made it.
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