The NYPD thinks will assign over 600 cops to guard the so called “Freedom Tower,” but unless they’ll be flying around in F-16s, this is supposed to prevent another terrorist attack how exactly?
Reconstruction of the World Trade Center site has been scaled back to stumps and now further postponed. According to a secret government report, the Freedom Tower may not see completion until 2018, 17 years after the 9/11 attacks. The central tower and transit hub are predicted to open four years later than was announced last year, while the September 11th memorial may not be completed until 2013, two years later than planned. Though the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center claims the latest dates are incorrect, many, including Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, are infuriated that “Ground Zero has been left to look like an unfinished parking lot.” |NYDN|
The latest plan for the seriously delayed and shrinking World Trade Center calls for dumping several skyscrapers. The Port Authority is proposing replacing Tower 2 and 3, at 200 and 175 Greenwich Street respectively, with a pair of “stumps,” four or five story buildings for retail use. They also hope to abandon all plans for Tower 5 at 130 Liberty Street, the site of the toxic Deutsche Bank building, leaving just two towers and half the office space originally envisioned. And just because the replacement designs are smaller doesn’t mean they’ll go up any faster. The so-called “stumps” could take a couple years to redesign, pushing completion of the site’s transportation hub past 2014. |NYDN|
Now that the Port Authority smartly decided not to call it the Freedom Tower, the City Room asked its readers to help create a logo for 1 WTC with varying results, most of them unreasonable. This one from Mark Sanders is especially eerie: “The number only is visible because of the omission of its twin. While a single new building sits on the site, the shadow of twin towers provides solemn context.” |City Room|
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