[21twelve]

How in the world did the city screw that up? Some concrete, refrigeration pipes and a three foot wall! Okay, I know it was more complex than that - but its not like they were trying to build a bridge or a building.

[poconopundit]

Good point. This wasn’t rocket science. Only stupid or correct people considered it impossible.

Or — and we must consider this — did the NYC pols want to keep the Wollman project failure going as a never-ending payoff to corrupt insiders.

More likely, the anger of sacred cows was aroused that an outsider would dare display their incompetence to the public at large.