Is that the new term for the destruction of the World Trade Center?
I say this in a T-Mobile Starbucks a few blocks from the WTC. I took a red-eye from Phoenix to New York last night, on my way to Finland, of all places. In the middle of the short night on the plane, I awoke to realize that I had to see Ground Zero during my few hours in New York.
My whole family stayed at the Millenium Hilton next to the WTC, Labor Day weekend of 2000, almost exactly one year before 9/11. Of course we went up to the top of the towers.
I did some consulting for a dot-com company on Wall Street back in 2000. I usually stayed uptown, so every day I'd take the subway to the WTC, and then walk past Trinity Church -- dodging the rats -- over to Wall Street. This is my first time back since then.
The Millenium Hilton looks as good as new, and most things around Ground Zero have been restored, but the blank spot -- with a viewing area -- is huge. Oddly, almost my first thought was that the viewing area was where the Krispy Kreme franchise used to be. I never heard mention of Krispy Kreme in all the news about the WTC, but it's definitely not there.