Posted on 10/31/2006 1:12:06 PM PST by presidio9
It's the only piece of the World Trade Center still standing where it was before terrorists destroyed the twin towers.
But the "survivors' staircase," a path to safety for countless workers on September 11th, 2001, will be moved -- to build one of five planned office towers on the site.
Preservationists, including a group that named the staircase one of America's most endangered places this year, are lobbying to keep the only standing remnant of the destroyed trade center complex where it is.
A final home for the The 21-foot-high, 350-thousand-pound staircase, which once connected an elevated plaza to a street north of the site, still isn't decided.
Historians had hoped it would be returned to the same spot where survivors of the terrorist attacks found it in a debris-filled plaza, following the stairs from a bridge to street level just before the second tower collapsed.
The Woolworth is probably one of my favorite downtown buildings. Great lobby. Check out the images of the architect and owner by the elevators!
Also like the Chrysler Building and Grand Central.
Hate the IBM, Sony (AT&T) and Lipstick buildings.
p.s.
Not crazy about Citicorp either, but it gets a pass from me because idiots designed it and they didn't know any better.
I hadn't ever read this:
The most heart-wrenching discovery was that a silver object melted onto the cross' left side was the remains of a firefighter's jacket who died in the blast. Firefighters say the fire-resistant jacket turned silver and took on the look and consistency of metal when it encountered extreme heat and fire. Now, it is wrapped around the left arm of the cross.
Amazing.
"Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends..." - John 15:13
Time Warner replaced the Coliseum. In truth, it's not a bad looking building. But being an old guy, it'll take me a decade to get used to it. BTW -- Coliseum Books is out of business. They couldn't sustain themselves in their new location, 42 by the library.
They're about to do an expansion of Javitz, adding sq ft.
Sad to hear Coliseum Books closed. I used to like that place a lot.
I really miss Tony Randall, too.
the Citicorp thing is one of the great stories of modern architecture. It was a student who discovered the flaw and brought it to the attention of his prof. who brought it to the attention of the developers. They fixed the flaw after the building was built and occupied by, in part, installing a giant concrete counter-weight that slides back and forth on rollers near the top of the building.
Yeah, that was it. I didn't recall it was discovered after the building started getting tenants. I should track that docu down again - amazing stuff, huh?
The Strand has gotten a face lift as well. The beloved crappy bathroom on the first floor is gone, replaced by modern bathrooms on the second floor with actual sinks. An elevator has been installed (sic!!!!) and the floors re-done.
Wow, 'progress' hits the Strand! ;-)
- amazing stuff, huh?
I once dated a girl who wouldn't meet me at my office because it was at 666 Fifth. The developers (Tishman?) didn't do themselves any favors with those giant red numerals at the top.
I remember browsing the history section at the strand and these horrible, horrible noises and odor were coming from the bathroom. Very literally, it was driving people out of the aisle in disgust. Then a few moments later the door pops open and its a Pulitzer Prize winning author!
Sounds about right! Hahaha! ;-)
I would have approached him to shake his hand, but...
Repudiated. Winners don't let losers have any say in who won and who lost. Winners make losers lose, and after they lose, then the winners make them agree that they never won.
So the right answer is, do you have what it takes to make New York look like Osama Bin Laden and his shower-buddies never existed?
Practicality be damned here. We're a rich country, and we can afford to exercise eminent domain, take the landlord out of the deal, pay him off, and do what we want with it.
We don't lose to semiliterate goat-rapists.
Amazing how an adult could consider the 911 attacks a win for the good old USA.
We will win the war, but clearly we lost the Battle of 911.
Because he's murdering scum, and you don't give **** to people like that. No props for subhuman murdering scum. Can I be clearer?
Texas A&M University has an old tradition, kind of peculiar but it goes to the point here. They say that when they lose a football or basketball game, they were "outpointed" -- they never say of themselves that they were "beaten" or that they "lost". Get it?
A little bit Edwardian, but when your civilization is being challenged to the core, and everything you value, then you bring all your stuff, especially your spiked shoes and your great-granddaddy's 15" Bowie knife.
You're perfectly clear - you can't, or won't, distinguish between a win and a loss.
That Texas A&M thing sounds very liberal to me. Outpointed. Cute. How does getting 'outpointed' count in the standings?
Oh yea, its a loss. Get it?
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