The ECC was destroyed on 9/11. Julie-Annie then blamed a former aide for the decision.
The aide, Jerome M. Hauer, the former director of emergency management, fired back, giving Lloyd Grove of New York magazine a February 1996 memo that shows he argued for a Brooklyn location. He says the mayor overruled him.
Here is what Mr. Giuliani said on Fox News: "Jerry Hauer recommended that as the prime site and the site that would make the most sense. He recommended that site as the site that would be the best site. It was largely on his recommendation that that site was selected."
Mr. Hauer’s memo to First Deputy Mayor Peter J. Powers recommended the MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn: “The building is secure and not as visible a target as buildings in Lower Manhattan.” The World Trade Center had been bombed three years earlier.
Mr. Hauer told Lloyd Grove in an interview: "Rudy’s getting a lot of heat for the decision. He’s trying to run on his homeland-security and national-security background, and if you start peeling back the skin on the errors he made when he was mayor, you take away a lot of the basis for his candidacy… I feel sad that he would betray somebody that had served him loyally in the past, and I’m angry, too. But when you get to know Rudy, you know that this is the kind of thing he does. That’s just his personality."
As I've posted before - even Mayor Daley (King-Chi), the biggest RAT of them all, learned from the 1st WTC bombing.
In 1994 he built a state of the art joint PD FD communication center One Mile West of the Chicago Loop. About as safe as you can get and still be 'close to the action' (main targets).
And that's a fact, as I was one of the subcontractors on the project.