World Trade Center staircase may be moved temporarily to barge off Governors Island until permanent spot can be found.
Posted on 08/01/2007 8:46:57 AM PDT by Stoat
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World Trade Center staircase may be moved temporarily to barge off Governors Island until permanent spot can be found.
Put it out to sea.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is floating a plan to place the last remaining piece of the twin towers on a barge and moor it off the shore of Governors Island, sources told the Daily News.
In recent weeks, the sources say, the LMDC, which oversees reconstruction at the site, discussed the plan with the city and the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp.
Errol Cockfield, a spokesman for the LMDC's oversight agency, the Empire State Development Corp., declined to comment.
The 175-ton staircase is the only remaining above-ground remnant of the Trade Center. Some historical preservationists have pressed the state to keep it intact as a reminder of the twin towers.
The staircase sits in the middle of multiple construction projects, including reconstruction of the so-called "bathtub" that keeps water from flooding the site.
"Everyone acknowledges that it has to be moved in order for the bathtub construction to continue," said Michael Connolly, a member of Community Board 1. "The question is, where do you put it until a decision is made about its permanent future?"
Last spring the state proposed moving the ragged staircase to Battery Park City, but residents put up a fuss.
The latest plan under consideration is to float the staircase on a barge off Governors Island temporarily until a permanent spot can be found.
Then there are those who would like to see the staircase simply go away.
"If the barge sank, it might make a nice natural reef," said Bill Love, member of Community Board 1 who opposes putting the staircase in Battery Park City, where he lives.
So stupid, blow this piece of crap out. there is nothing memorable or redeeming about it. There will be a ton of artifacts in the memorial museum.
Another compassionate liberal heard from....
Checking around the FEC records, looks like this guy is a big fan of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton based on his contributions. Figures. 3,000 Americans dead, nothing to see here much less remember, move along. Forgetaboutit.
If only NYC’s monument-fixated, self-indulgent navel-gazing would generate enduring resolve to retaliate against those responsible for the attack... if only.
Had today’s postmodern generation been at the helm for the attack on Pearl Harbor, we’d have responded with four years of yellow ribbons, surrender, mass amnesia, and pious back-patting at having saved millions of lives through a policy of dialogue, accomodation, and selflessness.
America the pitiful.
Where are all the ghosts?
*FEC records, looks like this guy is a big fan of John Kerry*
Good find DR. Another selfish liberal.
They want to listen to foreigners who want to kill them. To be nice and understand them. Americans who have different opinions, well they need to be silenced, then killed.
I understand how people want some big tangible piece to memorialize, but I just don’t see how this hunk of concrete is it. There just isn’t a “USS Arizona” sort of relic that is an evocative object on that scale. The memorial will have some sections of steel and other artifacts, I’m sure. The steel cross... that sort of thing. But not every piece needs to be preserved.
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