Posted on 03/09/2008 2:20:35 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
NEW YORK (AP) — Workers have begun moving a staircase that served as an escape route for countless survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center.
The stairway survived Sept. 11 and remains the only aboveground remnant of the trade center complex. Its 37 stairs once connected the outdoor plaza outside the twin towers to the street below.
An American flag was placed on the staircase Sunday before it was hoisted onto a flatbed truck by a crane.
After years of debate over whether and how to preserve the structure, it's moving about 200 feet west on the site, to be stored until it can be installed at the Sept. 11 memorial.
Preservationists and survivors of the 2001 terrorist attack began campaigning years ago to leave the staircase where it was. But it sat in the middle of the footprint of one of five skyscrapers being built to replace the destroyed towers.
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I can remember waiting on those steps for my girlfriend to get out of work at nearby Dean Witter. That was in late summer 1992. The World Trade Center exists only in our memories.
Wow.
I remember standing on the roof (back in the days they were still giving tours) and marveling that some daredevil had tightrope-walked from one tower to the other.
When I return to NYC I scan the horizon for the towers long gone. I remember that it took 2 months to recover our friends remains. I look up at a point in space high above the skyline and remember standing on the observation deck of the tower. Still can’t believ it or the shortsightedness of our nation. 7 1/2 years later and no Freedom Tower. Shame on Bloomberg, NYC and the Port Authority.
April 7, 1974: Tightrope walker Philippe Petit successfully traverses a rope from one tower to the other.
So this is how buddy felt after they sent him to the vet? Obviously amongst the political class in NY they have one of those lock boxes Hillary has.....
There's a number of movies that have the WTC in the background. It makes one think back to that day whenever you see those towers in those movies.
The first Men In Black has them in the background too.
My heart skips a beat and my stomach clenches every time I see them - it hurts all over again to see them.
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My family and I got to go up to the top of the World Trade Center in June 2001. It was a beautiful day, and I have a lot of pictures from the top. I even saved my ticket stubs that we purchased to go up on top. I have them and several photos in a photo montage in my office. I am so glad I got to go up in them before 9-11.
I’m glad for you. Those towers were really something. I was in NYC in September 2001 for the U.S. Open tennis tourney. I sent a postcard of the World Trade Towers home to my father in Pennsy on 9/8. It was delivered on 9/12.
Wow, my hands started sweating just READING that.
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