Towering symbol: The fog rolls out across downtown Manhattan, captured from the 80th floor of One World Trade Center
Posted on 01/01/2012 1:35:07 PM PST by NYer
When it is completed, it will be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of incredible poignancy for New York City.
One World Trade Center reached its 90th floor this week - with just 14 more floors to go until the top. The structure can now be seen from all five boroughs of the city.
Stunning pictures showed how the area has been reborn since the 9/11 attacks more than a decade ago where almost 3,000 people lost their lives in the worst ever terrorist attack on American soil.
Towering symbol: The fog rolls out across downtown Manhattan, captured from the 80th floor of One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center is on track to be completed by 2013 with construction workers approximately finishing a floor a week in downtown Manhattan.
Electrical contractors at the tower agreed to give it a festive feel and wrapped the exterior lamps they use with coloured cellophane in time for Christmas.
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They had a couple of slices and beers and proceeded to evade the Police in NJ and NY that were looking for him.
It was for a short while a piece of Jersey City bandit behavior.
I’d love to know what this guy’s salary is.
Amazing pics——thanks for the ping.
Great post.
Tons of symbolism, from my understanding. Looking at the new tower from one angle reveals an outline of one of the old towers. Another angle shows an outline of the Washington Monument. And of course the tower is 1776 feet tall.
Maybe. But one is kinda like one finger, sticking up, right back at you Al-Qaeda...
Glad you posted this.
you are most welcome... it still does something to me every time i see it
Maybe. But one is kinda like one finger, sticking up, right back at you Al-Qaeda...
Of course, economic feasibility must be considered as well.
Maybe. But one is kinda like one finger, sticking up, right back at you Al-Qaeda...
Of course, economic feasibility must be considered as well.
Fabulous photo .. thank for posting! Many of the men hired to work on high rise construction in Manhattan, are Native Americans.
When New York City’s Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, pieces of Mohawk history fell, too. And now, as the rebuilding of lower Manhattan continues, those pieces are being put back, in steel and in stone. This is a shared history too few outside Native communities know.
Great thread. Thank you, I viewed the photos with my seat belt on. :-)
404, dead link...
Its an abomination, really? Political correctness from a conservative. If you want to name it something else, build your own skyscraper.
Thanks for that, Sam. I grew up near there and have been to the city many times. It’s tough to explain it to others.
Here’s a little story: I visited there some years ago on business. The first night I went to a very busy and upscale brewpub. The bartender was a very attractive young lady, and a very nice person. I chatted briefly with her about my business trip. I returned the next night, or perhaps two nights later, and the bartender greeted me BY NAME, and asked how my presentation went, remembering fully the nature of my business. Now here’s a pretty girl that serves thousands of customers per night, but remembered me (some old married guy) personally a day or two later. NYC has a lot of cool people like that.
You can almost see the curve of the earth!
Ditto..wonderful photography!
Here is the account from Wikipedia:
On Wednesday, 7 August 1974, shortly after 7:15 a.m., Petit stepped off the South Tower and onto his 3/4" 6×19 IWRC (independent wire rope core[6]) steel cable. He walked the wire for 45 minutes, making eight crossings between the towers, a quarter mile above the sidewalks of Manhattan. In addition to walking, he sat on the wire, gave knee salutes and, while lying on the wire, spoke with a gull circling above his head.
As soon as Petit was observed by witnesses on the ground, the Port Authority Police Department dispatched officers to take him into custody. One of the officers, Sgt. Charles Daniels, later reported his experience:
I observed the tightrope 'dancer'—because you couldn't call him a 'walker'—approximately halfway between the two towers. And upon seeing us he started to smile and laugh and he started going into a dancing routine on the high wire....And when he got to the building we asked him to get off the high wire but instead he turned around and ran back out into the middle....He was bouncing up and down. His feet were actually leaving the wire and then he would resettle back on the wire again....Unbelievable really....Everybody was spellbound in the watching of it.
Petit was warned by his friend on the South Tower that a police helicopter would come to pick him off the wire unless he got off. Rain had begun to fall, and Petit decided he had taken enough risks, so he decided to give himself up to the police waiting for him on the South Tower. He was arrested once he stepped off the wire. Provoked by his taunting behaviour while on the wire, police handcuffed him behind his back and roughly pushed him down a flight of stairs. This he later described as the most dangerous part of the stunt.
The whole complex should have been excavated and restored to what it was within 5 years.
never going to happen when you have unions running the construction. OT don’t you know.Drag it out as long as possible just like road construction what takes a week to do will last a month or more and cost three times the cost.
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