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After the LMDC announced it would go ahead with plans for the World Trade Center Memorial, a sister of a September 11 victim will be protesting at Ground Zero by sleeping on a sidewalk across the street. Rosaleen Tallon, whose firefighter brother Sean died, says that the memorial's subterranean design is disrepectful, used her brother's cold-weather gear (he was a marine) last night when she camped out last night. 1010 WINS says that Reverend Bill Minson, who had been a ground zero chaplain, would also stay there until the design changes. We'll see if LMDC head Stefan Pryor tries to speak with them directly.
And in other news, WTC developer Larry Silverstein may be more willing to let the Port Authority manage some of the space. Plus, Democratic gubernatorial hope Tom Suozzi said he'd support residences at Ground Zero, trying to drive a wedge between Democratic front-runner Eliot Spitzer, whose allies of NY State Senator Sheldon Silver and Mayor Michael Bloomberg bitterly disagree about residential space at the WTC.
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Some concerned citizens need to get together and implode the black shrouded bldg and send the bill to Duetsche Bank HQ....this is pathetic!!
God forgive me for feeling this way, but I am getting so *sick* of the 911 families blocking every proposed move on Ground Zero-it's like they are good at saying what they *don't* want there, but maybe they could be more constructive and start suggesting what they would want there-as it stands now, we are getting more corporate high rises, retail(!) and a mediocre memorial-pretty much thanks to an overly deferential government and a whiny 911 family lobby. So, so sick of the whole lot of them.
I think, after 4+ years, we can assume that nothing will be built at GZ--and the place will remain a gaping gash in the landscape of lower Manhattan--as long as the families have any sort of say in the process.
And they will continue to have a say in the process, and their message is: build nothing here.
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Seriously? This is really beyond the point. They are protesting because it will be below ground? Weren't these people the ones who protested to have the stubs of the support columns included in the design? I'm not sorry for feeling this way. I was affected by 9/11 too and I officially feel like the families along with just about every politician who has touched this project need to back off and shut their mouths because we are tired of being unable to move forward as a city due to them. What we need is a a modern day Robert Moses. Someone who has a singular vision of something great that can be created here and won't be stopped by a infighting and special interests (and before I get my head handed to me I mean the pre-megalomaniac Robert Moses - the one who took over projects like the Triborough and actually managed to get them completed after so many years of exactly this type of idiocy)
Here here, Kevin. At this point between the 'concern' of the familys of victims and the greed of Larry Silverstein, the place will be a fiasco that might even derail Bostons 'big dig' as a good plan wrapped in bad planning and bad ideas.
It's an embarassment that the place is still in the state it is, and all parties involved are to blame. It's sickening.
I think most NYer's are pretty fed up with the few unrealistic 9-11 families that are impeding the progress at GZ. There's really only a dozen of these families, but unfortunately they are also the most vocal, and politicians are afraid to tangle with them in a publicity battle.
Ground Zero does not belong to them. We were all affected by the eleventh. And while my heart certainly goes out to them, to have it co-opted by the families is no better than to have it co-opted by the Republicans, as it was before the convention.
GZ belongs to anyone and everyone who was in NY that day, who lives here, lived here, stayed here, or came here afterward. Anyone who continued to have faith in the town. To have it taken away by anyone - no matter how morally bound they feel they are - is to have a piece of your soul pushed away.
We should show the LMDC support for pushing back.
A few protestors won't stop the memorial. It's one of the few elements of the plans that people agree is well designed. The site will attract perpetual protestors about any number of issues and non-issues.
Very few people care about what the "911 families" think anymore. I just wish politicians would get the message. Sleep tight, Rosie, don't let the rats bite! :-)
And it's ridiculous that they're protesting NOW, when everything has been put into motion - I read recently that they were all asked for their input over a year ago when the plans were first being vetted. Why did they suddenly decide to speak out against it now? They had their chance, and they didn't take it. Now they need to go along with the plans like everyone else, or nothing will get done.
I am starting to think that the big hole in the ground that is currently there is an efective memorial.
Hopefully the melted Coke bottle "Freedom Tower" will go the way of the Westway, West Side Yard stadium, etc.
If the Freedom Tower is ever built, I will seriously redesign my living room so my windows don't look out on it. UGLIEST THING EVER. Plus nothing would say "STRIKE HERE" more.