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State and federal agencies may have agreed to lease over a third of the space in Freedom Tower, but it doesn't mean people actually want to work there. The NY Times spoke to prospective employees from agencies who have mixed feelings about going. While some think it would be an honor, one state Department of Transportation employee, Alicia Ferrer who escaped from the World Trade Center on September 11, said:
“If my life depended on it, I couldn’t go there. It would be beyond imaginable to put someone back there. If you had to go back there every day where you know their souls and spirits have to be, I don’t know. I couldn’t do it every single day.”This comes after Port Authority chairman Anthony Coscia told the Bergen Record that he wouldn't make Port Authority employees work at Freedom Tower: "Twice these people were the subject of that attack, and I am not going to ask them to move into that building. I'll resign, but I won't ask them to move into that building." Well, that's certainly honest. The Port Authority says Coscia actually made those remarks six months ago and that Coscia's "never questioned the safety of Freedom Tower and believes that it is tremendously safe and secure." Interesting - six months ago is before WTC developer Larry Silverstein agreed to Port Authority's terms and conditions about building the Freedom Tower. And the Port Authority is supposed to lease Tower 4 (the Maki tower) in the master plan.
Would you work in Freedom Tower? Officials continue to tout it as the safest building in the world, and the Daily News' Michael Daly says the FBI and CIA should occupy the top floors. And speaking of World Trade Center development, Moody's signed a lease for one third of 7 World Trade Center.
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"Would you work in Freedom Tower?"
Just show me the money.
I'd work there. The only way terrorists are going to hit downtown again is with an atomic bomb. And I would rather get vaporized immediately than live through the aftermath.
I'd not only work at Freedom Tower, I'd live there. Assuming it was, say, $1000/mo for a decent size one-bedroom. If you live in fear, the terrorists win.
It appears selling newspapers based on fear never ends. Of course some people traumatized by 9/11 will not want to work in a new office tower there. There are many more people who would work there, however.
I would.
You couldn't pay me in enough cheerleaders to live or work in that thing. It may be "the safest building in the world" from a purely theoretical point of view, but it's got a big target on it just waiting to be hit, AGAIN.
I'd try to sue my employer first, then just quit.
BTW, if Alicia Ferrer is just worried about "souls and spirits" being there, I think she can hire a priest, rabbi, voodoo, hoodoo and imam to feng shui the place out.
I'd work there. Tomorrow. Of course, I have to admit that I have the luxury of not having previously worked in a building that was subject to terrorist attack, so I would give some people a pass if they weren't up to it.
On the other hand, let's remember that the Twin Towers were decimated by terrorist attack and 17,000 plus still survived. Just sayin'.
interland, your a moron. "I'd try to sue my employer first", you are what sucks in this country, pure and simple. You suck at life and I hope you get hit by a car.
No way would I work there. Too scary. After I saw the towers fall, I decided I couldn't live or work more than 15 stories above ground, in any building--I had nightmares about trying to run down smoke-clogged stairwells to save my life. I have no quarrel with those who would happily work there, but it is not for me.
I would be disinclined to work in the World Trade Center. All things being equal, if I had a job offer from a company, let's say midtown, and another located at the WTC site, I'd take the midtown position. ... and it's not just because it's a PITA for me to get to downtown Manhattan.
I comes down to the fact that at a minimum, working at the WTC is a headache. Even if you aren't scared of another terrorist attack, you're still going to work in your office and think of what happened there. I think that would be just one more thing that made your life stressful, and would be very distracting. Frankly, my work is stressful enough. I don't need additional grief.
But, if my company did move there, I'd suck it up and deal with it.
A friend of mine is a state employee and she _is_ being moved down to the WTC site. From what I'm told, nobody is happy that Pataki, to shore up his "legacy" and put some tenants in there, is making them all pick up and move.
Here's a thought: if your employer relocates to the FT and you don't want to work there, quit.
We don't need to hear how scared and fearful you are. It offers nothing to any of us and is self-serving.
"No One Really Wants to Work at Freedom Tower" Gothamist is a liar. This site is quickly becoming a tabloid.
If you want to get scared, watch A&E's "A Haunting".
Those towers will be filled with stories.
But, I highly doubt it will be attacked by terrorists, maybe demons.
I don't blame people who used to work at the WTC site for not wanting to work at the new Freedom Tower. But come on: People DO want to work (and live) there. Stop sensationalizing.
I wouldn't work there unless it was renamed what it really is:
'The excuse to erode civil liberties and attempt to instill maximum fear while carelessly tossing around the word "freedom"' Tower.
It is inevitable...
Ben K... hear, hear.
woops not ben k.. anonymass
heres an idea....lets move the embassies of all of them muslims nations there. lets see them attack the towers again!
I would gladly work there, high floor or low, and I'd be proud to do so, simply because it is not what the people responsible for the fall of the towers would want me to do, and I stand in opposition of them and their principles. Of course, the design could have been far better (rebuild the towers, and bigger, anyone?), and the name is absolutely ridiculous, but I carry utmost respect for those who fell, and I see working there as a way of honoring them, because we all know many of them would want us to continue with strength.
eddie, werd. But not a car, a delivery truck or MTA bus. It is people like interlard who make this country suck.
I'd work there. I worked in the Empire State Building, on a *very* high floor, and it was fine with me. If I were there that day, however, I wouldn't work past the second floor of any building. I would feel no need to put myself through that again.
Yes, putting the FBI and CIA on the top floor would be a GREAT idea to assuage the people who are worried it will be a target.
What makes the Freedom Tower so safe? What are the proposed new safety features? Does anyone know?
Yes, putting government officials in charge of security on the top floors might give them an extra incentive to stay alert. Granted that DOT employee might just be stamping papers but DOT is in charge of monitoring what travels around our state and country.
Put Bush, his family, along with Cheney and his at the very top since we're so obviously safer than when he came into office.
As for housing embassies from predominantly Muslim countries, that won't work. The people who carry out these kinds of attacks are anarchists in terms of organized government. The only law they recognize is shari'a law.
More than happy to work there. In fact, I would love to. TriBeCa has become an amazing place, and screw the terrorist. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to simply forget, and continue living like they did on September 10th. But I saw the whole thing and said I would never let the terrorist win. Life is too short anyways.
The lower floors have 20-foot-thick blast-proof concrete walls with no windows.
The upper floors have highly reflective glass at many angles, so if you shine a laser pointer at the building you can blind terrorists. Or something.
My only problem would be the toxic dust in the air from 9/11, otherwise I wouldn't have a problem working in freedom towers.
But why do some think it would be an honor to work there? Bizzare.
i think i'd work there. if they are having so much trouble filling it, why don't they just cheapen the rent for the first few years? once it becomes desirable or thriving, i feel like they could make adjust the price?
#28: at this point, the "toxic dust" is pretty much a non-issue. During and for a while afterward, yes. However; it's been 5 years. Your lungs aren't going to fill with tumors just by working below Canal Street.
It's not a tumor.
The solution is simple - move the House and Senate to the top floors, along with the various "National Security" agencies and all the White House offices. Self preservation is the only thing that gets these "people" to do anything.
Five years from now this may be less of an issue than now. I, personally agree with whoever says it would be an honor to work at the Freedom Tower. Although I wasn't here five years ago, I'm sure the people who perished would want us to stand in defiance against these extremists...because, if you fear them, you are allowing them an element of control.