Gothamist: Map of the Day: World Trade Center as Fortress

soothsayer

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:18:23 -0500

not gonna happen. there will be no sallyport on church street. where will you reroute all those hundreds of buses that must go north during rush hour?

west side Michael

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:34:50 -0500

It's still a sad graveyard ,what ever the Landlords wish to do. I hate going down there ,the cry of the dead say we should have had it made into a 12 acre park as a memorial not another eco disaster hi rise conclave. Who in their right mind wants to now work down there?. I was downtown when it happened ,voting so I may not be objective.

Ph

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:22:07 -0500

Freedom Tower ain't free!

wowthatsucks

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:10:03 -0500

Hmmm, looks similar to the way the NYPD took over the municipal parking lot under Police Plaza and Park Row & neighboring streets in Chinatown. Nahhh, that didn't cause too much headache.

EastRiver

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:00:38 -0500

Except not one major american airline has retrofitted their planes with reinforced doors. Source please.

zodak

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:48:48 -0500

snake plissken will still be able to get it.

S.D.

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:39:14 -0500

Um, Snowman, Who's "S.B."?? (sigh) I'm not particularly "anti" anything, but riddle me me this genius: How will this make us safer when the entire Island has targets?? You know, Like Citibank Building on 53rd, the Empire State Building on 34th, NYPL on 40th? Ooops! Am I emboldening our enemies? My Bad... As the buildings are allegedly resistant to bombing as per the NYPD, what's wrong with the normal and effective barriers? OR is this just to give the enclave of people working and living there a false sense of security I know! Maybe this is a back door method to reduce congestion? Hmmmm, Very Clever! Hey! You were posting at "12:41AM"??? Can't sleep?

matty

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:30:45 -0500

"That's what the reinforced cockpit doors and airport security for." Except not one major american airline has retrofitted their planes with reinforced doors.

snowman

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:41:31 -0500

"Great, an exclusive Enclave in the name of 'security'...." ~S.D. Okay, people like this will always find something to complain about. S.D. I'm sure you're very pleased with yourself for the perceived irony you discovered... And, I'm equally sure that the exclusivity of the area would apply mainly to VEHICLES that don't need to be there... Anti-government-you, S.B., would be allowed to stroll right in as long as you weren't visibly laden with explosives! And wasn't the Anti-Atlantic Yards cabal saying that AY shouldn't be built b/c it would be too close to active streets and thus would be too vulnerable to a terrorist-driven-vehicle-bourne-explosive?? ....You can't win with some people.

EastRiver

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:01:47 -0500

Can we please stop calling it the "Freedom Tower"? There was an article in the Times a few months ago about how state documents have been increasingly referring to the building as WTC 1 and not as the Freedom Tower. Of course, this has annoyed the usual suspects but they have yet to rally as nothing is official yet.

edEx

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:59:09 -0500

^sarcasm

Peter

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:20:19 -0500

The "war" on terrorism is over. We won. End of discussion.

eveostay

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:18:24 -0500

Did any of you read the post? It's just to keep motor vehicles out. This could be a really great pedestrian environment if they do it right.

emilydickinson

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:35:51 -0500

I worked on that black for many years, worked uptown, and now I'm back again in that neighborhood. It's getting overrun with gawking tourists. I usually have no problem with tourists, but this whole 'compound' setup is really to control crowds of people who visit NYC and feel some compulsion to see 'Ground Zero'. This is the best case for , 'Move along folks, nothing to see here...' I've ever heard of. I hate to see something like the monstrosity above go up downtown. That's an old, very cool neighborhood with some of NYCs best hidden secrets. Let's leave well enough alone. @DaveHogarty: When the zombies come I'll be commandeering a water ferry from World Financial, so feel free to hop on board. Next stop, Bermuda...Lost fans and fantasist's can catch another boat.

Dave Hogarty

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:24:46 -0500

On the upside, when the zombies come, at least some NYers will have a full-amenity dystopian redoubt to fall back to.

edEx

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:17:00 -0500

with all those ground tactics how will they secure the airspace?

interlard

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:15:02 -0500

Can we please stop calling it the "Freedom Tower"? 9/11 wasn't about freedom, it was about religious nutcases and US foreign policy. Perhaps "We're Really Sorry We Funded the Mujahideen Tower"?

Spiritof76

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:52:04 -0500

There are plenty more highly visible targets for truck and car bombs. Can you imagine the kind of mayhem a few such bombs on any NYC bridge or any large bridges around the world would create? It could look like something from out of "I Am Legend." You can't protect everything. If we live in terror, then indeed the terrorists have won.

EastRiver

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:35:31 -0500

And this will stop jets flying into buildings how? It doesn't. That's what the reinforced cockpit doors and airport security for. These procedure are for truck and car bombs. Perhaps you have seen them on television. Any other questions, smart guy?

badtzmaru

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:25:32 -0500

Great, on my way to Freedom Tower I will be frisked! And how will this affect shopping trips to Century 21?

jt10000

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:08:01 -0500

MidCFrank beat me to it.

MFer

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:02:40 -0500

And this will stop jets flying into buildings how?

S.D.

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:01:03 -0500

Great, an exclusive Enclave in the name of "security"....

MidCFrank

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:52:51 -0500

The terrorist won.

Chimbles

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:51:27 -0500

Finally U.S. got on board and is implementing communist tactics.... yeah couple decades behind the crowd, but better late than never amirite or what?