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Photograph of the WTC Transportation Hub last month by Joe Woolhead/Silverstein Properties
Surprise, surprise: In the weeks since the various players in the World Trade Center's development met, nothing has happened! Even though politicians, including Mayor Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (in "a startling alliance"!), have criticized the Port Authority for slowing the progress of Ground Zero's future, since the PA refuses to pay for all the towers that developer Larry Silverstein wants, the Port Authority hasn't budged. Now Silverstein has given the Port Authority two weeks to come to an agreement, or else he'll take the whole thing to arbitration. Which could mean more delays.
Silverstein, who gained the lease to the World Trade Center shortly before the 9/11 attacks, is allowed to develop three towers, but the Port Authority says it can only finance one tower—prompting renderings of what the Towers would look like as short "stumpy" buildings.
The Post's Steve Cuozzo joins piling on the Port Authority by slamming the Santiago Calatrava's design for the PATH hub planned for Groun Zero. Besides pointing out how the Port Authority refers Grand Central Terminal as "Grand Central Station," he writes, "The agency should admit that the Hub's most visible public space ... is actually, and absurdly, much bigger than Grand Central's main hall, as the drawing [pictured] shows... The Hub is an unconscionable waste of precious Ground Zero earth, money and energy. For starters, it's still basically just a new PATH terminal, serving a relative handful of commuters. Again, the drawing helps make the point." The hub has faced some design changes, because the Port Authority wants to cut costs.
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For goodness sake, just make it a park already. The high finance industry has been nationalized and is being carted off to DC along with the tax revenue. We don't need any more office space. Besides, every raghead with a chip on his shoulder will try to fly another plane into it.
re:raghead.
come on really? did that slip from the viscous magma of your scary white-boy consciousness or are you just waving the neo-nazi flag openly now?
Viscous magma? How long have you been trying to shoehorn that into conversation? Flashback to junior high geology class?
I suppose if I had darker skin, uttering racial slurs would not only be acceptable but stupid white liberals would buy tickets to my stand up routine.
cry me a fucking river about not being able to use racial slurs, david duke. keep it klan baby.
Fine, I'll call them camel fuckers instead. Happy?
you're a disgrace to your race and obviously a pathetic little worm of a man. enjoy that.
Get back to me when it becomes socially unacceptable to say things like cracker, white trash, redneck and honky.
i'm gonna start a charity for poor oppressed white boys like ides who've been suffering 20 years of the oppression of political correctness.
fight the power my brothers, we can't let the black man keep us from our right to call them niggers!
No need to. If you've spent five minutes or more on the streets or subways of this city, you'd know it's mostly black people who call each other the dreaded N word.
8 years later, the site is still characterized by rubble and debris. We sure showed them terrorists that nothing can keep us from rebuilding...ummm...except for petty bureaucracy, money, and a wealthy set of morons.
I agree. Let's get some poor morons to sort this mess out.
By 'wealthy set of morons' I was referring to the quantity of morons, not their income bracket. Duh.
precious Ground Zero earth
Oh, for Christ's sake. It's this kind of thinking that's prevented anything from being built in 8 years.
These people are the worst. Just make it a park.
Or sell tours if they really only care about the money, which is what it seems.
The Port Authority can wave the white flag now. They have no real purpose here except to stall any development so it's time for Obama to grab this thing, issue the bonds and get the cranes up. GM is ten times the headache this shitshow is and they are already emerging from bankruptcy. The PA just needs to focus on cats and geese at airports.