Condé Nasties On Ground Zero Move: "Just Shoot Me"

Doesn't everyone have a Louis Vuitton towel for tennis lessons?

Yesterday, Condé Nast sent a memo to its employees alerting them that it was negotiating a move from Times Square to the World Trade Center in 2014. One "insider" told the Post, "I don't think they would have sent the memo if it wasn't a done deal," and many staffers were upset enough to say things like, "It's just depressing. Everybody is pretty bummed out about it. Nobody wants to move down there," and "If I'm still here by then, just shoot me."

Currently, the publisher of glossies such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker occupies 800,000 square feet in 4 Times Square; at ~~Freedom Tower~~ 1 World Trade Center, Condé Nast would get 1 million square feet. The Observer talked to some staffers as well, with one noting, "Basically everyone wants to get out of Times Square officially anyway. I did have a flash of concern. Of all the addresses in the world, do I really want mine to be One World Trade Center? ... Could you really pick a better target than Condé Nast? Literally everything that's wrong with the West.”

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By Jen Chung in News on August 4, 2010 10:50 AM

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Son of Spam

"If I'm still here by then, just shoot me."

Ironically, back in 2008, most of these same employees said that about 2010.

Phil

Poor Andre Leon Tally. You can't even buy a Louis Vuitton towel down there.

NannyState

Anna Wintour: the gargoyle with the parachute.

JRod5417

These people are pathetic. They should be happy they have jobs anywhere in NYC. Maybe they would be happier if their jobs got shipped out to Jersey City like mine did.

NewHCE

There has got to more to this. They are probably giving away space to the first big company to move in.

I would only complain from a commuter point of view.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

exactly and this company has lost many of its publicatins already and vogue in USA isn't faring so well.

NewHCE

I think they should put the mosque IN the new tower. Then no one will hit it.

wingedearth

The Israelis might bomb it again.

etypical

George Bush is Israeli?

angry_pickle

If they want to blow up a building, they won't hesitate about blowing up the mosque in there with it.

etypical

Yeah, he definitely shouldn't wear pelts. Ever.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

http://www.zimbio.com/Andre+Leon+Talley/articles/vTFiy60WuuY/Andre+Leon+Talley+attacked+fur+stole

Vogue has the ugliest shallowest delusionalist staff anyone. Good riddance. I bet taxpapers are subsidizing part of the rent.

youngpro

...and by 'good riddance' you mean 'good riddance' to midtown and 'hello' to Financial District?

etypical

Do I have to wait for them to move or can I just shoot Andre Tally when bear season starts in the fall, bc Tally is 1000% bear.

JacqueMehoff

I'll be more than happy to have the job of whomever is leaving. nothing better than walking to work. that's if I'm still alive in 2014.

CR

How about you just be happy you still have a job, especially considering the fact that you do something useless that doesn't make that much money anymore.

I'm also fairly certain that terrorists don't know who Conde Naste is, so don't go flattering yourselves. All of the West is pretty much an open target.

dollarmenu

"It's just depressing. Everybody is pretty bummed out about it. Nobody wants to move down there"

Times Square vs Financial District? Both seem equally unappealing to me.

slickshoes

what is unappealing about the financial district? It is a hundred times better than midtown and especially times square. there's a fraction of the cars and tourists and shopping downtown

Gwinny

Depends on what part of Midtown you are in. There are very few tourists in Midtown aside from the Times Square/Rock Center area.

And have you been downtown during the workweek? It's PACKED with tourists visiting Wall Street, Ground Zero, or on their way to the Staten Island Ferry/Battery Park... and, unlike in Midtown where the streets are wider, downtown is a maze of tiny sidestreets and cramped sidewalks (a vestige of the town's layout when that area was a small fishing village!). Broadway is under constant construction -- driving down there is impossible -- and the construction site around Ground Zero limits cars as well.... not to mention the fact that the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel empties out right there as well.

In short, I disagree with you about the Financial District being an easier place to be. Yes, Times Square itself sucks, but it is much less suckier now that half of it is a pedestrian plaza.