by Lionel Bascom — April 2nd, 2007 — 1 comment
Work is progressing at Ground Zero, whether the media is reporting every detail or not.
A building on Church Street across the street from Ground Zero, for example, offers a panoramic view of the original World Trade Centre Towers. The buildings are gone now, for sure, but the work rebuilding the New Jersey bound Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) Terminal below destroyed in the collapse of the twin towers is amazing progress considering the tons of steel, engineering and lost life about this site that too place just a few years ago. Today it’s a bustling terminus that connects underground to the New York subway system, with thousands of commuters once more using it to come and go from Manhattan. Only in New York, only in this city where I learned how to make my way in the world, only in New York would an ordinary kid like me live most of his professional life amazed at the many things a city like New York, Montreal, Paris or Tokyo can grow from nothings like us.. New Yorkers, Montrealers. Parisians… In this picture of sections of lower Manhattan underground, you can see the route the PATH trains take, emerging from below the World Finance Center just below the building that will become the new Freedom Tower and a green plaza with reflecting pools, office towers and retail space.
11:25 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Freedom Tower News, Homeland Security, Politics
How can you use the term, “us nothings,” in the same breath as “can grow” and “New York?” My feet touched the streets of Manhattan for the first time as an adult. I hold the beautiful individuals, such as yourself, who have made this city what so grand for “country bumpkins” like myself, in the highest regard. On 9/11, my country was attacked by ruthless, ignorant slime. Your heart was broken, yet, you have rebuilt this city from the rubble, assisted the ill, informed the public, and have begun the creative process of insuring that this city is the most beloved in the world.
Now, that is “something.”
Jeanne · April 3rd, 2007 at 5:25 am