The Freedom Tower

I won’t go there and suggest there has been too much bungling downtown but problems at the Deutsche Bank building seem to be mounting.
Two more NYFD men were injured today when a piece of equipment crashed into a shed at the Ground Zero site. The building could have safely been brought down years ago when people were afraid to go anywhere near Ground Zero. The bungling began then.
The New York Times says The building is “located across the street from the World Trade Center and damaged in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Work to demolish the building had been halted after a fire broke out there on Saturday, killing two firefighters. But a small group of workers were still working at the site to shore up the damaged and condemned building, remove debris and contain toxic material when the accident occurred, fire officials said.

“The accident is the latest chapter in the seemingly doomed effort to dismantle a building that was damaged beyond repair on 9/11. Residents and elected officials have long complained that the work has taken too long and endangered those who live and work near the site, at 130 Liberty Street in the World Trade Center area. The building, which once stood at 41 stories, has been brought down to 26 stories.

The fire department said that a construction worker entered an elevator at the work site at about 2 p.m. with a pallet jack, when he “lost control of the motorized lifting tool.”

“The pallet jack crashed through the hoistway door and fell through a construction shed on the ground level,” the fire department said in a statement. “Two firefighters standing under the shed were injured when there was a partial collapse.”

The two firefighters were taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition late this afternoon, fire offiicials said.