The Freedom Tower

Blogger Steve Cuozzo says we might be in for a miserable future when it comes to finishing the construction at Ground Zero.
Cuozzo, writing on 911Blogger.com, is suggesting that there are so many things going wrong on the streets surrounding the pit at Ground Zero and in the pit itself that the future is looking quite grim.
‘ll look at what’s gone wrong inside the pit in the coming weeks,” the blogger says, “but for now, consider the sickening conditions the PA and City Hall let fester all around the perimeter of the 16-acre “sacred ground.”
“Ground Zero’s borders deserve a patina of dignity for anyone wishing to recall the World Trade Center that was, to mourn the victims of 9/11 or to contemplate the site’s future.

It’s bad enough the view remains bracketed by the blackened hulks of 130 Liberty St. and Fiterman Hall. But at least there’s a theoretical, contamination-related excuse for the eyesores’ continued presence.

But not the flimsiest justification exists for the rowdy, open-air bazaar of illegal junk-peddlers and in-your-face conspiracy-mongers along Church, Vesey and Liberty streets - an indefensible rupture of civic order in a city that’s managed to shut down squeegee men and three-card-monte games.

No one can object to the First Amendment right to display or sell 9/11-con- spiracy nonsense (or plain junk). But that doesn’t absolve the city and the PA of enforcing their own rules - and making sure visitors can watch what’s going on without being hassled as if they’re in a Third World flea market.

The conditions have long dismayed Downtown residents, businesses and commuters - yet neither the city nor the PA has responded to their complaints except sporadically.”