by Lionel Bascom — July 26th, 2008 — 1 comment
A headline brought a bit of good news today on a long-awaited project: “Freedom Tower’s future finally bright.” But it was published in a newspaper in Miami, where an 83-year-old building has been fighting for survival, and not The Freedom Tower in New York where the New York Times has chronicled “significant delays and cost overruns” for the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower and other office towers at ground zero earlier this month.
Quoting from the pages of the Times, the newspaper says even name of the building has been fading from the New York tower. As David Dunlap, a metropolitan reporter for The New York Times, wrote on City Room on July 9:
The chance of anyone in government publicly jettisoning a “Freedom” sobriquet is less than remote. But since the departure of Gov. George E. Pataki, a quiet shift has been discernible in formal usage. The Port Authority now speaks of “1 World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower.” Though Mr. Pataki remains attached to the name, I think you can expect to find it growing more and more vestigial. Just don’t hold your breath for an official announcement.
10:39 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News
At the rate we’re going with U.S. governmental regulations and the apathy that surrounds American consciousness, perhaps the vestigial characterisic for the word, ‘freedom’ may be appropriate. How many freedoms do Americans really exercise these days, anyway?
Jeanne · July 27th, 2008 at 9:22 am