New York: On The Rebound

Since we have just passed the five year anniversary of September 11^th, there has obviously been thorough coverage of New York this week, and looking through it I came across some interesting posts regarding the city’s architecture. The first, on Vik Rubenfeld’s blog “The Big Picture,” discusses the new Freedom Tower and rest of the new World Trade Center complex, which is being built near Ground Zero. Its design plan is available on the Lower Manhattan Development Project's site. This is the third in a series of posts (click here for the first or second post) he has written on the topic over the past year and a half, following the progress of the designs. My comment is #2. The second post, by Jen Chung on “The Gothamist,” is about large amounts of fuel stored at the Western Union Building; the landmark structure houses telecom equipment, and the fuel is used to run generators during blackouts. There is an article about it on "Downtown Express." The other comments on this post were particularly interesting to me. Most of the commenters are New York residents, and they seem to be evenly divided on whether the amount of fuel should be decreased. (Sorry I accidentally posted the comment twice.)