WTC Memorial Magnificent, but at a Steep Price | NBC New York

WTC Memorial Magnificent, but at a Steep Price | NBC New York: "WTC Memorial Magnificent, but at a Steep Price
The roughly $700 million project will cost $60 million a year to operate
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{quite frankly, i'm never tempted to stop at the museum shop, at the exhibit or even glance at the site even though i walk by ground zero every weekday. maybe its that proximity breeds contempt. more likely, i don't want to dwell on the worst experience of my entire life. i'll remember the lost on my own terms.

 on the other hand, the tourists are many. from the very beginning folk came from the world over to stare at a construction site that could very well be a construction site anywhere else.

 now we want to provide a monument almost as ugly architecturally as the twin towers were so that the rubber-neckers get their money's worth. of course, New York will carry the bulk of the bill. it remains to be seen if tourism generates enough blood money to afford us some respite}[ero]

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friends who frequent this blog have seen similar images before.

we regularly shoot the Ground Zero construction site,
to show the progress being made in the construction
 of the FREEDOM TOWERS that will replace the
World Trade Center site of the horrible massacre of 2001.

if you're curious; those bright red girders in one of the slides
 are the support beams for Tower One. each beam weighs
several tons!

the people walking around are either new yorkers, tourists
 or construction workers (with a few mysterious "others",
 such as the local Boat-Rockers Union, for good measure).

the folk with the cameras are the
tourists (they love to take pictures of the blue liners
which are meant to keep their prying eyes from the
 work (or lack of) being performed.

the folk with the hardhats are the construction workers.
one of them fell from a girder last week at this very spot.
 :-(

the people with nasty grimaces are native to the Big Apple.

eagle-eyed visitors will notice that these three groups are not
mutually exclusive.

BTW, if you want to find this exact spot, its the corner of
Vesey and Washington Sts.

..
.ero

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