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Those are awesome pics Garcastle, thanks for the street level view! :)
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steel!!!! yay!!!! :banana:
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The above post on the "sophisticates" et al is why I have stopped posting on the Freedom Tower. The politics in this thread are piled up so high they need wings to keep them up.
Finally they are building this one. I love the design. |
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Hi, Beyond 1000! So, that's why I haven't seen you here. Yes, people DO have negative talk here, and they need to stop hating on the ones who want to see the tower built, mainly me. |
Great pictures!
I've made that long walk a few times...it was a beautiful day for it! |
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Ohhhhhhhhh... finnally one crane more, 2 then and where is the bldg?... nothing.. just cranes. 6 years only for 2 cranes. For a bldg make requires 600 years ..... or 6000000 years? :haha: :jester: :haha: Make me as clown. We will never have this bldg up. It is just marketing, marketing of ground zero forever.
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GarCastle, your photos are amazing!!! It's difficult to portray the true scope and immense size of the project; your shots really give a "You Are There" type of presence.
The slurry wall is quite impressive in this shot: http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/8437/dscn0533po5.jpg Again, thank you for an early morning call and an arse-tiring day. We all appreciate it! |
GarCastle, you are a trooper!
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Just to make it more formal and official, it should be called "The Tower of Freedom" |
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Oh, is that what they call it? I always thought it was One Liberty Island.:haha: |
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It's ridiculous for me to even be having this discussion. |
Silverstein, happily smiling over his Freedom Tower construction...
http://www.gothamist.com/attachments...lvserstein.jpg gothamist.com |
Quite honestly, I rather expect the term "World Trade Center" to gradually fade from public use. I always thought of the WTC as the Twin towers; I didn't even realize there WAS a 7 WTC (or a six or five or four, for that matter) prior to 9/11. It's quite clear to me that most visitors within a decade will not even realize that there is any particular relationship between the FT and, let's say, 4 WTC... no more than there is between the BOFA and the Verizon.
Within a decade, aside from a the Post Office and a few skyscraper fans, the term "World Trade Center" will (for the vast majority of the public) reference merely the old Twin Towers that once stood where the waterfalls will be. The radical difference in height and style between the new towers will ensure that. The famous building will be... the Freedom Tower, famously 1,776 feet tall. It's a catchy name, one that has already caught on and is sure to remain as firmly planted in the public's mind as, let's say, the comparatively cumbersome - and to most people, inexplicable - "Empire State Building." |
^Most people simply called it the Twin Towers. Few people even knew (or cared) that there were smaller buildings around the towers, also part of the World Trade Center.
The complex will still be known as the World Trade Center, even though the buildings themselves go by individual names. Silversein already has his towers as 200, 175, and 150 Greenwich Streets. Who knows what Tower 5 will be called?.. |
A few more pics from the site (taken Sunday, May 20th)...
They are also working on the West St underpass that will connect to the Freedom Tower and the rest of the WTC complex, making it possible to travel underground from BPC all the way to the Fulton Street Transit Center... http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/79350930/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/79350934/large.jpg "Ground Zero" is very active in all corners... http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/79350956/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/79139563/large.jpg But everyone knows what the star attraction is at this point... http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/79350966/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/79350966/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/77566378/medium.jpg |
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Oh, I know it will officially be called the WTC, and even in newspapers and such... but I think tourists, for one thing, will be specifically excited about the FT and therefore use THAT name a lot more. Even most New Yorkers, I bet, won't think of the entire place as a complex, even if intellectually they'll likely be aware that in fact it is.
But why argue? Time will tell. |
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