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WTC "Survivor's Staircase" To Be Moved To Storage
March 08, 2008
The last remaining above-ground piece of the World Trade Center will be moved to a storage location on Sunday to accommodate construction.
The so-called "Survivor's Staircase" is expected to be transported several hundred feet to a temporary storage location on the edge of the Trade Center site.
The 37-step staircase connected the plaza outside the Twin Towers to the street below. The stairs provided an escape route for people fleeing the buildings on September 11, 2001.
Initial plans to destroy the staircase drew significant criticism. State officials eventually agreed to separate the stairs from their concrete base.
Current plans call for the staircase to be brought back to the site this summer as part of a memorial.
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Now, with any luck at all, some hapless bureaucrat will misplace the paperwork indicating where precisely the stairs are stored, and they'll wind up shelved permanently next to the Ark of the Covenant in some government warehouse somewhere...
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