Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:37:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC Rebuilding #97:News and More


The New York Post's Steve Cuozzo has come out
with another attack on the lies being used to
push for cutbacks in office space on the WTC site:
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/55952.htm

Mayor Bloomberg met yesterday with family-member activists
who wanted his support for leaving the footprints empty down
to bedrock,displacing train routes.He was noncommittal about
this,but emphasized his desire for housing on the site.

A recent problem caused by the destruction of the non-residential
character of urban districts was pointed out to me...because there
are more people in Chelsea,there is a need for electricity substations
to provide them with power...and a community of neighbors who agitate
to prevent such things being built near them!

While,as was pointed out to me,the idea of using the whole WTC site
for electricity substations (the new 7 WTC is being built on top of
an electricity substation) would not be a welcome result of this,
this goes to show the error of urban planning that does not provide
for areas that are NOT residential,and NOT planned by and for local
residents,that are therefore better able to serve the whole city.
Bloomberg seems blind to this.

A deal has been cut to change the name of Newark International Airport to
Newark Liberty International Airport (rather than "Liberty International
Airport at Newark" as proposed) and extend its lease from 2031 to 2065.

I've been discussing the issue of petition wording with some volunteers,
I'm open to suggestions but cautious about any coalition-busting content.
Weather forecasts make me unsure just when I'll be coming into Manhattan
this weekend.If I'm not there,I'll be finishing my site plan comments.

We also need to plan the rally!

No reports yet from either of the hearings/events tonight
(I was unable to see the televised one).I know Joe Wright and
Jonathan Hakala were going to Battery Park City,Russ Barton at
least I think was going to Queens...if you were there,how did
they go?

The Gotham Gazette board is now requiring valid emails to post
messages,while Riff's NYCS backup site,which he is hoping the whole
NYCS community will migrate to,now requires logins to even SEE messages.
Since I avoid such entanglements,I will not be reading messages on that
site.There were a few twit messages posted on the CBS board today...
the DownTownNYC board has been pretty quiet but traffic has mainly
been on our side.

Remember,the Manhattan hearing is a week from tonight!
May be leafletting/canvassing that day before getting on line...
we need as many warm bodies spread through that auditorium as
we can get!

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.