Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:52:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC Rebuilding #99:Site Plan Comments,More Table Work,More


My site plan comments,which I will mail to the ESDC P.O. Box
as soon as I get a printout of them (LAN trouble here),are attached
as a HTML file to this email,and are also on the web at
http://www.put.com/wtc/p1comm.html (an archive of my comment
submissions is now on the web as part of the http://www.put.com/wtc/
site).

Today Joe Wright,Andrew Oliff,and I were leafletting and gathering
petition signatures outside One Liberty Plaza.Since last week the
temporary construction tunnel on the Liberty Street sidewalk down
toward the WTC site has been removed.While there a long procession
of Buddhist monks passed us going to and from the site...anyone know
what they did there?

Joe and I were interviewed by a Terre Haute,Indiana newspaper;
while we were there Amiad Finkelthal of Team Twin Towers passed by
on his way to an interview with Greek television.When I got home I
had an email from the Save the WTC contact guy(mentioned last email
and it turned out he had been one of those I handed a flyer to also!

Joe sent me a longer report on the New York 1 event he attended
Thursday night...the moderator rather single-mindedly steered the
conversation toward the memorial,and would only let people speak once.
Sally Regenhard of Skyscraper Safety apparently had her own media crew
there,and Joe considered her remarks rather over-the-top in being
rehearsed.However,he did not get the impression,conveyed by Tom
Auchterlonie from a TV broadcast,that Monica Iken and Ron DeVito were
in a debate at any time during the evening.Today Joe gave me a copy
of the Coalition of 9/11 Families position paper on the site...a
position that if adopted would cripple useful development and ensure
a lasting undeserved legacy for the killers of their loved ones.
He also noted that New York One is rebroadcasting the meetings
over the weekend.

After we were nearly out of flyers and blank petiitons,we broke
up for the day...I walked uptown to the City Hall subway station
and got a chance to look at some buildings.

In response to a note from Alex Butziger,I believe that the 1890
World building replaced the burned one in function,not location.
And it turns out that the shape of the Park Row Building is in fact
more vertical...the photograph I had seen gave the impression,from
how it was framed,that the building was very broad and squat,but
the drawing of it on the World's-Tallest chart at
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/ is more accurate as to its
shape.At street level,where most storefronts on its whole block are
J&R Music World,Computer World,etc.,it's hard to tell where the
building ends,but though the block is a long one the building takes
up only a fraction of it.

Sitting in City Hall Park one can see a number of former World's-Tallest
sites.Looking south is a modern bank building that probably occupies
the site of the St. Paul Building...to the left is the Park Row Building,
further south One Liberty which occupies the site of the Singer Building,
and to one's right is the Woolworth Building.And of course the Twin
Towers were to the right of One Liberty.

VERY near the City Hall subway station,of course,is the all-important
September 5th hearing,which we must get as many people to as possible!
It formally starts at 6 PM,it may get delayed,but get on line early!
Looking down Spruce Street from the City Hall Park sidewalk,the venue,
the Schimmel Center,is on your left,the entrance used near the
bottom of the block.

We want speakers in every section of the auditorium and we need to
give them a supportive atmosphere to jar the politicos out of their
arch-memorialist mental fog!

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