http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/07/nyregion/07SITE.html?pagewanted=1 The gargantuan cleanup is set to be finished by June. The caved-in subway line is slated to be rebuilt and running again by November. The first new office tower could start rising as early as the end of the year. And the PATH commuter line from New Jersey, for which hundreds of millions of dollars have already been made available, is scheduled to be back in service by the end of 2003. It is a pace of progress at the World Trade Center site that was unthinkable right after Sept. 11, and that has surprised everyone from city and state officials to real estate developers to victims' families. But the stunningly rapid work also means that questions about what comes next may no longer be a comfortably distant debate: officials acknowledge in interviews that a 16- acre hole will occupy the site by summer's start, and they admit such a scene — debris gone, a sense of promise palpable — could well create pressure to have answers about downtown's future faster than anyone ever expected.... Continue
I think we should build a big, gaudy tower of commerce. A shrine to consumerism and the spread of American iddeals throughout the world, complete with strip joints and p*rn studios. Then tell Osama to stick that in his hookah and smoke it, terrorist b****.
