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Mike Segar / Reuters
After 9/11 politicians and real estate companies wanted to rebuild the World Trade Center “bigger and better”. Experts believe that serious wrong decisions were made. The city has not lost any of its vitality.
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Curved and pointed, they protrude three feet from Liberty Street. At the southern end of the World Trade Center (WTC), strong steel teeth block the entrance to the underground facility for inspecting the trucks that supply the shops and offices of the building complex that was newly constructed after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Andrew Lynn sees it as an absurd bad investment: “In October 2012, the storm ‘Sandy’ flooded the entire southern tip of Manhattan and this installation too.” In addition, important parts of the WTC’s power supply, for example, were installed underground, which made extensive renovations necessary after the flood.
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