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I like the way you say the old NYC came crashing down with the towers, very true. Post 9/11/01, the dead skyline depicts Bloomberg era NYC extremely well, people can say what they will about Guiliani but the city still had a middle class then. Today, the majority of New Yorkers are not actually NYers(not that I am saying that is a bad thing, but the city has lost its soul). I 'm 44 and still miss the old skyline and I can agree with others, what was the point of building one lonely skyscraper? I remember the talk of "four towers". It's a modern looking building but it is honestly not extraordinary, I see nothing special about it other than its height. The twin towers were known throughout the world, they made our skyline.
I remember driving over the GW when I went to visit family(I was born in 1980 in The Bronx and grew up in Rockland county NY), the towers always appealed to me but it was all I knew. I never thought that one day I would not see them perfecting the skyline.
That one large tower we call the freedom tower is rather dull, it does nothing for the skyline and it will never be the same. This is just my opinion.
- Joe
I used to take the A train from 175th to World Trade, worked down there; got off the train, went to Mrs Fields for my 'breakfast' and used to love looking up as I walked to work. I thought they looked cool.
Yeah, they should have built two matching towers. They could have changed the design up a little, although I liked the originals just fine, but we had two towers and now we have one.
TECHNICALLY speaking, we'd have 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 WTC. And had it not been for money problems, the main 4 towers would have been going up at the same time. You guys talk as if 2, 3, and 4 just don't matter. Hell, you guys talk as if 4 isn't opening up his year.
As someone who came here a lot before moving because I have family here, yes.
The first time I came back after 9/11, and saw the new skyline, I cried. We were playing the Ramones. It was like a contrast of Old NYC and New NYC. Now, I can go up on the roof of our building and see the new towers go up. It's interesting to say the least.
My brother is a professional photographer, and he took panorama shots of the towers throughout the 1990s, when he was getting started. Would anyone be interested if I posted them sometime?
As someone who came here a lot before moving because I have family here, yes.
The first time I came back after 9/11, and saw the new skyline, I cried. We were playing the Ramones. It was like a contrast of Old NYC and New NYC. Now, I can go up on the roof of our building and see the new towers go up. It's interesting to say the least.
My brother is a professional photographer, and he took panorama shots of the towers throughout the 1990s, when he was getting started. Would anyone be interested if I posted them sometime?
Sure would, I also have a few pics I would post of my cousin, his motorcycle and some old friends posing in lower Manhattan with the two towers in the distance. If my math is right, we were about 24 - 25 and I believe the pic is from '91 - '92. The funniest part of the picture is the contrast from 20+ years ago public parking garage prices and today in 2013... Amazing to say the least!
Yeah, they should have built two matching towers. They could have changed the design up a little, although I liked the originals just fine, but we had two towers and now we have one.
Actually you guys currently have two (three if you include WTC 7) and two more on the way (three if WTC 5 ever gets built).
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