Article excerpt regarding 90 West Street gargoyles

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

a0 9.5 A29 HISTORIC DOWNTOWN BUILDING

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a at Ground ero BY ROBERT KAHN

F e• Cass Gillw r

00 West St. was I 1 i r- A ind by debris fn m the sue. World trade Center. debate Ground Zero r raged over whether the 19(17 ' tower. !het: a cununercial prop- t s art , could cvcu be saved. t;,~ y ejsiii*~ ni;s Intl.nitlg. the apafnluem ` r y ...k aC C'. rental office attheconverred ! I, 2'et S'e. r building opens for business. concluMvely answering that p t o ,end m i ing way fir ttiori 1transiting. -scot xyuem j i had uc Should the hack bghiing I •(~„~ in lu.ruslsluuc'bednxnubc: '- IL,. ,J.c: .. ,. . angled to latter the GE stainless ~(4 11Ai steel oven. or adjusted to:arent - lion nearing its end. They af.•t pp ~a ate the t?ambon-plank flouts? credit the loir-taory grans nst', J2 WP' wPlll}r Some $I5t) million — part from heat-resistant terra-cotta paneling liberty Bonds and tax incentives, and rnarhle.-..ird-steel stairwt liv. par, !rune owner Kilx•I Cu.. Sr:erk Still, the sieakhou.c in di, f+g`'-: ca{t tl and 6(5 Ho-cis"'has groutdflixr ac ts destroyed by why guns: into replacing 7.015) pats sibs i i ig stee I Oil the north :at. Wl R ws 1 torn s. utta I•Kade. ripening The lot rc m t ornamentation of u.. nods n esf.ind gutting the nen. lions .uxd eagles were ohm ii hri... its Gothic property's scarred interior. away. 9;,Tl yr sheets on the slop .irr Move-ire: at the 410-unit corn- ling man•:ard roof were peeled old •j plea begin May 1, with full nest,- like the rats 05 .1 coffee-cup lid panty espec'ted by late- filly. Inside, !'m. h::rn.-d (or three days. fees are welcome. Infhco'eff• rt;!orebuild. "l'ye worked hen to long now pnlit it eaeenirives. led by 1 4 tin Anatpst immune it) ,thi% view," Thomas O'HsraArc•hiter ant _- ~- PHOTOS BY JORI KLEIN i '-aidAnJicw Gordon. ctmnsmtc- Lctiine Builders, hart: f;! sr- tioli pruic.:l manager for Levine passed in expt•nditures and t • m. r! T linikler.. as hr looked min a win the interrupted rcnovniou low ofUnit f+0 and into the The top floors o191) W.-,, :;n• bathtub at Ground 'lent, home to dozens of gar '.o Ar hirects andergi:nrrssy owls,goat ll r -J µni the to-storm 9U West survnlJ more than M0 i - .I,d sept U partly because its north- replacement 1 - .

l LI _ •r i ern fns:ute was already covered in ing's most o7 m,.,ab-Ie t •our: t 'raffigclin} fir a ❑en-ye:r renova- the 45•feot mansard roof. 1ht Seaboard Weatherprrofing i -u. Island and :hc New York harbor. reprtdut•:J 'very rlrrail of i t i! fy, f 1111 Gilhcrl's original. spending more than S4 million k{ f . - 11 1 deoration alum. ''t! . . .. building e;•+;! e, i,;;t',,, . t r r{ r f c 1 11 I itruc.l .• ..It; v: . ., Cf Whr i i i e• r Ili this S !

A tr F t t lit''-. I v . -,, e t arc l .I .: ,[ l sec .i;m yl trl r a :h had fx•r... ..e.•red for halls cow u ry.'1'M•y .ire .ill now exposed. Peter !-,-eenson. a princip:d . d Kibel, deflects questions shornt the emotional impact of the project and its gill wounds, preferring to dwell on going forward, or looking beck even further is Iina:, am the engineer- ing deri.iiiis master architect Gilbert made. "It was solidly built 100 years 90 West. right. and the De•„~•.rhe An eagle on the 15th floor, above. At ago.'• I.e•venson said. "Oheivusly. Bank building covered in 200i. left, the building tree of its netting. it's witli!;toust quite a tilt."

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