Lower Manhattan rebuilding blueprint, Oct 2001

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•s DAO NEWS STlfF WRITER CHANGE^ATi New plans for Ground Zero start with years of up­ itadBCMtar Osssi aamofWat STREET. LEVEL grading mass transit and roads — before the con­ IMeCtotw struction of buildings at the site. A rough blueprint for the crip­ pled area — unveiled yesterday AN EDITORIALS by the Lower Manhattan Devel­ Creating ^^5 i-> E35S-C opment Corp. — envisions a ma­ jor transit hub with more hous- Blueprints show crt/s OR the track back a perma­ mg and retail space than before the S^L 11 attacks on the PAGE 32 nent memorial on the World Trade World Traue Center. Other high­ Center site, possibly lights of the plan include: one project. “The governor has including a museum of free­ ■ Building a memorial on the made it clear to all of us that he site Tth a museum of freedom wants to have a plan for the me­ dom and remembrance. and remembrance. morial park and the memorial /to Restoring the street grid to ■ Restoring streets eliminated this year,” said Charles Gargano, integrate the fonner Trade in the area 35 years ago chairman of the Empire State Center site with the rest of ■ Burying the southern end of Development Corp. downtown. This may Include the West Side Highway. While Garvin lauded the un- extending Greenwich St from Increasing But aboveground construction precedented level of coopera- Barclay to Liberty Sts., extend­ housing and would not begin until at least tion among government agen- ing Fulton SL from river to river retail use In lower 2004, officials said. des, others hinied at conflict and extending Morris St. and Manhattan, Including an They made dear yesterday ahead. the waterfront to create a that the transit hub A senior official of Exchange Place over the Battery upscale regional mall. continuous park wrapping needs to be created “TTie plait ItaS the Pott Authority, Tunnel entrance ramp. /to Creating space for cultural around lower Manhattan before major rebuild- which owns the /to Turning West St into a tun- and civic organizations, from the Brooklyn Bridge to ing to replace the to fit together Trade Center site, ar- WF nel for all or part of its including a new home for Battery Park City. Trade Center com- ® gued privately that length from Chambers St to the New York City Opera and a plex can move for- 111(0 g IlgsaW rnany streets should the Battery Park underpass. This downtown branch of toe ward. be limited to pedes- would reconnect Battery Park City Guggenheim Museum. “Redevelopment is pUZZlO,” trians because vehi- to the rest of lower Manhattan /to Linking new and existing an extremely compli- ___ L___________ des would interfere and create a 260-fdot-wide swath open space on Statloi cated matter,” corpo- muM whitehead with the millions of of land for other development ration chairman John whitehead touri.ts expected at Os Whitehead said. “In the end, toe toe memorial each year. “You’re plan has to fit together like a jig- going to have a tremendous ^CHANGES»^ saw puzzle.” amount of pedestrians < jming UNDERGROUND One exception will be 7 World by car, by train, by fe’.y who Trade Center. hev t nothing to do wit' toe peo- cis.. Reconstructlon could begin in pie i .'io work] her* ’ toe offi- E V 17 SUaWATS babtaomiK toe fall because owner Larry Sil- cial said. verstein h^^agreed to major con- Mayor names 4 tO panel cicrix ■ iCwattoQofbm, sxxisjdxs jssa assess Lti l; truck and Bwi ■SKMUffiSiy’a!: sd 5inJ' a'vtr ’rfy-

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