DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Rebuilding twin towers is on table By ERIC HERMAN city’s charter would be amended, if neces­ Minoru Yamasaki, said, “The building DMUr NEWS BUSINESS WRITER sary. must be rebuilt. Both towers have to be While rescue and cleanup efforts con­ “We have the lawyers working on the brought back.” tinue, a growing chorus is calling for the details,” Vallone said. “These are not just office buildings. twin towers to be rebuilt. The proposal came after one of the These are icons of America,” Guthard City Council Speaker Peter Vallone World Trade Center’s original designers said. added his endorsement yesterday, propos­ and the developer who controlled the And developer Larry Silverstein, who ing a mayoral commission to examine re­ complex both called for it to be rebuilt. acquired the twin towers from the Port development options. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Authority in July, told The Wall Street “It’s kind of important to set up a legal “Face the Nation” yesterday that “we Journal, “It would be the tragedy of trage­ entity — a commission for the redevelop­ must build something grand” at the dies not to rebuild this part of New York.” ment and reconstruction of the World World Trade Center site. And Mayor Other public officials took a more cau­ Giuliani and Gov. Pataki have said that tious approach toward rebuilding. Port Trade Center — so that we have a focus the towers’ reconstruction should be con­ on what has to be done,” Vallone said. Authority Vice Chairman Charles Garga­ sidered. no cautioned that while, “on the emotion­ Vallone, a candidate for mayor, said the As to whether the twin towers them­ al level, we’d like to say we’re going to re­ group would act like a local development selves should be rebuilt, Vallone said, build,” it was still too early to make that corporation, doling out economic incen­ “Personally, I’d like to see that happen. decision. tives and speeding up building permits But that you’d leave up to the comniis- “It’s very, very difficult to know at this and zoning approval for new construc­ sion.” time what the ground conditions are,” tion. The mayor would head the commis­ Late last week, engineer Henry said Gargano, a former construction exec­ sion and appoint members, he said. The Guthard, the partner of WTC architect utive.

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