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PERNAYOR'S FORTRESS OF SOLMUDE?
Duels With Polica Pfaza War Room;
Taxpayars Foot $1,5 Mllon Rent!
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taid Denise Collins, a spokesman for che
city's Department of Administrative Ser-
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projects: Yes, there's a private place for the
Mayor to sleep and shower, but it's in a
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thai critics imagined last spring.
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ence room, the Mayor can run the entire
city, communicating with the outside wartd
vis bugproof telephones.
: The command center takes up a sprawi-
yj° ing 46,000 square feet in a building just
north of the World Trade Center towers
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NYC-WTC_000173905Source: NYC Law Department, mirrored locally
Letter requesting budget approval for construction work on the 23rd and partial 7th floors of 7 World Trade Center for the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management.