Article re: Mayor's command center, August 1999

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document 04108/99_ THU 15:25 EAX 2126458962 ence room, the Mayor can / un the entire city, communicating with the ousside world via bugproof telephones. The command center take's up a sprawi- if ing 46,000 square feet in a building just north of the World Trade Center towers ". Ironically enough, ue site of a tctronst al' ik tackin 1993. Ihe facility is rlieant to coor- en dinate the responses of atleaut 50 city, scate Sand Federal agencies to all sor's of disasters, t except perhaps, those of the w:lectoral vari- iloty. The center is surrounded by a burri- ricane wall—it's made of bullitproof maie- lfial, but nor because officiali are afraid of nyanipers, bur because at 23 sta ies, the facil- Tlty is vulnerable to flying debr is. And here's why they built it in the sky nuther than un- derground: Acoording to an a tministration otticial intimaiely familiar writh the proj- gecl, the brittle water mains dor mtown could iThave endangered an undengr sund facility. ""Had we put it underground und there was a warer main break," the offi ial said, "we would have a multimillion- lollar swit- rming pool." Gerting into the center rer juires a card and a code, and those who er ter will see a series of U-shaped consoles |roken down ino clusters for individual may ralagencies; CONTINUED ON Y KABACK AMBASSADOR 41003 New York:'s Cell Phone Holdouts Embrace Gizmo They Once Hated 3X ALEXANDRA JAI:OB8 You know that jerk who's i abbing away chased) Totorola "Now, I'm still annoyed. on a cell phane? Now, it seeins, more and Bur the i I'm like 'Oh, wait, I'm one of more, that jerk is you. them." • For years, a greatnumber iif New York- So, tio, is East Village resident Gary 'ers have disdained cellular Greenberg, 35, a writer *phones. Those gizmos and stand-up comic. "It seemed a litle, well, racky, used to be every time 1 •more suired 1o the car cul- saw somebody with a cell Poure of wide-open Los An- phone, I thought they ,geles than to the pedestran were obnoxious," he said. 'confines of Manhattan. "Well, right now I'm But lately, even the last standing in line in the ew holdouts are giving up middle of La Guardia, their resistance. They and I'm talking into thin don't feel great about it, air, and, yes. there is but they'te purchasing cell something a little obnox- "phones of their. own, jous aboutit." ,bringing us all closer to Bur Mi. Greenberg has that day, maybe 20 years ceased to care. Jusi like hence, when a telephode Aliza Rabinoff, a 27-year. that actually plugs into the OPOIILOS old publicisi who resisted "wall is just another antique citriosity. long aftir others in hier field went cellular. "Iused to curse at people in the sirech" She fin illy cracked last Deçember. "T'l said Wess Village native Keiny Wachtel, look in: tore windows and see myself talk- 27, a filmoditor, speaking over zis newly pur- CONTINUED ON 26 INSIDI 5 Joe Conason: More allej ations about Ken Starr's office surface dur ing the Susan MacDougal trial. APR 08 '99 15:42 of the Ir remet I.P.O. cash frenzy. 28,29,; 12 Book reviews: Two books chal- lanna lir muthnlnoies surroundino Cier- NYC-WTC_000173906 isii. HOW !I,BARNED TO SȚOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BUNKER: COl ARD& R.M NBC's Vetting of Juanita Br Clinton's Accuser Discusses Agonizing Weeks as Eight NBC1 Isehind Serb Bombs Her Story Rumbles President Dodet BY PHILIP WEISTAVA Sittin i in her bedroom before the Jan. 20 ir- terview on NBC with Lisa Myers, Juanica Broadd ick could not believe that she was ac- wually g sing to walk down the halwayinto the livir g room and go through with it, that she, a very privace and dignified woman. woulds iy the word rape to a camera "To this day.Idc n'eknow how I did it,"she told me. In the livin groom, her son. Kevin Hickey, had a differen:concem. "Whin they were setting up, I said, What's the process aiter this interview is fin- ished? Ilow will you go about getting it on the air?' Sbour •.Lisa said she would have to speak io her wition.h higher-ups.Isaid, Waita minule —what are .! M) the chances that this won'trun? My stepfaither ic:od.Mr. was standing there, And she said, 'None' I: Natior said, 'O.K.""Mr. Hickey paused "And, you Broad know, itran. Biut how could she sit there and exWear! tell us thar?" .2240 Gralspir ..The aocusation by a mauure business- dia w: woman that she had been raped by Bill Clin- Washi .. loD in 1978, when he was Arkansas' Attor. rybeci ney Ceneral, aired on NBC on Feb. 2A, op. dent. posite the Graumy Awards. The 35-day interval berwern tape and air is now one of the legerds of the impeachment process. Why dich't the American public get eo hear Mis. Broecktick before the Senate vored to acquir MI. Clineon on Feb. 12? "This came oux at a time when it had the Sala FAs absolute smaliest impact it could have," said Steve Friedman, a lawyer friend (whio fa- vorodcensure) said to me at lunch. "The thing was finally ovir. Everybody was sick of il, and the Republicans looked like a bunch of •Muse: scoundrels when they said, You have to un- «' bition dersiand what we're seeing and can't talk " Fialisy, Tina Browa's Innovation? Chintzing the Writers CR Agents Hate Restrictive Contraci From Editor's Miramax Venture. іностол Averet Vkthemi towe 1,960. nval- BY CARL SWANSON lOUS From the beginning, Talk Media has been a hotbed of synergistic millennialism At least publiciy. Last summer, editor Tina In Brown bubbled forth about hov the mag thc azine was going to be the irde "cultural search enginer that drove the whole multi media enterprisebooks to movies to TV shows. Now there is a book división headed by Jonashan Burham Anda TУc velopment person: Gabé Doppeli, foon ly editor of Mademoiselle and VHI they fnally found a corporate Hearst Magazines. Bur since the dealyas announced, in February, Talk Media fas been operating pretty much like... well, 10 jusia magazine. And whatremains of that "abosical in hasn 2126458962 PAGE.03