nypost editoral, my thoughts on WTC and the Mayor, get NYU & C.U. to build there and it was have been built.

Where is City Hall? editoral in nypost

re: 2 city firefighters as far as I am concerned they died because of 9-11 and should be added to the 9-11 memorial. I remember Bobby who was amazingly fit and in so intelligent, compassionate and funny. He loved movies and he loved being a firefighter. He gave me an FDNY American Flag pin and it is too painful to have. I had made it in to a necklace and it is now downtown with the 9-11 Museum.

If NYU had wanted the "Deutsche Bank toxic waste dump death trap" for an NYU dorm the site would have been cleaned up, torn down and built at world record setting speed like NYU's tear down of St. Ann's from 1847. The community is still waiting for the USPS who owned the air rights over the historic site to notify the State of New York (this should have been done under Pataki) so the State of NY could than examine if it is safe for the community and examine environmental issues but the USPS continues to arrogantly flaunt and abuse their Federal Status. The mayor and his right hand city planner aided and abetted this speed build and tear down rather than a SLOW DOWN and make their good friends John Sexton -- NYU do the right thing along with the USPS -- put the community's safety and best interest before the mega speed greed tear down of a historic building for yet another NYU mega dorm.


You want results downtown -- ask NYU to put their campus there and the site would be built. They are the number one real estate magnate here in NYC and use their not for profit status and powerful connections to get the job done.

The mayor closed our historic firehouses, living memorials to 9-11, hoping like Cardinal Egan selling off the churches -- like a bake sale hoping to cash in. The tsunami of community crushing development means population up but the only concern is to make the developers rich at any cost and post 9-11 do the math on death toll, injuries and massive displacement from people and small businesses that can't recoop after water main breaks, crane falls, etc.

I don't understand how City Council gave themselves a raise or at any point you could say the city budget was in the black when it is all red RED WARNING LIGHTS -- from constructions accidents, infrastructure breaks to the roads are in such bad condition, the fire hydrants are missing caps or are used as garbage cans, so many problems with educating kids, violence on the streets, homelessness....


City Hall has a myopic view on stimulating the economy and at the expense and safety of the people of New York with subtle push outs to gross abuse of eminent domain by Columbia U. NYU doesn't need to abuse eminent domain to get the job done.


I have throat burn and I think it is from 9-11. I remember they did not implement cleaning vehicles leaving the site and the smell in the death dust, the smell of death and destruction.

I just never imagined this "new hideous New York" with firehouses closed, I renamed gentrification supersification and the price of living here is going up to pay for the infrastructure expansion for the mega dorms, sky piercing luxury hotels and condos - another push out. We have the largest police force in the USA so giving them a raise seems impossible but they deserve having had to be there for to terror attacks and more complicated challenges post 9-11.


The mayor along with power broker John Whitehead who thankfully stepped down refused to give the largest loss of rescue workers in the city and our nation's history the simple honor due -- their name, rank and dept. on a separate sign all these years. Globally people saw our fire police and ems run in to buildings in record number but there is no where to stand on the seemingly unending fence to honor what we all witness either in person or on tv the internet over and over again because mayor mike doens't want to make them special. A starvation economy except for powerful friends like NYU.

You want the WTC built in record speed get NYU and Columbia (no. 3 real estate magnate not for profit) to build their campuses there. Their cold blooded ruthlessness will move heaven and earth and entire communities to get the job down and at record speed.



With grief and anger,
Suzannah B. Troy

I added a poem that should be in itunes soon "Buy Town, Stuy town, affordable housing an oxymoron" -- it is on my mac website that talks about all of the above