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...Jersey, the agency that built the Trade Center and still owns the site. The towers, with their 10 million sq. ft. of office space, were a crucial source of P.A. rental income that it badly needs to get flowing again. Then there are the well-organized residents of lower Manhattan, people who want their neighborhood brought back to life, but not just any which way. Plus there's Larry Silverstein, the New York City developer who was leasing the towers from the P.A. for 99 years. Silverstein is developing plans for the site...
...players in this uneasy game are not at war yet; they are prepared to imagine a rough consensus. The job of mediating among them has fallen largely to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a panel formed by Pataki to oversee rebuilding issues, including a design for the memorial. To head the group he chose John Whitehead, a former cochairman of the Goldman Sachs investment firm, who understands that whatever emerges at the site must not only satisfy the owners, the leaseholders, the locals and the families. It must also be superb. In what is now one of the most profound...
...phalanx of city-planning types and regional thinkers has looked through that hole and seen an opportunity. Right away they started dusting off long-cherished schemes, some of which may very well come true. It's likely that any final plan will envision a major new terminal linking the Manhattan subways with suburban commuter rail systems. It will also probably re-establish several city streets that were covered over by the much despised "superblock" of the Trade Center plaza...
...towers were symbols of "the midcentury arrogance of architects," says architect David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "What they did to lower Manhattan was an act of vandalism just as complete as Sept. 11." Childs, a well-regarded figure in the architectural world, has been commissioned by Larry Silverstein, the developer, to draw up proposals for the Trade Center site. The Port Authority and L.M.D.C., of course, are shopping for their own design team. How their eventual plans will be reconciled with Silverstein's remains to be seen. But for now the project has Childs thinking big. Granting that very...
...Burlesque does revolve around the baring of flesh, which makes for delicious ironies in places like Manhattan, where stripping is more strictly regulated than theater. Local legislation forced Show World, a fort-size Times Square adult entertainment palace, to devote at least 60% of its space to nonlewd entertainment, and the venue posted a NO LIVE GIRLS sign outside the building. But the Va Va Voom Room held court on one of its floors for six months in 2000. "We were probably more nude than the nude shows they had there," says Valentine. "There were live girls...