Posted by MikeU on September 29, 2001 at 18:47:53:New York Post:
MAYOR'S NEW AND DIFFERENT VISION OF WTC
By DAVID SEIFMAN, ZACH HABERMAN and RITA DELFINER
September 29, 2001 -- Mayor Giuliani yesterday for the first time offered his own vision of how lower Manhattan should be rebuilt - and said he opposes putting up carbon copies of the 110-story Twin Towers.
"I'm not, for one, in favor of rebuilding the towers the way they were. I don't think that's a good idea," he said on Don Imus' morning radio show without elaborating.
Giuliani said "a lot of other people have to be heard" and believes he and the governor should put together a commission "that will take ideas from many people and then come up with proposals that we can agree on."
"But if you're asking me my singular view, I don't think the two towers as they existed before should be put up in that manner."The mayor said there must be a "very large" and "inspirational" memorial at the site to the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
"We now have to accept the fact that this is going to be the burial ground for many, many people," he said.
Giuliani said that "around that" memorial he'd like to see "offices, residential areas, business try to re-create a lot of the square footage that you lost."
"We lost about 25 million square feet of space. So assume you can recapture 12 to 15 [million] of that right in that area."
He said the city can pick up the remaining 10 million either around that area or "someplace else."At ground zero, Giuliani said the monumental cleanup at the disaster site could take "anywhere from nine months to one year."
He said that was due to the "complexity they are going to face in removing structures that have been driven into the ground" once the surface rubble is removed.
Crews at the site began assembling a giant crane with a basketball court-sized base that can lift weights of up to 1,000 tons.
Workers continued to remove thousands of body parts and tissue samples for identification.The mayor said the official number of missing remained at 5,960. The toll of confirmed dead yesterday was 306.
Meanwhile, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton estimated that the cost of cleanup is about $100 million a week.
Senate aides pegged the total cleaning tab at $7 billion.
City and federal officials believe the total recovery bill could soar to about $39 billion - including about $8.2 billion for rebuilding the Trade Center, aides said.
But those numbers keep shifting and no decision has been made on whether to rebuild, the aides said.In Manhattan, the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, said it estimates that 108,500 jobs will be lost in the city within one month of the Sept. 11 catastrophe.
The attack "severely affected almost every sector of New York City's economy," said Brian McLaughlin, the council's president."From high-wage to low-wage workers, thousands upon thousands of people were, and continue to be, touched by the disaster," he said.
The industries that will suffer the most job losses are securities, retail trade and restaurants, the council's projections say.
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