While I think the new WTC will be an aesthetic improvement over the original, I just don't think it'll have that sense of "community" the Twins had. Nor will it have the energy; that fast-paced energetic pulse New York is famous for, the WTC was the embodiment of that energy.
Summer days spent eating lunch in the Tobin Plaza between the towers, watching throngs of goofy tourists; fanny packs, polaroid cameras, outdated clothes and haircuts and all, bending their necks to take in the tall spectacle that lay before them, all while cheesy elevator music is blaring from speakers around the fountain.
It seems so vapid in retrospect, but there will never be anything like it again.
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We spread out and occupy the cracks in the urban streets.
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