NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS

[upNaway]

whats with the trench there digging at front of 1wtc ?

[Zensteeldude]

Probably just utility work. Nothing all that exciting.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Probably just utility work. Nothing all that exciting.

Zen do you know whats going on with tower 4?

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Zen do you know whats going on with tower 4?
Have a look in the thread for it.

A shot recently taken from the PA's webcam:

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[SpeedoPro]

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nice I wanna to go here.

looks like there is a stairwell in every corner. am i looking at this right? that would be much safer than the WTC towers. doesn't look like there are additional stairwells in the core.

[JSsocal]

Going down the building the staircases are all in the core, but once it gets down to the base, there is a transfer floor, where the stairs all divert to the corners of the tower as shown. If you think about it its almost impossible for the stairs in the corners to go straight up since the tower tapers back there.

[NYguy]

Finally back home, and will get down to the site soon for updates. For now, just enjoying the show...

Juless72 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43977875@N08/4696037362/sizes/l/)

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[OneWorldTradeCenter]

The entire site looks busy now! :worship:

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Some recent shots from obsever.com:

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6789/15baseof1.jpg

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1041/191wtc.jpg

[car2004]

May be it's just me, but the building appears to have lagged over the last month. I do not doubt continued progress unseen, for this building is being constructed with technology unheard of or security measures that may not be seen for quite some time in construction zones. It is something, hope, but something I do not wish for due to longer time constrict, but hey, at least they will not be picking up some Mexican guy off the streets with no experience or logged working hours. Fortunately, (during the 80s) my home was built when the work put in and the materials used mattered. Over 30 years now and never a flood issue, never a electrical issue, or water pressure. Name it, nothing!

Anyway, back to the message I wanted to take out today on the building…
The growth at the Freedom Tower site seems to have lagged over the past month. May be this is just me. I have been hoping with gusto for a big update on the construction site; something new and awe-inspiring to add to the already mystery that surroundings the tower. At this moment, it’s sort of a “chill, man” feeling. “Projected renderings" do little for me since it always looks different when in full picture of reality. On a side note, for all the good that’s happening down there, and I really hate to complain, but I would definitely wait an extra two years (or even three years) for the last 408 feet of the building (1776-1368=408) to be constructed as real space. It would be the grandest of office spaces the world could ever offer. They did this kind of thing in Chicago with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower not two years ago. Here is another way to think about it, just add 225ft to the already 1368ft from the original WTC (I know the building is gone, I mean the number and significant of 1368) to honor the fallen towers original height. This is idea, numbers combine a year of greatness (1776) and a day in which that its people came together as a true nation in a time of need (2001). Doing this completes the void in numbers, and truly brings together two powerful, effects in American history. I wonder if anyone has ever thought about this idea. Being out of graduate school and waiting to get into a PhD program as really given me much time on my hands…but this is a good one;) Nonetheless, considering what happened to Chicago’s Brobdingnagian, beauty, standing at over 2000ft with over 160 floors, I am happy for the Freedom Tower’s height and position. In this time and age where the economy is killing us all, more so is the case for us graduate students!

[brenGT2]

Juless72 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43977875@N08/4696037362/sizes/l/)

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Wow. I still can't get over the number of cranes on this site. It's such an impressive operation, and this picture really gives a good idea of the complexity of the site.

[CoolCzech]

Seems like an odd question to have to ask, but...

Has anyone heard from Daniel Libeskind lately??

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Seems like an odd question to have to ask, but...

Has anyone heard from Daniel Libeskind lately??

He is likely out of the project. He is only a consultant (I read this in a book).

[RockMont]

He is likely out of the project. He is only a consultant (I read this in a book).



Good Riddance!

[westmc9th]

New steel going up thanks greenwich boy

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[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

:previous:

THANK GOD!!!FINALLY!!!

:banana: :banana: :worship: :worship: :worship: :banana: :banana: :upload_71700: :awesome: :dancingbacon :cucumber: :apple: :fireworks

[westmc9th]

I wish it was easier to see it on the earth cam hard to tell if they have put more up

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

It looks damn tall now!

[bobdreamz]

those new steel columns look high enough for a additional 3 floors.

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

They're going to build 2 floors.

[RockMont]

I'd like to think, that the higher it gets, the faster it will go.

[Domamania]

can someone compare the height of the tower with the new steel compare to a finished complete tower 1v2 in a picture form.? PLEASE.

[NYguy]

About another week until a decision is made on who will run the tower...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/new_wtc_war_of_words_QxdYCkfcM0McvbjPX5HSKL?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=
New 1WTC war of words

By STEVE CUOZZO
June 15, 2010

The race to buy a piece of the Port Authority's 1 World Trade Center is getting down and dirty.

Time Warner Center developer Stephen Ross unloaded yesterday on a claim that his Related Cos. -- one of two finalists vying for a stake in 1 WTC -- has foul-smelling ties to Mideast Arab countries.

Related and the Durst Organization are in a horse race to invest $100 million in the $2.6 billion project, a deal that would give the private firm management and leasing control of the iconic, 1,776-foot office tower now under construction. The PA is expected to choose on June 22.

"I'm furious. They're trying to get the victims' families rather than the Port Authority to make the decision," fumed normally even-tempered Ross, who wouldn't say whom he meant by "they're."

"The partners they're talking about don't have an equity interest in our company," Ross said. "We have only two equity partners -- Goldman Sachs and Michael Dell's MSD Capital."

Related's Mideast partners, he said, "are just debtholders. They have a subordinated debt position with no rights.

"They have no seats on our board. There are no covenants that give them a say in anything."

The uproar erupted when Fox News Channel's Peter Johnson Jr. said on-air yesterday morning that Related is "substantially bankrolled by the most powerful Arab corporate interests in the world," and questioned whether it would be an appropriate partner at the site where nearly 3,000 were killed by terrorists on 9/11.

"For anyone who suffered loss, the news may be dizzying," Johnson said.

In fact, Related announced its debt agreements with Mideast funds Mubadala Development, Olayan Group and Kuwait Investment Authority in 2007, when the story was widely reported.

But Ross yesterday seethed over what he clearly regarded as an attempt to manipulate the PA into rejecting Related's bid at Ground Zero.

He noted that Related's only partner in its WTC bid is New York developer David Levinson, who's also a real estate adviser to News Corp., which owns Fox News Channel and The Post.

Ross didn't accuse Durst of alerting the media to Related's Mideast ties. But, "Who might be shopping it around?" Ross said. "Would it be us? Noooo," he laughed.

Ross and Douglas Durst both met with the PA board last Thursday. Asked whether the two shook hands, Ross said he saw Durst leaving, "but I did not shake his hand."

Ross said Related was better qualified for 1 WTC: "Look at our track record versus his," he said. "We've done buildings all over America and the world. Durst has built two buildings [4 Times Square and One Bryant Park]."

[NYguy]

morrongiello (http://www.flickr.com/photos/morrongiello/4703367575/sizes/l/) (June 15)

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[Loslocos]

Some shots from yesterday:

Loslocos
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[uaarkson]

This is still a toddler of a skyscraper, and it's already beautiful.

[Innsertnamehere]

New steel!!!!!!!!!!! (my 101th post!)

[Continental180]

in the first picture by Loslocos, what is all that green stuff?

[uaarkson]

in the first picture by Loslocos, what is all that green stuff?

Rebar for the smaller memorial structures.

[JZeig1]

[QUOTE=Loslocos;4878676]Some shots from yesterday:

Loslocos
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Not to be rude or anything, but I must have missed a post or something. Would someone be so kind as to point me to the thread or the link leading back to the explaination of the what the green foundation work is for???

I looked at the earlier plans and nothing seem to resemble those structures

[JSsocal]

Those structures are obviously for the memorial, and they are the family member's entrance to the memorial, and possibly any other mechanicals associated with the memorial. Anyways you can see the two structures in the bottom of this pic.

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/911_09_10/911_14.jpg

[uaarkson]

For further clarification, I highly doubt that render reflects the final design of these small structures.

[NYCLuver]

June 15th, 2010

I'm back guys! Been a while, but here are some pictures I took today. Gorgeous weather, plus my birthday is on the 17th, so thought these would be a nice present for me and all of you!

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[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

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[nycdagreatest]

Great to see new steel now all we need is for them to start on the curtain wall

[pattali]

For NYCLuver and NYGuy : welcome home and thanks for your posting.

Happy birthday dear NYCLuver !

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Do they install the glass??

[wwmiv]

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/06/14/100614ta_talk_collins

[uaarkson]

People say, ‘This Goldman Sachs building got built in four years. Why is One World Trade Center taking so long?’ Well, one reason is that this is getting built on top of a PATH train, and Goldman Sachs got built on top of a fucking parking lot!

http://welpfolks.net/forum/images/smilies/clap.gif

[RockMont]

Furthermore, it took about that long to reconstruct the "bones" under the ground where the train goes.

[nycdagreatest]

the point beyond which the rest of the stories are easily replicated—and the hope is that, from now on, the building will rise about a floor every ten days.
I thought they were working for one floor/week:(

[Zensteeldude]

The floor a week thing is a myth started on the forums, I have never seen an official, confirmed quote stating that the tower would rise at one floor per week. A floor every 10 days sounds a bit more like reality. Still more than enough to meet the deadline.

[MercurySky]

The progress is fast enough for me. I cannot wait until I can visit in September. I am even more fascinated with the construction of Tower four.

[NYguy]

The floor a week thing is a myth started on the forums, I have never seen an official, confirmed quote stating that the tower would rise at one floor per week.

That quote actually comes from Port Authority officials, who said the tower would rise "about' a floor a week. That means overall, the average would be about that. I guess some people took that to mean literally there will be only one floor to rise every week. But it has been stated multiple times by the Port Authority.

[Domamania]

one quick question.

why on the original tower 1 there were 4 cranes constructing it but on the new tower 1 there are only 2 cranes?

[upNaway]

Its to do with the shape of the core the new 1wtc core is totaly diffrent from the old as u can see in construction photos.

[Gateway395]

one quick question.

why on the original tower 1 there were 4 cranes constructing it but on the new tower 1 there are only 2 cranes?

Todays technology is so far advanced than 40 years ago.

[speedy1979]

Actually the WTC was the first building in the USA to use Kangaroo cranes.

[Domamania]

Actually the WTC was the first building in the USA to use Kangaroo cranes.

which wtc the old one or the new one.

[Gateway395]

Actually the WTC was the first building in the USA to use Kangaroo cranes.

Are you talking about the internal climbing cranes, they were used at the Goldman Sach, The New York Times and 4 WTC sites all in NYC.


http://www.dcmerectors.com/FEDERATED/proj4.html

[JSsocal]

He means the original WTC was the first to use kangaroo cranes.

[kenratboy]

I still don't have a sense of how huge the main columns are on the build, is there a picture of a person next to one (or something similar)?

[Stu]

^What he said, been out of the "loop" (though that's more a Chicago term, huh?).

[NYCLuver]

June 17th, 2010

My Birthday!!!!! :D Sorry the pics are blurry, I just took them quick on my way to party with friends. ;)

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[RockMont]

^What he said, been out of the "loop" (though that's more a Chicago term, huh?).




Sure it is. He could be referring to highway I-610 in Houston Texas.

[NYguy]

JUNE 17, 2010

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[Zensteeldude]

That quote actually comes from Port Authority officials, who said the tower would rise "about' a floor a week. That means overall, the average would be about that. I guess some people took that to mean literally there will be only one floor to rise every week. But it has been stated multiple times by the Port Authority.

I stand corrected.:rolleyes:

There have been several official statments about "a floor a week".
one quick question.

why on the original tower 1 there were 4 cranes constructing it but on the new tower 1 there are only 2 cranes?

The site plan calls for 2 more cranes to be added, we'll have to wait and see if that is actually going to be the case.

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

I stand corrected.:rolleyes:

The site plan calls for 2 more cranes to be added, we'll have to wait and see if that is actually going to be the case.

According to the PA, there will be only two cranes.

[Zensteeldude]

:previous: As I said, I'm taking a wait and see approach on the more tower cranes issue.

On another note, the west side construction elevator tower is being installed as per the site plan. ( notice the white lattice columns in the bottom of the first and last pics NYGuy posted)

PS: The site plan is over 3 years old and I'm sure some things have changed in that time.

[Zensteeldude]

I still don't have a sense of how huge the main columns are on the build, is there a picture of a person next to one (or something similar)?

Thirty seconds in. You'll have to pause it in order to get a good look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKiqbysNX3M

He's sitting on a "normal" column, not a "jumbo" column.

[RobertWalpole]

The new streetscape is really nice!

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/125702065/large.jpg

[AuxTown]

That does look great, kind of I-Am-Legend-esque (minus the zombies of course)

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01425/ford-mustang_1425593i.jpg

[BStyles]

I hope they do another Life After Humans after 1WTC is completed. I know the glass will fall off, but let's see how long the moment frame lasts.

[Domamania]

I hope they do another Life After Humans after 1WTC is completed. I know the glass will fall off, but let's see how long the moment frame lasts.

well still on the subject of tower 1v2, it would last for maybe 300 years at most cause the conqrete has the rebar inside of it and it will expand and despand the conqrete, and once the glass falls it will leave the steel out to the weather. so once the weather and the salty air starts attacking the steel then it would be a matter of time before it will crumble allong with the cement of the inner core.

[J.M.]

well still on the subject of tower 1v2, it would last for maybe 300 years at most cause the conqrete has the rebar inside of it and it will expand and despand the conqrete, and once the glass falls it will leave the steel out to the weather. so once the weather and the salty air starts attacking the steel then it would be a matter of time before it will crumble allong with the cement of the inner core.

Hopeful perspective

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

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[NYguy]

from yesterday

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A year from now, that view will be dramatically different...

[J.M.]

A year from now, that view will be dramatically different...

Would you say it'd be above all of Lower Manhattan, or at least 3 WFC?

[Bucktown718]

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[nycdagreatest]

:previous: amazing shot

[uaarkson]

The colors are unreal!

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Nice shots. It becomes taller and taller!

[Zensteeldude]

Would you say it'd be above all of Lower Manhattan, or at least 3 WFC?

A year from now it'll be the tallest building in Manhattan and only a few months from topping out at 1,368 feet.

[nycdagreatest]

:previous: I highly doubt it will be taller than ESB by next june it will probably be around 950 feet and then top out around late December early January.

[RKOwens44]

1WTC is almost surrounded by 3WFC, the Goldman Sachs Building, and 7WTC. 3WFC is 739 feet tall, the GSB is 740 feet tall, and 7WTC is 741 feet tall. So a major milestone will be reached when the building is 742 feet tall and taller than the three buildings surrounding it. :)

That should happen after another 34 floors (at floor 62). If the building progresses at a floor a week, that would happen around the end of February 2011. (Though, a more realistic estimate is around April/May.)

[JHoward88]

I reitterate something that I believe someone said many, many pages ago: This is the coolest thread on the internet.

I snapped some photos of the WTC back in April 2009 when I briefly visited New York, and it is impressive being able to stay in touch with the progress here. It is ironic that the building itself is so much more glorious than the purposes for which it is built.

Somebody earlier brought up the Life after Humans scenario. On a slightly different note, I can't help wondering how long it will potentially stand WITH proper maintenance. If kept in repair, could this building stand for the next thousand years?

[MadGnome]

Nice shots. It becomes taller and taller!

Uh...Yeah. They stopped building from the top down in the early 90s.

[Innsertnamehere]

Uh...Yeah. They stopped building from the top down in the early 90s.

lol i am wondering the same thing as jhoward88....

[NYguy]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hv0Y-A0oQW2-B88x6cwNS_KSB9HgD9GFN55G0

Subway in the sky atop NY ground zero construction

(AP) – NEW YORK

It may be one of the most exclusive eateries in New York City.

A sandwich shop is serving construction workers at the top of the ground zero scaffolding that will become One World Trade Center — also known as the Freedom Tower.

The Subway restaurant is built out of shipping containers. A hydraulically powered platform helps it rise along with the signature skyscraper.

It means construction workers no longer have to eat up their lunch breaks traveling to street level and back.

Water and supplies are brought up with the help of cranes. Solid trash is composted with the help of sky-high worms.

...John McGowan, a 45-year-old ironworker, had been spending the bulk of his lunch break in transit before the restaurant arrived, he said. Now, he and other workers can sit in their hardhats and fluorescent vests and take in the open-air view on the city from the 26th floor.

Water waste from the restaurant is boiled away with an evaporation system, and solid trash is composted with the help of sky-high worms. Water and supplies are brought up with the help of cranes.

Ryan Sabio, 30, said he's glad for the upward commute to his job making sandwiches, when he gets to hobnob with the people building the much-awaited landmark.

"It's a little trip getting here, most obviously. But it feels good at the end of the day to serve these guys," he said. "I feel like I'm filling in, somewhat, a part of history here."

McGowan, too, says he has personal reasons to be glad to make the trip, wherever he's eating.

"I was here when it came down. I'm here to build it back up. Proud to do it," he said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5ihEDvpWv4VPyV-OwNFlsh85nYHIw?size=l

In this June 18, 2010 photo, workers take a lunch break inside the rising structure of One World Trade Center in New York. A Subway sandwich shop is serving construction workers at the top of the ground zero scaffolding that will become 1 World Trade _ also known as the Freedom Tower. The eatery, built out of shipping containers, is rising along with the signature skyscraper with the help of a hydraulically powered platform.

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Christopher Connolly, center, a cement laborer, counts money with a colleague as they buy lunch at Subway inside the rising structure of One World Trade Center in New York.

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In this June 18, 2010 photo, workers take a lunch break on the rising structure of One World Trade Center in New York.


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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/ross_durst_decision_delayed_at_wtc_N2zv0uMCexh9eFqucus9nM

Ross, Durst decision delayed at 1 WTC

By STEVE CUOZZO
June 21, 2010

The suspense will last awhile longer for Stephen Ross and Douglas Durst.

The Port Authority has put off until at least next month a hotly awaited decision on whether to choose Ross' Related Cos. or the Durst Organization as its partner in the 1,776-foot-tall 1 World Trade Center.

Durst, developer of 1 Bryant Park, and Related, of Time Warner Center fame, are the finalists in what was once a six-way race. The bi-state agency was expected to announce its choice at its monthly board meeting tomorrow -- but now won't do so until its next meeting on July 29, insiders said.

The winning private developer will put up around $100 million for a critical minority stake in the $2.6 billion tower -- including leasing and management control.

Normally, a one-month delay would hardly be noticed at Ground Zero, where everything's years behind schedule. But PA executive director Chris Ward had said he expected to decide this month, and chairman Anthony Coscia mentioned June 22 as the day.

The PA wouldn't say why it was pushing the decision back.

"Both companies have been asked for even more paperwork," one insider said. "They've been trading paper since last February, Douglas and Stephen both met with the top PA leadership -- and still they want more."

A PA insider claimed the June 22 date "was a goal and a hope, but never a deadline."

It wasn't clear whether the delay had anything to do with last week's testy exchange between Ross and Durst over a Fox News Channel story claiming that Related was "substantially bankrolled" by "powerful Arab corporate interests."

[NYguy]

Update from morrongiello (http://www.flickr.com/photos/morrongiello/4722110818/sizes/l/) (June 21)

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[westmc9th]

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update by CULWULLA steel has reached 300 feet

[RKOwens44]

Wait... does anyone know if the Subway atop 1WTC is actually charging the workers for their food? Subway made a big deal about how they were donating a Subway shop to the construction site and all that, but if they're actually charging the workers then they just managed to open a shop in Ground Zero. It's not like the Subway company is actually donating anything to the World Trade Center or anything like that.

[JACKinBeantown]

Well unless those gentlemen are playing liar's poker, I'd say Subway is charging them. Hopefully they're giving them a discount or donating proceeds to the survivors, or making good in some other way. Otherwise it would be pretty reprehensible.

[MadGnome]

Wait... does anyone know if the Subway atop 1WTC is actually charging the workers for their food? Subway made a big deal about how they were donating a Subway shop to the construction site and all that, but if they're actually charging the workers then they just managed to open a shop in Ground Zero. It's not like the Subway company is actually donating anything to the World Trade Center or anything like that.

Subway's not going to pay for that shop in a year by selling $4 sandwiches. It will probably barely meet operational expenses. It will be a money loser. Probably written off as a publicity expense.

[uakoops]

Wait... does anyone know if the Subway atop 1WTC is actually charging the workers for their food? Subway made a big deal about how they were donating a Subway shop to the construction site and all that, but if they're actually charging the workers then they just managed to open a shop in Ground Zero. It's not like the Subway company is actually donating anything to the World Trade Center or anything like that.

They are charging the regular price even though this store costs much more to operate than a regular Subway. The reason they got the contract is that they were the only company willing to eat the loss. I'm sure it's worth it to them in publicity.

[JHoward88]

:previous: Agreed. We've got to realize that unlike a normal Subway shop, absolutely no regular consumers have access to it. Furthermore, lots of those construction workers are eating lunches that they have packed and brought in with them. That means that the number of regular customers is going to be extremely low compared to a shop located in a more traditional location. Even if the real estate in the container is free, the profit margin can't be very appealing.

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

They want to install the first glass during that summer. I hope they're going to do that soon.

[Bucktown718]

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Sprezzatura Images (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonianne/)

[Domamania]

^^^^ looks like the tower 1v2 is now about 40 percent of the height of tower 7. hopefully by december the tower 1v2 will be twice as tall as what it is now.

[Bucktown718]

Here's an interesting video that i found accidentally on youtube today, i suggest you turn the sound all the way down because the song that is playing in this video is just horrible and creepy
yrdOw0Nt1dU

[Draegen]

Here's an interesting video that i found accidentally on youtube today, i suggest you turn the sound all the way down because the song that is playing in this video is just horrible and creepy
yrdOw0Nt1dUOh god people its not a holy shrine lmao :sly:

[eaguir3]

BAHAHAHA!! That video is the funniest thing ever!!

[rich_200]

haha wtf with the music

[NYC4Life]

The video is straight out of the Vatican.

[Krases]

I think I made the video a bit better. (http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DyrdOw0Nt1dU&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D12NMEa6qYnc&start2=0&authorName=Ann+O%27Nymous)

[NYguy]

June 22, 2010

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[Bucktown718]

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~~ zorro ~~ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactus23/)

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[francely57]

Here's an interesting video that i found accidentally on youtube today, i suggest you turn the sound all the way down because the song that is playing in this video is just horrible and creepy
yrdOw0Nt1dU

You should all ask for the Freedom Tower's forgiveness, after complaining for years about the slow progress of the World Trade Center's construction. :yes:

[Innsertnamehere]

i have a feeling that those safety nets are going to be hiding the true form of the tower as its under construction.... the tower is finally seeming to be angling towards the top like it should be, but the safety nets hide it.

[scalziand]

^Once the notches in the corner get bigger as they approach the top, the nets will have to move in also; otherwise they're not doing their job of fall prevention.