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Originally Posted by NYguy
Its not about egos in New York, though they could have gone higher. Freedom Tower's height of 1,776 ft was born not out of the need to be tallest, but on marking a specific year.
But its not as if New York needs to make any global announcements to the world.
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On the last part, right, we don't need to make any announcements like that anymore and I said that already. But the Freedom Tower did NOT need to be 1776.. that's purely
symbolism for the sake of symbolism like I sarcastically referred to, especially when the structure that's reaching the height is another freaking spire that could be built to any height, not just 1776. And I would also say Pataki's ego was a big enough factor in the equation to make my comment stand intact.