Thanks, no problem. The most recent thing going on is the topping out of Tower 4. Here is an interactive photo -
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/06/25/4-world-trade-center-reaches-milestone/tab/interactive/ Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2012
360 View: Smaller WTC Tower Reaches Top
By Amelia Harris
The final steel beam was lifted to the top of 4 World Trade Center during a ceremony Monday attended by hundreds of workers.
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The 4 World Trade Center tower was a step closer to completion Monday when the final steel beam was placed atop the Lower Manhattan building.
Developer Larry A. Silverstein and more than 1,000 construction workers participated in a “Topping Out Ceremony” to mark the milestone.
An American flag was unfurled as the beam was lifted by crane 977 feet in the air and set in place as onlookers below cheered and whistled.
Larry Miller was among a group of the workers who signed the beam before it was hoisted up.
“It felt good [signing the beam], a lot of satisfaction, a lot of pride rebuilding what was destroyed,” Miller, a plumber from Marlboro, NJ., said.
“We top out every job and have a little something but this one is special.”
The building will be the first tower completed on the 16-acre World Trader Center site when it opens in Fall 2013. “When we open the doors, it will not just be for our tenants, but for all New Yorkers,” Silverstein told the packed event before the beam was lifted.
He described how Lower Manhattan had survived tough times to become a thriving residential and commercial community “that is the envy of the world.” Downtown, he said, was “fast becoming the creative capital of New York City.”
The biggest thanks was reserved for “the people who built this place with their own hands.” “You work every day, rain or shine, to reclaim the skyline, to give New Yorkers back the city that the terrorists tried to take away,” Silverstein said.
The 72-story building will house mainly commercial offices, including the Port Authority’s new headquarters, which will take up a quarter of the 2.3 million square feet available for rent.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney also attended the ceremony. “Despite the weather, today the sun is shining on downtown Manhattan,” Silver said.
The long time local resident who witnessed the 9/11 attacks from his home and endured the aftermath said it was “hard to adequately put into words just how wonderful it is to see this magnificent building coming to completion.”
For such a building to stand on the site where such “shocking ugliness and terrible pain” occurred was on one hand breathtaking and inspiring and on the other symbolic of the city’s can-do, never surrender spirit, he said.
Some, like Anthony Torres, a spotter at Benson Industries, were already looking even further ahead.
“I hope to be down here for this one too,” he said, pointing to Tower 3.
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