New Freedom Tower to Surpass Empire State Building Today - Neatorama

The new tower at the World Trade Center site is scheduled to become the tallest building in New York City today.

As long as the weather cooperates, the tower will surpass the 1,250-foot Empire State Building at 2 p.m. on its way to a final height of 1,776 feet.

“It’s wonderful,” Mayor Bloomberg said Sunday.

“It’s taken a long time. This is probably the most complex construction site in any place ever. I think what we’ve shown is that democracy works.”

Once completed, the Ground Zero skyscraper, often called the Freedom Tower, will have 104 floors, including 71 office floors with 3 million square feet of space.

The official address of the Freedom Tower is One World Trade Center. It is scheduled to open late in 2013 or possibly early 2014. Link -via Gizmodo

(Image credit: Craig Warga/New York Daily News)

Nothing epitomizes freedom better than making the lower 200 feet of the tower a bomb-proof concrete bunker.

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Will they be serving Freedom Fries in the Freedom Cafeteria?

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Adding the antenna to the height of the tower is cheating. The record should be decided by the altitude of the top occupied floor.

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@Bearfoot: What does that have to do with construction of a building? The Chinese built entire cities while the democratic process was still trying to agree on what to do with the Ground Zero site.

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@damon> Armed thugs aren't knocking on your door and about to "ask" you questions via usage of a rubber hose.

so it works to a degree.

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Oh really, "Democracy works"? What about 9/11?

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I love democracy, but you have to admit, in a authoritarian regime it would have been built in half the time.

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Where have I been that I missed they had actually started construction??? I must be the most oblivious person in the world...

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I don't know if the mayor realizes, but in the eyes of the rest of the world, attributing a construction project to the success of your political structure is one of the most blatant and overused lines of bulls*** in history. Thanks for making us look stupid, again.

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If you don't like it go back to Iran, hippie!

(plays Lee Greenwood on kazoo)

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“ This is probably the most complex construction site in any place ever. I think what we’ve shown is that democracy works.”

LOLWUT??? Engineering works.
Democracy? Democracy does not build towers. It doesn't even automatically equal freedom. Democracy is simply 'mob or majority rule'.
What a bunch of nationalistic tripe.

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