It has been a record-breaking season for snow in New York City, reports show that January 2011 replaces an 86 year-old-record with snowfall amounts registering at 36 inches cumulatively there seems to be no end to winter; however, with the student travel season upon us spring is in the air.
Presidents’ Day week brought a group of young travelers to the Big Apple and this marks the beginning of routine trips to the Statue of Liberty as well as to the financial district. Spring Break is around the corner and followed by Easter more and more kids flock to the construction site. Still referring to the area as Ground Zero these kids were no more than 4 years old when the towers fell. Finally ten years later there seems to be visible progress as the structure is bursting from the soil and reaching to the sky.
Along with the first group of the season even I was amazed at what I saw, I stood there and I tried to count, well guess, the number of floors. I guessed over 45 floors and when I got home after finishing the tour I looked up more solid information:
- Steel installation has reached the 58th floor.
- Concrete floor slabs are cast to the 50th floor outside the core area.
- Steel erection is in progress between floors 56 and 58.
- Perimeter columns extend approximately 693 feet above grade.
- Aluminum and glass curtain wall panels have been erected to the 25th floor at all elevations and has begun to progress to the 26th floor.
Almost halfway there reaching 693 feet to date the network of steel beams and safety netting this structure is still shadowed by surrounding buildings, buildings that will be dwarfed when the tower reaches the tip of its spire at 1,776 feet and a total of 105 floors. The void in the heart and soul of New York is alive again with new growth.
The memory of the two sentries that once stood watch over the New York harbor, the twin towers; they are never forgotten and the progress at the financial center is a welcomed site to behold.
Presidents’ Day week brought a group of young travelers to the Big Apple and this marks the beginning of routine trips to the Statue of Liberty as well as to the financial district. Spring Break is around the corner and followed by Easter more and more kids flock to the construction site. Still referring to the area as Ground Zero these kids were no more than 4 years old when the towers fell. Finally ten years later there seems to be visible progress as the structure is bursting from the soil and reaching to the sky.
Along with the first group of the season even I was amazed at what I saw, I stood there and I tried to count, well guess, the number of floors. I guessed over 45 floors and when I got home after finishing the tour I looked up more solid information:
- Steel installation has reached the 58th floor.
- Concrete floor slabs are cast to the 50th floor outside the core area.
- Steel erection is in progress between floors 56 and 58.
- Perimeter columns extend approximately 693 feet above grade.
- Aluminum and glass curtain wall panels have been erected to the 25th floor at all elevations and has begun to progress to the 26th floor.
Almost halfway there reaching 693 feet to date the network of steel beams and safety netting this structure is still shadowed by surrounding buildings, buildings that will be dwarfed when the tower reaches the tip of its spire at 1,776 feet and a total of 105 floors. The void in the heart and soul of New York is alive again with new growth.
The memory of the two sentries that once stood watch over the New York harbor, the twin towers; they are never forgotten and the progress at the financial center is a welcomed site to behold.
