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A New Phase Downtown as a Big Tent Is Folded Up


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A New Phase Downtown as a Big Tent Is Folded Up

Since June 2007, a 37-foot-high, saddle-shaped polyester-and-aluminum tent — far more graceful to behold than it sounds — has been the public face of the World Trade Center project. The tent shelters the Church Street staircase at the temporary PATH terminal. This was to close at midnight Friday to permit construction of the permanent transportation hub. The tent will not be discarded. But it will disappear.

 

Its replacement is already in place: a boxy structure on Vesey Street that will serve PATH until 2011. Though it is less exposed to the elements, it is also the most utilitarian of the three temporary PATH entrances that have been built at ground zero since 2003.

 

Full story: nytimes_logo.gif icon_offsite.png - April 11, 2008

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