Slate on the shopping complex that ate the World Trade Center memorial:
“What is [the site] going to say to a 2-year-old that is going to be 7 five years from now? What are we going to say — ‘Your Daddy died right where the Starbucks is?’ ”
To be fair, though, Daddy did die where the Starbucks is — metaphorically, if not literally. The WTC victims were killed in the middle of the city, in the middle of life, in the middle of carrying out mundane tasks like ordering lattes. Unlike most memorials, the one at Ground Zero will pay tribute to people who died right there on the spot. To entirely strip the place of offices, shops, and other hallmarks of urban life would risk abstracting the slaughter.
Here’s a slideshow of the 6 options. I like #5.
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