I think they should keep it. Turn it into an aquarium. Fill it with fish. Do something special — not just another building.
Al the Mechanic commenting at Ground Zero on the glacial pothole characterized by "plummeting holes, steep cliffsides and soft billows of steel-gray bedrock, punctuated by thousands of beach-smooth cobblestones in a muted rainbow of reds and purples and greens" that underlies the construction site where the former Twin Towers stood. As reported in At Ground Zero, Scenes from the Ice Age in this morning's New York Times.
The "Grand Canyon of Lower Manhattan" will be obliterated by the construction of Tower 4 of the new World Trade Tower.
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