Reply With QuoteAmen,
Also, one of my all time favorite films "Lost in translation".
http://cuboidal.org/lost-in-translation/
It's all good. More to come this week once the skies clear a bit.
Amen,
Also, one of my all time favorite films "Lost in translation".
http://cuboidal.org/lost-in-translation/
Proud owner of a BFM T-shirt. Only Chive.com fans will know that one.Originally Posted by infoshare
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Wow... Just Wow!Gothamist
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This Evening
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I don't think crane operators are qualified to harness lightning.Gothamist
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I love how those three towers line up. Happy accident?
My weekly WTC pix dump...
From Manhattan Bridge
DSCN5777 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
From Exchange Place - Jersey City
DSCN5823 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
DSCN5827 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
DSCN5862 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
DSCN5864 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
From Downtown Newark
DSCN5889 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
DSCN5903 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
DSCN5908 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
#4^ is right by my office. I'm lucky to be able to have lunch just down on the pier in JC looking across the river (yes going up the tower when I want is awesome also but in a different way). People pay a fortune to fly to NYC and yet never make it over to see such views.
Similarly, the Staten Island ferry is one of the 7 free wonders of the world and I rarely see it in a guide book.
Is that the new anit aircraft defense system?Gothamist
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This thing is looking very good in person. The diagonals make a good forced perspective illusion.
Bloomberg
June 28, 2012
GSA Poised to Become Third Tenant of 1 World Trade Center
By David M. Levitt and Martin Z. Braun
The Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey approved a plan for the U.S. General Services Administration to take five floors at 1 World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, making it the third tenant at the skyscraper.
The authority’s commissioners authorized the agency to agree to a 20-year lease with the GSA, with as many as four 15- year renewal options, according to a resolution adopted today. Total rent paid over the first 20 years would be $351.4 million.
“We made what we think is a very attractive deal,” Pat Foye, the Port Authority’s executive director, said after the agency’s board meeting.
A final agreement still needs to be signed. The 104-story tower would be 55 percent leased with the deal, agency officials said at today’s meeting. The 1,776-foot (541-meter) skyscraper, a centerpiece of the World Trade Center redevelopment, is scheduled to be completed by 2014.
The building’s main tenant is Conde Nast Publications Inc., which agreed last year to move its headquarters there from midtown Manhattan. Beijing Vantone Real Estate Co. (600246), a Chinese property firm, also has rented space. The Durst Organization, developers of 1 Bryant Park in Midtown, is overseeing leasing on behalf of the Port Authority as its partner in the project.
The GSA negotiates leases on behalf of federal agencies. It would take about 270,104 square feet (25,093 square meters) at the new skyscraper, according to the resolution. The U.S. Customs House was among the trade center’s original tenants, fully occupying the 750,000-square-foot 6 World Trade Center, one of the buildings destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001.
The federal agency waived its right to have 6 World Trade Center rebuilt in return for space in the new 1 World Trade Center, the authority said.
The GSA is “committed to finalizing the terms of our lease for space at 1 World Trade Center,” said Dan Cruz, the federal agency’s deputy press secretary, in an e-mail. “We continue to work closely with the Port Authority and the Durst Organization to negotiate a lease that will result in the best value for taxpayers, the federal government and the city of New York.”
The Port Authority has a number of potential tenants in the pipeline and rents have been escalating, Foye said.
“It’s indicative of the commercial success and progress that’s been made in leasing there,” he said.
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Pat Foye is certainly getting things moving.
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