Because I walked in the news and wanted to check a few things (the trajectory of the flight, names of streets, neighborhood), I went back to pass few days in New York. Of course, all are good reasons to take refuge in this city where I feel, since the first day home. But it is equally true that news travels well: the pieces are being put in place, and if there's work to do, characters to develop, new to complete, the project is more visible.
Another project taking shape, or rather, lots of land. Now we can see the imprint of the towers disappeared, then advanced by the construction of the memorial, even if it is more difficult to locate the museum in many geometric shapes present on the site. The memorial will consist of two square pools, corresponding to the footprint of the towers, surrounded by trees and benches. Part of the museum will be located underground, while the other, above the ground, will complete the site development. Tower 1, Freedom Tower, for intimate, leisurely sort of land. I suspect to be somewhere around the 4th or 5th floor. Officials are trying to rename a manner a little less ... symbolic, to avoid the "malaise" in its future tenants. Several New Yorkers resist the name change, after all, why: it is indeed a tower originally named Freedom Tower, called this way for years, and whose height is extremely symbolic, will be from 1776 feet (the year of independence). The reversal is surprising.
work all around the site, also advance. The workers are still to deconstruct the building in the Banker's Trust, slowly, floor by floor. In fact, one could almost think that the two, the construction of Tower 1 and the deconstruction of Banker's Trust, will be completed at the same time as they take time to happen. Since my last visit in July, it seemed that this famous Bank had lost only a few floors, while the progress of the tower, they were far more visible. But after all, it took so long to begin to deconstruct this building (only 2 years to start decontamination, if I'm not mistaken) that the slow pace can not possibly do anything but continue to be determined.
My first two trips to New York, I had wondered about the passage of time: between the town itself and its Ground Zero, big space still empty, it seemed to be a gap. And this time, I saw something that told me that perhaps the time has actually changed something. And it's not because of the progress. No, what I saw in New York this time it goes virtually unnoticed, but it is precisely this, that trivial character, which shows the evolution. Remember, the films were modified or dropped altogether, because their subject was too close to events. Generics of television shows have been "cleaned" the towers removed images (Friends, Sex and the City). Certain words, certain themes have long been banned, political correctness jostling with respect to the families of victims and survivors. It is still in New York and the United States some gray areas when it comes to attacks, and the delicacy or prudence seem even more updates in New York where some of my questions, despite their caution, were received with obvious discomfort.
Yet as I watched the Winter Garden from the crane on the site of the World Trade Center, my gaze was attracted by a banner, apparently completely banal.
What does this close? She says, simply, that time has passed. What if, for a long time, it was impossible for many Americans to consider the fate of human beings falling from the towers (they jumped voluntarily? Were they pushed? Was it a choice or a necessity which made them jump into the void?), sensitivity semantic crumbling, eroding. The words echo a little of their meaning, constantly refer to the gaping space.
More than the gradual shaping of the site, the progress of the construction of Tower 1, that is, the simple banner business, who told me that 8 years later New York tames the event.
