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THE NEW YORK TIMES

By DAVID W. DUNLAP

«Stairs to Remain Intact in Ground Zero Plan

The Spitzer administration says it has taken steps to finally solve the quandary of the “survivors’ stairway” at ground zero.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s chief of downtown redevelopment, Avi Schick, proposes to keep the stairway whole and intact — but just the seven-foot-wide stairway proper, not the hulking concrete structure around it.

Held together and supported by a specially designed truss, the stairs would be moved out of the way of the planned 2 World Trade Center office tower. Eventually, they would be set into a long flight of steps leading from the visitors’ center at ground zero to the underground World Trade Center memorial museum, which is to open in 2009.
The stairway served as an escape route on 9/11 and is the only aboveground remnant of the original trade center complex still in place. It stands near Vesey Street, on part of the site where Tower 2 is to rise. (...)» IN THE NEW YORK TIMES- 06.08.07

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The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the McCarren Play Center in Brooklyn, the Sunset Play Center and bath house interior in Brooklyn, and the Thomas Jefferson Play Center in East Harlem as New York City landmarks, recognizing them for their exceptional design, decorative details and grand scale. Constructed with federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) fundsat the height of the Great Depression in the summer of 1936, the three pool and recreational complexeswere among 11 that were built across New York City during the administration of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. Collectively, the play centers were quickly recognized as being among the most remarkable publicfacilities ever constructed in the Unite States. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2007