Rebuilding Lower Manhattan: Residents Oppose Tunnel

Residents of Battery Park oppose a West Street tunnel fearing that it will isolate the neighborhood.

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September 29, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The nascent Coalition to Save West Street has raised a discomfiting specter for rebuilding officials: a fight over what could be a centerpiece of the redevelopment of long-blighted areas south of the World Trade Center site... Many rebuilding officials, including some at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and at some of the architecture and urban planning firms hired to work on the proposal, say they have not heard much opposition to the West Street tunnel."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Downtown, a Debate Over Burying West Street

Saturday, September 28, 2002 in The New York Times

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