{"id":1578,"date":"2006-09-19T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/with_landlords_like_this_who_needs_enemies.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:46:36","slug":"with_landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/with_landlords.html","title":{"rendered":"With Landlords Like This, Who Needs Enemies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’ll obviously have no problem at all leasing all that space<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The head of the Port Authority said he would rather quit than ask his staffers to work in the Freedom Tower — a stance that landed him in hot water yesterday with Mayor Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

“Twice these [PA employees] were the subject of that attack, and I am not going to ask them to move into that building,” PA Chairman Anthony Coscia told The Record of Hackensack, N.J., in yesterday’s editions. “I’ll resign, but I won’t ask them to move into that building.”<\/p>\n

Coscia, whose agency was based at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing and lost 84 employees on 9\/11, conceded publicly in June that his staffers were skittish about returning to Ground Zero.<\/p>\n

Although he’s since pressed on with the PA’s commitment to lease some 600,000 square feet in Tower 4, a smaller, 61-story building planned at the Trade Center site, his Freedom Tower statements to The Record were notable for their candor — which Bloomberg didn’t appreciate.<\/p>\n

The mayor said Coscia’s stance “doesn’t help” the effort to lure tenants to the iconic 1,776-foot skyscraper.<\/p>\n

“I don’t happen to agree with him,” Bloomberg added. “And I think it is as safe a building as you could possibly ever, ever live in, work in.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They’ll obviously have no problem at all leasing all that space: The head of the Port Authority said he would rather quit than ask his staffers to work in the Freedom Tower — a stance that landed him in hot water yesterday with Mayor Bloomberg. “Twice these [PA employees] were the subject of that attack, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}