Actually, would it matter what intersection someone got?  It could become
another type of freedom trail - only Boston's was for another centery.
Perhaps they could be placed based on some connection to the person named.
One could walk through the boroughs looking for plaques to get a better idea
of who these people were.

- Pam

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Walter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:22 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Thinking about monuments....


Even before the "designs" (which look like a handful of broken weeds to me)
were published, I thought that the WTC ought to be rebuilt exactly as it
was.  I never particularly liked them as buildings, but they sure as hell
had a presence, and they didn't look like the contents of the junk drawer in
everybody's kitchen.

Chrif's plaque on every corner sounded good inititally, except invariably
some people are going to get "better" intersections than others (who gets
42nd and 5th, and who gets 142nd and 5th?), and the chances that any of the
intersections had anything to do with the person memorialized are slim.
Dull as it would be, how about an engraved granite paver for each with name
and dates in the plaza between the restored buildings?

Mr. Insensitive

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