Dey-Cortlandt Square

They recently unveiled designs for three very expensive and very ugly modern money making boxes of architecture for the new World Trade Center. Did anybody else notice anybody giving at least one decent emotion or reaction to this modern look alike metal and glass trash - with a yawn and maybe even a belch?

Words like a rising Phoenix do not fit as a proper cliché for the ongoing task of rebuilding of the beginning of what I think is an ongoing metamorphosis of the old World Trade Center.

They are always going to call it the World Trade Center. What I think is appropriate is to distance the once overly grand twin towers from the now proposed hodge podge of trailer trash skyscrapers crowding out the valuable square footage under shoe. I think we should offer another name of this expensive new neighborhood.

I know of many an American slum that gets gentrified and the old neighborhood goes to hell and too expensive to live in anymore. The first sign of upscale change is usually the little add on to every street sign that proclaim this emerging slum as "historic district".

I think that since the new alternate name for the new hodge podge creation should be Dey-Cortlandt Square. Dey and Cortlandt Streets are the two streets that used to lead into the WTC complex. Part of these streets were of course wiped off the map to accommodate the building of the old WTC.

Don’t you just want to rent or buy an expensive condo at Dey-Cortlandt Square, the most exclusive expensive place currently on the Manhattan real estate map. World Trade Center has such a connotation of "possible active target".

Of course there will be the WTC memorial within Dey-Cortlandt Square. Can’t forget that. Time to move on New York City. It’s time to move on.