Both those days were bad scenes, what happened downtown, Pentagon and in PA. just hard to reconcile with. We had crews working on jobs from downtown, to uptown on various jobs, lot of work in the mid 90's to that time, was and still is a boomtime era for construction there. Also had a crew at Newark aiport at the new continental air traffic control tower who saw this event. You should have seen what it was like to get on the airside where we were working on that airport after this, was nerve racking, you did not want to be mistakenly ID'd, they'd have cut you in half with bullets, everyone was on edge. I had older guys on my crews who were actually on the WTC job when it was built. I used to go down there and take the elevator to the top quite often, to take in the view and look at the job sites from afar. We were on W3rd st that day, what we saw you can't describe without having some extremely bitter thoughts and vengeance included, better left said that I'd like to see justice done in my lifetime, a real sore subject for me and a lot of people, it's unfinished business in my book. I was there in '93 as well and was in disbelief at first when seeing the towers on fire, but knew all along this was not over in '93, just hoped I was not in the tunnel headed in/out, they caught those guys before that happened, but what I can't understand is why they did not think they would return, after that tunnel conspiracy post '93 which also seemed to have been kept on the down low, back burner, you knew this was not over and evil minds were at work against us, had that truck bomb been in the tunnel in '93.... just unbelievable. Seemed like a lot of people who were management on jobsites also became real @ssholes after what happened, people never talked about it much, but a lot of people became really nasty in the wake of this, the jobsites were boiling caldrons of stress, became much more so than they ever were before, people were constantly on edge about every little thing.
They just lost a crane at 98th over on the west side, know the crane outfit very well, same outfit lost one in March, and know the engineer that filed the permit on that one, he did all my filings and engineering for my crane installations, it's an extremely dangerous place to work, super fast paced, things happen in split seconds, have to be on your toes at all times with everything you do.
We did a sizeable job at Columbia Univesity, they built Lenfest Hall there in '02 a reinforced concrete high rise dorm and we did all the metal and glass on that one, was not assigned that job, but had to get involved because we were so busy then, the other project manager was overloaded, can remember checking rough openings behind the mason on that one. There was another new building coming up behind Lenfest Hall too.
Getting stuck on a subway car and having to walk the track, 3rd rail, rats inside old coffee cups, stench, garbage, homeless people, flooded areas, it's a bad place to be in the dark, a real bad place to be, been there done that, that was my last subway ride, been stuck on hot sweaty cars in the summer before that day, narrowly escaping to a nearby station was the last straw, at least for awhile, the few times I experienced it was enough to do it for me. Those cross street, east/west trains get dangerously crowded, if the president is in town, they are a mistake to ride on, better to walk. Those tunnels and areas under the island of Manhattan are a city in themselves.
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