I work in a tall building now, surronded by even more tall buildings.
I don’t particularly like elevators, but the view from high up is spectacular.
Life is not safe. Pick your risk and enjoy the ride.l
I’m not scared of tall buildings but I can’t say I’m terribly enthusiastic about elevators. Especially when it would take several minutes to get to the top in one. I’d still do it though. Might take the stairs for the first few days (My fat lard butt could use the exercise).
Do I get an Anti-aircraft gun?
I’d learn to base jump first, if only to make me feel safer. I’d keep something in my office,anything, that could bust out one of those windows (shotgun?), Oh it goes without saying I’d keep a parachute handy.
BTW these things I’d keep secret, I wouldn’t tell anyone…
Tall buildings sway and make me nauseous. I was at a couple of parties on the 60th floor and it made me shudder when pencils would suddenly roll off the table as the wind shifted.
No, but I wouldn’t have worked there in the old one either, or in any tall building. Simply not a fan of heights.
I used to work on the 94th floor of One World Trade Center.
I left that job before the 1993 bombing, but once when there was a major power failure, I had to walk down from the 94th floor to the 78th floor, where I found an elevator running on emergency power.
I had friends and family that worked in the Trade Center on 9/11/01 and some were killed.
Would I work on a high floor of the new World Trade Center: Yes, absolutely. If we let the terrorists terrify us, the terrorists have won. I currently work on the 51st floor of an office tower in Midtown. It doesn’t bother me at all.
Besides, the way the WTC swayed in the wind was kind of cool, and there was little better to happen in a boring meeting than to look out the window to see a plastic bag floating in an updraft 94 stories up.
Yes, I would. On the one hand, I have an absolutely terrible fear of heights. On the other hand, tall buildings interest me greatly (the scenes of Coruscant in AOTC made me drool).
I’m very acrophobic, so I wouldn’t even go near a tall building, but then I don’t live in NYC so it’s a moot point really …
Basically, yes.
If I was suicidal.
You know they will try to blow it up again if it is rebulit.
If we go to war with Iraq, then the Saudis AND the Iraqis will try next time.
I doubt that I’d work higher than the fifth floor of any building unless I absolutely adored or needed my job. I am, in effect, non-ambulatory & shudder to think how screwed I might be in the event of any emergency, or even if the elevators suddenly freaked out & stopped working around quitting time.
Perhaps get one of those motorized hang gliders, or a jet pack like on the Jetsons.
I love tall buildings. Not only would I be willing to work on the 100th floor, but I’d PUSH for the opportunity if one existed.
I’d even pack up and move back to the east coast for that chance.
Of course, I thought the new design only had 70 occupied floors?! Did I read it wrong?
Though I think a plane should be flown into the new design (The Foster plan was faaaaar superior in every imaginable aspect), yeah I would work there.
I have an ex-gf who worked in 1WTC (I forget which floor, but it was above the second skylobby), and was lucky enough to see that tower from the inside before it was felled. I say that as 1 WTC always a bit more mysterious than her sister, what with being not nearly as accessible to the general public (when I was there, you pretty much had to know someone who worked there to be allowed upstairs…)
I too was fortunate enough to see that happen (I couch it like that as it is extremely unlikely that I will ever again see a history making event unfold.) The thing is, seeing a new one (hopefully more worthy than the design that “won”) go up & then being able to see it from the inside, wow, I just think it would be spectacular tobe a part of that, even if I had “work” there.
Hell, no. The images of those poor people jumping from 110 stories haunts me to this day.
Of course, I went on a cruise back in '91 and I was nervous the whole time thinking about those poor people on the Titanic: Are there enough lifeboats? What if there were a fire? And that was well before the movie Titanic came out.
Since there won’t really be offices up there, but possibly something cultural or memorial, I would DEFINITELY go up there to visit briefly. But I love heights and tall buildings!
I would, especially if my office had a view. I love the view from tall buildings.
CJ
Yup, in a heartbeat. I’d been up to Sandler O’Neill’s offices on 102, and kept thinking - damn, what they’ve done to this space is ugly, what a waste. I’d love to see what you could do with a reno.
Still think that. Even after 9/11, watching them burn, looking for names (I was lucky, to my knowledge no one I know died).
It’s getting back up on the horse again, y’know?
You’re entitled to your yes/no opinion, but you have any proof at all of that claim of reprisal? Geez, it’s not even clear that Iraq had anything to do with bringing down the original WTC. One is probably statistically more likely to be killed by a subway or something on the way to work than because of an Iraqi/Saudi attack on the place.
And for the record, sure, I’d work there. I bet office space there might even be reasonably-priced since there are people that wouldn’t want the real estate there.