Word that World Financial Center owner Brookfield Properties is contemplating a major renovation, including demolishing some or all of the grand staircase in the Winter Garden, has gotten some locals all worked up. They want the staircase to stick around, but Brookfield points out that the new underground connection to the World Trade Center will empty out to a dead end behind the current staircase. Then there's the fact that the staircase itself, once connected to a pedestrian bridge destroyed on 9/11, now goes absolutely nowhere. [Broadsheet Daily; previously]
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