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" I was down in lower Manhattan the other day for an interview and caught a glimpse of 1 World Trade Center. And, man, is it getting up there \u2014 almost 60 stories. I had to stop and look. I hadn&amp;#039;t seen it since they were still finishing off that massive foundation and it was just a thick stub. Now it&amp;#039;s shooting up. The thing is fat, too. It&amp;#039;s going to be a big, solid, massive building that says fuck you if you wanna mess with me, motherfucker. Which is exactly what we want it to say. And nearby there&amp;#039;s the new Frank Gehry building corkscrewing into the skies, a silly thing. Great combination. Later, I drove up the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Red Hook (after buying my kid a sofa at the once-controversial Brooklyn Ikea) and saw the prow of Manhattan from the other side, a giant grid of windows glowing in the dark velvet of the water and the night. The mighty financial zone! I worked there when I first came to Manhattan many years ago, and it was awesome then in its grandeur and density. More so now. You realize the rest of the city is almost a little sperm-tail to this giant cresting bulge of wealth and power. It glistens with potency, puffing its chest forward against the ocean, facing down any comparable stretch of Hong Kong or Singapore or Berlin. How weird that the &amp;quot;mosque&amp;quot; issue became so big, and what a loser mentality it shows. Because really, look at this place. Look at World Trade Center rising. CLICK HERE TO READ SCOTT RAAB&amp;#039;S AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE REBUILDING &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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