Volume 49, Number 5 · March 28, 2002
The World Trade Center: Before, During, & After
By Michael Tomasky
Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center
by Eric Darton
Basic Books, 241 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
by Angus Kress Gillespie
Rutgers University Press, 263 pp., $26.00
When David Rockefeller hired the famous Gordon Bunshaft to build One Chase Manhattan Plaza in the late 1950s—at seventy stories, the first skyscraper to rise downtown in a generation—he had hoped that the neighborhood the bank was about to inhabit would also change. Aside from the stock exchanges, the major brokerage houses, investment banks, law and insurance offices, and other businesses in the financial district, the neighborhood still had a good many manufacturers and merchants in electronic parts—stable, but what chamber-of-commerce types might call 'underutilizers' of the land upon which they sat.
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