28-02-2011, 03:11 AM
Jeffrey Orling Wrote:Not so Jack.
"Fiterman Hall was a 15-story building on the campus of this college at 30 West Broadway in Lower Manhattan. It opened in 1959 as an office building before owner Miles Fiterman, whom the building was named after, donated it to BMCC in 1993, which at the time was the largest private donation to a community college in U.S. history. It was renovated in 2000 to receive new windows and infrastructure. The building was owned by the State of New York Dormitory Authority.[3]["
Correct. I was remembering this that I read, and thought it
was referring to just the one building at 30 West Broadway.
A more careful rereading shows that it is referring to TWO
buildings being torn down. The other one was a bank on Liberty
Street:
....The work to decontaminate and demolish Fiterman was delayed several times, first over insurance and funding disputes and then after the fatal 2007 fire in the Deutsche Bank building, another 9/11-damaged tower. The deconstruction of the 26-story Deutsche Bank building just restarted last week, and it won't be down until late spring at the earliest.