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hmmm, even though I used to spend many lunch hours at the top of the trade center, and of course hate how it is they came to fall .... I'm glad they're gone.
They were an architectural blight on the city. They were giant, over-scaled blocks of complete ugly. The way they simply dominated everything else in Manhattan with their monolithic hugeness was horribly wrong, and I'm very glad they're not part of the skyline any more.
Oh, sure, New Yorkers got used to them, even grew to love them. They were a bizarre oddity that, after a few decades, became accepted and often cherished by the people of New York.
But it literally took decades. The buildings were commercial, artistic and social failures until the late 90's.
And, yeah, since I clearly remember my father's business being forceably relocated to make way for the Towers, I have a secret delight that they were doomed from the start.
I bemoan all the human loss and unspeakable tragedy of that day. But in the long run ... good riddance to the World Trade Center.
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