I wouldn't work there (or, btw, at the new replacement) - but I would hazard a visit now and then. Chances of the eventual attempt to bring down the buildings would be minimal on any particular day - but I wouldn't tempt fated fate by being there every weekday.
I used to, in fact, visit the Towers very often. I worked a couple of blocks from there for many years, and spent a lot of lunch hours on top of the South Tower because it was such a rad and hightacular place to be (
if I may quote from my recent el jay entry on this subject).
Fond as I was of the tower top, I also have bad memories from my early childhood of when we had to move every last stitch of my dad's store a to a new location a few blocks north because he'd been evicted so the towers could be built where his small business once stood. Plus, I've always thought there were the plainest, ugliest, boxiest, bloatedest, boringest buildings every built, and I hated the way the two unimaginative behemoths dominated the lower Manhattan skyline. Though obviously not happy about the reasons why and the ways how - I'm actually quite glad the towers are gone. They were an eyesore, in my opinion - and the new replacement tower is going to be much prettier.
The early 70's were not the height of design expression in any field.
I think the new memorial is a bit on the unimaginative side itself, but it will be prettier than the towers it commemorates. I'll be visiting there about 3 weeks after the memorial opens, and as a New Yorker (once and always), an American and a fan of architecture, I will have conflicted feelings about the towers being gone.
