[BC] WTC replacement tower

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:44 PM 4/6/2010, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote: -------

>Richarrrrrd......
>You know better than that! You can't take a single sentence out of 
>context and make a pretense about it!!!!
>The 2000 ft tower was proposed in Bayonne, NJ to replace the towers 
>lost at WTC. That's what the New York Times reported. Others here 
>then stated that the idea was rejected.

Dick,
I was living there at the time. There was more than one tall tower 
proposed. You're correct that one was proposed in NJ. There was also 
one proposed somewhere between the tip of Manhattan and Brooklyn. It 
was also suggested that the Alpine tower be raised by 500 ft. That 
one mobilized the neighborhood against it. After nearly 10 years it 
seems stations are happy with Empire and the Conde Nast (Durst) 
building as an alternate site in Times Square. I watched the Conde 
Nast building being built from my office window a block away at WOR. 
It was clear it would be a transmitting site when they started on the 
supporting structure on the roof. Friends tell me it may be as good a 
site as Empire.

The WTC tower was a bad radio site. I was PD at WPIX-FM and we had 
terrible signal problems in Midtown and started making plans to 
return to Empire. They ultimately did. It was a great site for New 
Jersey. I was told our TV (CH 11) yearned for a better TV site. From 
the WTC stations had to shoot through seemingly endless acres of tall 
buildings.

Rich