Clarity Emerges at Ground Zero, and Larry Silverstein Clearly Is
Not a Key Ingredient  Just hold your hand over the right side of
the photo. Photo: Courtesy of Silverstein Properties  Today's
Port Authority report on ground zero's future makes clear that
Larry Silverstein's office towers are in jeopardy and that
nobody in government is too worried about salvaging them. A new
schedule commits merely to a memorial-in-progress, a restored
Greenwich Street, and increments of a PATH station by 2011, and
Mayor Bloomberg said in a press conference that he doesn't know
whether Silverstein will build at all. "This is a great place to
have your office," the mayor offered gamely, "and if you build
now you'll probably have it when demand comes back." But
privately, a mayoral aide confided that the city is focusing on
a memorial opening (at least for a day) by September 11, 2011,
and on the Greenwich Street and PATH terminal goals. "You'll
have a memorial, you'll have streets, you'll have transit," the
aide said, citing i