CUNY's Fiterman Hall Building To Be Demolished Before Thanksgiving
New York, NY —
A building that has served as a grim reminder of the September 11th attack in Lower Manhattan is itself about to become history. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.
REPORTER: Fiterman Hall was a 14-story building owned by the City University of New York, just a couple blocks north of the World Trade Center site. Most of it is gone now, after an extensive decontamination and demolition process. Officials say the whole building will be down before Thanksgiving. Catherine McVeigh Hughes,with Community Board One, says the impact from the ruin's removal is dramatic.
HUGHES: You no longer saw the building shrouded and you saw this sunlight beaming in. It was absolutely gorgeous. It is great to have that constant reminder of September 11th to be gone.
REPORTER: Officials say a new $320-million classroom building will be open for students by the fall of 2012. For WNYC I am Bob Hennelly.
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