Neighbors Worry About Toxins from Building Next to WTC Site

August 26, 2007

  • August 27, 2007 at 6:07 am
    himself says:
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    I might be sick: I don’t feel sick and I don’t have any symptoms, but until I check with my lawyer, I don’t know if I’m sick.

    It appears that the terms “reasonably foreseeable” or “knew or should have known” ought to be applicable to this situation. Who are you gonna sue anyway? The builders of these buildings? The architects? The owners? Each tradesman who worked on the buildings? The city in which the building is located and who presumably had the building codes in place to “protect” us from the buildings? The firemen who tried to put out the fires? I know. This is America…let’s just sue everyone. Someone will pony up some $$.

  • August 28, 2007 at 8:22 am
    Ohioan says:
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    I work in lower Manhattan and actually handled several WTC claims. I was shocked at the attitude of some locals over the pollution issue. They seem to think that while the rest of the world changes, they don’t have to. They had two concerns. The first was, we want to stay in our apartments no matter what and somebody else should wave a magic wand and cleanse the air. The second was arguing over what kind of memorial to build. These people need to wake up and realize it isn’t their father’s New York and that like it or not, they live in the middle of one of the largest terrorist targets in the world.

  • August 29, 2007 at 2:48 am
    NY broker says:
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    All of you, from lastbat to himself, seem to have gotten the wrong message here. In your zeal to demonize attorneys and litigantsb you miss the point.

    The point here is not anyone suing anyone but that the residents in the area are justifiably worried about the quality of the air they breathe. In the aftermath of 9/11, they were told by the then Secretary of the Environment Chrtie Whitman, that the air was safe. It has since been shown that that was a patently false statement from teh Bush adminstration intended to minimize the impact of the situation at ground zero.

    All these people are asking for now is the ability to breathe clean, safe air.



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