He said the redesign incorporates many lessons learned in the last 40 years: provide constant "eyes on the street," eliminate sharp changes in grade level, offer a variety of seating and create some distinctive feature like the lawn.
And the reason they aren't there is because Geithner and his pals on Wall Street eliminated them.
State officials also said they would sell the block between 39th and 40th Streets, eliminating any possibility of future expansion.
These prerequisites -- which happened to coincide exactly with the Port Authority's wishes -- dictated that the project had to start with a vast empty lot, the interior streets eliminated, and that the building or buildings would rise from a broad, open plaza.
What is clear, he said, is that the city's economy was in better shape than the nation's through the first eight months of this year, with several sectors, including those that cater to tourists, continuing to grow even as Wall Street was eliminating thousands of jobs.
But in talking about safeguarding Social Security, forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices, preventing people who don't have health insurance from dying in the streets, and eliminating tax breaks that favor hedge-fund and private-equity managers (such as Romney), Trump is using the language of economic populism in a manner that none of his Republican rivals can match.
New turning lanes for the recently expanded Bay Terrace Shopping Center across the street had eliminated a number of on-street parking spots, and as a result the center was now towing the cars of patients it had once allowed to use its lot.
His aim, he said, was to force Wall Street to eliminate such conflicts of interest.
In 2000 at the urging of Wall Street, Congress eliminated virtually all government regulation of the derivatives market.
Wall Street has eliminated about 18,500 jobs through Sept. 11, the biggest round of job cuts since 1987.
