News - Deutsche Bank Building
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to replace one of the office towers at the World Trade Center with a luxury hotel, the New York Post said. Sources told the newspaper the agency believes a combination of hotel and up-market apartments is a better commercial proposition than more offices, given the current oversupply of commercial buildings in Manhattan.
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - They had no water, hardly any air and no way out.In frantic, confused radio dispatches from inside a burning toxic skyscraper near ground zero last August, firefighters made a series of desperate pleas for help as they encountered boarded-up stairwells and a broken water pipe, got lost in the smoke and ran out of air.They had to saw through wood to get up the stairs and run a hose up the side of the building from a hydrant on the ground; some ended up jumping from windows to escape."We're on 17 but we ain't going much past the stairway," one firefighter said from the floor where the Aug.
MELVILLE, N.Y. _ Manhattan prosecutors continue to dig deep into the circumstances of last August's fire at the Deutsche Bank building that killed two firefighters.