New York city and state officials are celebrating their commitment to fill space in the Freedom Tower. But there seems to be less cheering ? and considerable distress ? among people who might actually have to report for work every day in the symbolic replacement for the destroyed World Trade Center. Employees of state and federal agencies that may be among the first occupants of the Freedom Tower said yesterday that for many of them, horrible memories of Sept. 11 were still too fresh to consider a return to ground zero. Their emotional responses indicated that engineering a government-led reoccupation of the site may be more difficult than public officials recognize.
See "Employees Say No to Freedom Tower", Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times, September 18, 2006