NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- It’s been nearly twenty years since the physical recovery at the World Trade Center came to an end, yet many of those who assisted at Ground Zero continue to feel the physical effects today.
Currently, there are numerous conditions and diseases classified by the Federal Government as a World Trade Center Illness, and uterine cancer is on the verge of being added as well.
On this week’s episode of WCBS 880’s In Depth Podcast, listen as we speak to Dr. Iris Udasin. SHe heads the World Trade Center Health Program at Rutgers University, and she’s got some thoughts on how New York can learn from its infrastructural mistakes of the past as lower Manhattan’s design continues to be reimagined.
We also speak to Catherine McVay Hughes. A former member of the World Trade Center Redevelopment Committee, we hear her opinion on how integral new projects in Lower Manhattan can be to the rest of the city.
“It's really up to the people in power and whether the folks that own these buildings, to be at the cutting edge and reinvent those spaces, and make it an environment where people want to live and to be,” she says.
She points out that the land owners also play a big role in the city’s future too. And she points out that the public space they build near is “precious” for its leisurely and economic value too. “It might be where you will see a friend or a colleague and go out for a coffee,” she adds.
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