Rumor Control, Indeed (was: Re: Rumor Control: Re: 60 hudson may collapse..
Sean, All, agreed, we have to hold down the rumors. If someone posts a "I heard so and so," the least you should do is cite the source. re: The 60 Hudson location, Like 140 West Street (adjacent to where 7 WTC once stood), 60H is a brick shit house. It's blocks away from Ground Zero, it has not been hit by significant debris (read as: everything within a half-mile radius has had some form of ash or other office artifacts dropped on it), but 60 H it isn't going anywhere from a structural standpoint. Power and spare parts? That's another story. A number of carrier and other SP tenants at 60 Hudson, btw, have their own generation and vent systems installed in this building, and their individual preparedness for this sort of contingency is on a case by case basis. Smaller SPs who have rented racks or shelves are at the mercy of those who they have rented space and power from. As relates to the Empire State Building: NY Police sniffers, as well as ESB bomb dogs, have already disproved the Empire State affair as a hoax, and folks are now able to roam freely there, once again. We are going to see a lot more of this. My niece, who works in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, was sent home today due to a bomb scare outside the State Supreme Court building. It, too, was a hoax. What I am still not clear on is the state of 140 West Street, which was once the HQ building for NY Telephone (now Veirzon), which remains standing and operational, from all indications. The Centrex that was once on the 12 floor in the South Tower was supported by the West Street CO. 140 West withstood the same impact that befell 7 WTC, one would think. It's on the corner of West Street and Veesey, separated from what was 7 WTC by a narrow alley. If anyone knows the operational status of 140 West, please post. --FAC
On Wed, 12 September 2001, Rich Fulton wrote:
we are hearing that 60 hudson has been evacuated and may collapse.
can anyone give confirmation/details?
No one is answering the phones at 60 Hudson, but there is a bomb threat at the Empire State Building and police are evacuating the surrounding area.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Frank Coluccio wrote:
What I am still not clear on is the state of 140 West Street, which was once the HQ building for NY Telephone (now Veirzon), which remains standing and operational, from all indications. The Centrex that was once on the 12 floor in the South Tower was supported by the West Street CO. 140 West withstood the same impact that befell 7 WTC, one would think. It's on the corner of West Street and Veesey, separated from what was 7 WTC by a narrow alley. If anyone knows the operational status of 140 West, please post.
I called in a stack of trouble tickets a while ago. One upside is that VZ is routing calls out of the horrid NYC call center and out to Albany, Pittsburgh, and LI. Very, very friendly and helpful people taking down trouble tickets. All the circuits I called in, while homed out of the Broad Street CO, were routed through the West St CO. The gentleman I spoke with said the building had structural damage, no power, and that some of the breeches to the structure opened up into equipment rooms. To repair the circuits, he said they will be re-engineered. The folks that do that were apparently housed in the WTC. There was no ETR on any of the lines. Charles
--FAC
On Wed, 12 September 2001, Rich Fulton wrote:
we are hearing that 60 hudson has been evacuated and may collapse.
can anyone give confirmation/details?
No one is answering the phones at 60 Hudson, but there is a bomb threat at the Empire State Building and police are evacuating the surrounding area.
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