Reply #89: Oops. My mistake.

[Bolo Boffin]

My mistake on the buildings right by it. D'oh!

Let's see - 90 Church, the Federal Post Office Building. Unless I miss my guess:

http://www.tribecatrib.com/newsjuly04/post-office.htm

At this page, there's a picture from inside the building looking out. And I believe that a perimeter column section is right outside the window.




Not sure where this is in the building, but it's hella cross the street from the WTC towers. It's not dangling though. But it is over there.

The NY Telephone building I can't find any perimeter columns in. But...

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/rescue.video.09.html#12th

Select CNN's Gary Tuchman shows some of the extensive damage in and around the World Trade Center (Sept. 12). No timer, but it's about a third of the way through. There's a shot of WTC 7, then it switches to inside WTC 6, looking out on the pile, then the camera pans back to WTC 7 and zooms in. It's obscured by the logo for a moment, but as the camera pans to the right, it's right there:




The only thing I did to that picture was enlarge it 100%. Next I adjusted the levels, to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing.




Yep. Right by the logo, among the rubble of WTC 7, a perimeter column from WTC 1.

I've been looking at lots of pictures of debris, you can imagine. I've really been struck with how serrated those perimeter column pieces are. You can look along the edges of the perimeters still standing - imagine the damage those damned things did, flying through the air, accelerating as they fell. One of the pictures shows the huge gouge the perimeter column chunks took out of WTC 5.