Morning, all.

Wildly OT: yesterday, I had a chance to visit the WTC construction site. That is an amazing place.

WTC 1 is now up to about 50 stories (I made it to 48 where they are pouring concrete for the core), the memorial space is looking pretty good (they are planting trees already), the museum is coming along, the transit hub is making progress, and there is a giant mud pit where the Deutsch Bank building was.

Some fun stats:

They have a crane with a million pound counterweight that they use for the heaviest lifts of big steel.

There are more big cranes deployed there than in the rest of Manhattan combined.

Despite it being a very active construction site, what with two skyscrapers, a memorial, a museum, a transit hub, and a vehicle security center all being built simultaneously, they still move nearly a half-million commuters through the site every business day, since the downtown PATH station is right in the middle of things.

Way cool.