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December 25, 2009, Friday
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THE Freedom Tower being built on the site of the World Trade Center that was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack got its first restaurant on Wednesday - a Subway sandwich shop at the top of the tower.
A crane hoisted nine containers up the signature skyscraper that marks the rebirth of the trade center's 6.5 hectares. The shipping containers-turned-Subway eatery will open in January and keep moving up as the tower is built to 105 floors.
That was about the height of Windows on the World, a dining institution atop one of the original twin towers with a panoramic view of New York and its harbor.
The Freedom Tower, which has five floors so far, is scheduled to be finished by 2013.
Meals will be offered high in the sky for efficiency; to get food from street level, hundreds of ironworkers now use an elevator and must climb.
The workers have only one 30-minute break and as the tower rises it could take as much as 45 minutes just to get down to the street.
A full Subway menu will be served, including the trademark US$5 foot-long sub.
Richard Schragger, who owns the Freedom Tower franchise, said he'll also offer extras no other Subway has: hot dogs, hamburgers and New York's famed pretzels.
On Wednesday, nine bright yellow containers, were hoisted to the tower's fifth floor. There, they'll be stacked on a hydraulically powered platform near two cranes at the building's core. The resulting three-level structure will house a kitchen with refrigeration, an eating area and a compost unit to recycle waste.
Like all franchises of the company, this one will bake its own bread daily - higher and higher above ground zero. As the tower grows, the cranes will jump to the next new floor along with the restaurant, at a rate of one story about every week or two, engineers estimate.
A crane hoisted nine containers up the signature skyscraper that marks the rebirth of the trade center's 6.5 hectares. The shipping containers-turned-Subway eatery will open in January and keep moving up as the tower is built to 105 floors.
That was about the height of Windows on the World, a dining institution atop one of the original twin towers with a panoramic view of New York and its harbor.
The Freedom Tower, which has five floors so far, is scheduled to be finished by 2013.
Meals will be offered high in the sky for efficiency; to get food from street level, hundreds of ironworkers now use an elevator and must climb.
The workers have only one 30-minute break and as the tower rises it could take as much as 45 minutes just to get down to the street.
A full Subway menu will be served, including the trademark US$5 foot-long sub.
Richard Schragger, who owns the Freedom Tower franchise, said he'll also offer extras no other Subway has: hot dogs, hamburgers and New York's famed pretzels.
On Wednesday, nine bright yellow containers, were hoisted to the tower's fifth floor. There, they'll be stacked on a hydraulically powered platform near two cranes at the building's core. The resulting three-level structure will house a kitchen with refrigeration, an eating area and a compost unit to recycle waste.
Like all franchises of the company, this one will bake its own bread daily - higher and higher above ground zero. As the tower grows, the cranes will jump to the next new floor along with the restaurant, at a rate of one story about every week or two, engineers estimate.
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