There was a Borders in the World Trade Center. I went there only a few weeks before Sept. 11 looking for a French language newspaper. When I went back to work a week after the disaster, the Borders sign was still hanging there and I couldn't help wondering if any of the books were salvageable.
Eventually they demolished the whole thing. Borders was gone, leaving the Strand as the only local bookstore. They may have a lot of books but it's arranged way too haphazardly to be good for anything except browsing.
And now, finally, over a year and a half later, Borders has decided to reinhabit the neighborhood. A sign hanging in the window of 100 Broadway proclaims: Coming Spring 2003.
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1 - susanna
That's good to hear. I always used the WTC as my gateway into Manhattan from New Jersey, and I spent a lot of time in the WTC Borders; I was there 9 days before the towers came down. Seeing that Borders sign in the window afterward was one of the things that struck home to me. I'll have to make a point to visit the new one.