By Andrew Rice 6/25/01 12:00am

Minskoff Declares Battery Park Tower Even as Foes Moan

No one seems to believe Edward J. Minskoff. Two months ago,

the developer made what could fairly be described as a stunning announcement:

He was planning to build a 36-story speculative office building on Greenwich

Street, near Battery Park City.

It was as if, at a time when other developers were boarding

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By Andrew Rice 11/20/00 12:00am

The Tower Broker: Zuccotti Makes Bid for Trade Center

An innocuous-looking government report sits on a shelf in

John Zuccotti’s office on the sixth floor of One Liberty Plaza. Published in

1981, The Future of the World Trade

Center represents the findings of a blue-ribbon panel chaired by Mr.

Zuccotti, a former deputy mayor who was then settling into life as a

high-powered private Read More