"With its hotel, offices, restaurants, apartments and observation deck, it is also an all-in-one mixed-use development, built on a busy transit hub. The point i

"With its hotel, offices, restaurants, apartments and observation deck, it is also an all-in-one mixed-use development, built on a busy transit hub. The point is that something better was possible in Lower Manhattan." What, exactly? Sure, it came in well above budget and five years late -- but it works just fine in conjunction with the plaza in front of it. All they need to do now is get the passageway under West street connected to the Fulton Transit Center.