Everyone is apparently very shocked that the new Time Warner Center is killing people. In my family we already knew that the building was lethal. When construction began on the site, back when the former Amish farmers market/coliseum building was torn down, my father's office was across the street. Around the same time, my father began to develop a hacking cough and chronic chest pain. A few weeks later he visited a doctor who decided that my father's lungs and esophagus were burned. The only explanation was the construction dust from the site. Fortunately, his office moved downtown shortly after that. I also recall construction supplies being blown off the building in a wind storm last year as well. Bad building, bad!
So with some trepidation and a family blood feud brewing, I visited the building for lunch last Saturday. It didn't look evil--it just looked like a mall. We had lunch at the Whole Foods made peace over a falafel wrap and chocolate macaroons. Its a truce really. The building won't kill my family members in its bloodlust and I have to have lunch there whenever I'm on the west side. (I think I got the better side of the deal).
