Governors Island in the New York Times

Sleeping Beauty February 6, 2006 It was once proposed that a new TV tower be built there to replace the one after 9/11/01. It was supported by some in that media. It used vertical cables "woven" around a few disks held in tension, an observation deck would be near the base of the antenna section of the tower. The cables below were to be wound through the top and bottom disks or decks, leaving airy space between them and the slim tower. There was sort of a similar structure in the Smithaven Mall on Long Island once (sans tower), clear strands of plastic "wire" woven around top and bottom holders which light flowed through and what appeared to be glycerin dripped along the curve of the lines. It was at what was the Abraham & Strauss large department store end ("the giant Brooklyn-based department store"). A large Alexander Calder mobile was once selected for the middle "pool" of the mall but the jets of water to have been thrown against it would have wet too many of the pedestrians and it lay out in the parking lot until recently purchased I read in Newsday.