Residents Suing to Prevent 'Fortresslike' Security Plan at World Trade Center

Barriers, gates, fences and checkpoints surround the new World Trade Center in order to secure the new site, but some Lower Manhattan residents are preparing to sue the New York Police Department over its security plan for the building, saying that the plan will leave the center in “fortresslike isolation” and the area around it “as impervious to traffic as the Berlin Wall.”

According to a New York Times report, the group’s chief objection was that the environmental impact statement about the plan “failed to explain and generally suppressed the N.Y.P.D.’s rationale for critical aspects of the plan based on a purported need for secrecy.”