Site to include memorial for 1993 bombing victims

Real Estate Weekly, March 5, 2003 by Steve Viuker

As media attention has focused on the WTC rebuilding effort, state officials said yesterday that they would erect a temporary memorial to the victims of the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center and that it would include a fragment of the original memorial, which was destroyed in the collapse of the twin towers in 2001.

The announcement came two days before the 10th anniversary of the bombing, which killed six people. A site has not been chosen yet and a permanent memorial will be part of a larger one to be built where the trade center stood.

A memorial Mass for the six victims was held at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Lower Manhattan. Engineers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site, are working on the design of the memorial. Four of the six people killed in the bombing were Port Authority employees.

Michael Macko, whose father, William J. Macko, was killed in the bombing, said yesterday that the fragment of the original memorial, which was found in the rubble of the towers, "holds great importance for those families."

The memorial to the 1993 dead included the names of the victims and was placed on the trade center plaza directly above the basement lunchroom where the four Port Authority employees were killed.