On December 30, 2015, New York Times’ “Critical Shopper,” Jon Caramanica, wrote about the luxury shops at Brookfield Place (formerly the World Financial Center) across from the World Trade Center site.
“It is a testament to the resilience of our real estate developers, if not our national mood. Here, at the heart of the city’s suffering, we are being told to shop: To spend is to be healed,” he writes.