The history of New York can be told from a multitude of prisms, beyond its natural miscegenation between immigrants from very different places. The city itself, its physiognomy and its final definition as a mega-city of gigantic buildings that shelters the dreams of prosperity of half the world can be reduced to its buildings, how and who raised them.
The grace always resides in the way of counting things. We start from the recent past, from the gloomy 11/2001 of the year XNUMX. The foundations of the West shook together with those of the twin towers. That is where the author introduces his first character, who will give way to a family saga, all of them relevant to the physical construction of skyscrapers.
The character is none other than John LaLiberté, who saw the Twin Towers collapse quickly came to try to help in the rescue efforts.
Who is John LaLiberté? His father, Jack LaLiberté participated in the construction of the same towers back in 1968 ...
The NY skyline begins to be understood as a drawing outlined by the LaLiberté.
But, the most curious thing is that the surname LaLiberté is a particular translation of other, much more tribal surnames. Both John and Jack are of Mohawk blood, from nearby Canada, across Lake Ontario, where Toronto and Buffalo gaze at each other in the fascinating mirror of Niagara Falls.
The Canadian reservation of the Mohawks underwent a particular revolution in 1886 when young men were offered to work in metal to build a train line between Canada and the United States. The young apprentices could not even remotely imagine that, thanks to their hard work and bravery, they would end up forming many of the buildings of burgeoning New York.
So New York, its skyline and its current charm owes a debt to those brave Indians who climbed to the top without fear. At least this book will serve for a recognition that reaches up to the current Freedom Tower that occupies the other sinister zone 0.
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