Save the Sphere (Koenig's Sphere, WTC)

08/24/2025

https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/exec-salaries-skyrocket-while-cash-strapped-9-11-museum-continues-to-bleed-red-slap-in-the-face/

Here’s an idea for the perpetual in the red memorial and museum foundation: return the iconic Koenig Sphere to the site and sell little bronze spheres in the gift shop. In fact, make it your brand icon and sell t-shirts and caps with it. Just think that maybe a symbol of strength and resilience would work better than two immense, ever draining nihilistic “voids.”

08/24/2025

Not sure that managing at the Nat’l September 11 Museum and Memorial should put you in the top 2% of American income. Some of these salaries are more than the combined salaries of many of the fire companies that were wiped out in response, 9/11.

07/28/2025

It was recently revealed that the Port Authority will install lights in Liberty Park so the iconic sculpture the Koenig Sphere, the sole artifact of the WTC to survive the attacks intact, can be lit at night. However, the question is: why is the Sphere in Liberty Park in the first place? Why isn't it on the memorial plaza? Why wasn't it returned to where it stood for nearly 30 years, to where miraculously survived the attacks in place? To where it was embraced by Ground Zero workers as a reverent symbol of strength and resilience? So that it might stand at the memorial as an authentic reminder of the attacks? The answer, as they say, will surprise you.

04/28/2023

Please see!

Each year since 2015, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation has held the Tunnel to Towers Tower Climb NYC at One World Observatory at One World Trade Center in New York City. One thousand participants climb 104 stories, symbolizing strength, hope and the resiliency of the American spirit. The event celebr...