Alan J. Gerson
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Alan J. Gerson Gerson
Advisers to the Skyscraper Safety Campaign, an organization led by two relatives of 9/11 victims, say that the plan for long transfer corridors between the exit doors and stairwells leading up to street level might prompt some visitors, particularly if they were disabled or out of shape, to reverse course and try to get to the wide ramps in the central memorial hall, creating a potentially disastrous bottleneck. The issue will almost certainly come up today in a hearing called by City Councilman Alan J. Gerson of Lower Manhattan. Although the Council has no authority over ground zero, Mr. Gerson said he was convening the session to get a number of issues involving the memorial out in the open, including questions about the emergency exits.