Andrew, Andrew, Andrew. Bloomberg’s police department TOLD the Pataki people that the Freedom Tower was unsafe and unworkable. In other words, the NYPD did its job. The idiots who chose the Freedom Tower and chose not to listen to the NYPD until the cops made their views very, very publicly known were toadies of the governor. As for the “we’ll fix it for you, Goldman Sachs” talk, it’s just talk. Bloomberg had no authority or capacity to change the tunnel design. And anyway, when the powers-that-be actually did so, Goldman still said no thank you because basically the firm decided it didn’t want to move downtown. You can say it and say it and say it, but Bloomberg wasn’t “distracted” from Ground Zero because he has nothing to do with Ground Zero.