Fort Lee Rotary Gets Rare Tour of GWB Tower
Thanks to the efforts of a longtime Fort Lee businessman and Rotary Club member, the group was escorted to the top of the West Tower Tuesday afternoon.
More than 25 members of the Fort Lee Rotary Club were treated Tuesday to what some called a “once in a lifetime” experience and others said was something they could “cross off their bucket list,” when the group was taken to the top of the West Tower of the George Washington Bridge. According to the Port Authority personnel who led the tour, since 9/11, only a handful of groups get to go up the tower each year, and most of them work for the agency in some capacity. Only two or three non-Port Authority groups get to take in the spectacular views from that particular vantage point, and some of them are civil engineering students there for educational purposes. But one person who can arrange such a tour is John Koch of the Fort Lee Rotary Club…
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Joyce
11:13 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
This was wonderful to see. When I worked at Fort Lee Savings & Loan, somewhere in the early 1970s, my boss, Howard Colville knew one of the higher ups at the Port Authority and they took me on that tour to the top of the West Tower! It was the most scary but memorable tour I have ever experienced. I will never forget it. Joyce Tannert Ottavio more ›