Governor Pataki, whose legacy will be written with the rebuilding at ground zero one way or another, is the crucial figure in this new chapter in the post-9/11 story. He needs to encourage Goldman Sachs & Company energetically to keep its building downtown, and push Washington for help in bringing down the old Deutsche Bank building, now shrouded mournfully in black netting. He must make certain that the uplifting Santiago Calatrava PATH station is built as planned. And he should re-engage Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who seems obsessed with other development plans for Manhattan's West Side at a time when Lower Manhattan is urgently in need of his attention. The paragraph above discusses the politics involving the Freedom Tower. The politicians have changed since then, but have the politics changed?