Let's see, this genius wants the emergency command center across the river via the Brooklyn-midtown tunnel and the BQE.
“Let’s see, this genius wants the emergency command center across the river via the Brooklyn-midtown tunnel and the BQE”
Actually, the tunnel goes to Queens. And three bridges connect Brooklyn and downtown. Very close and accessible.
Well, there’s not any good place to put your disaster recovery site in Manhattan. If you put it in walking distance, then whatever screws up your primary location would probably screw up your backup. Bank of NY (or maybe Bank of America) had their BCP site four blocks away from their downtown office and they were totally screwed because they weren’t allowed to go to their site.
I worked in the WTC and our disaster recovery site was in our Jersey City offices. My boss was able to get to the location that day by ferry, the PATH train was all screwed up obviously.
And you can walk over the Manhattan & Brooklyn bridges as many thousands of New Yorkers did that day.