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HARTFORD
Bill Would Expand
‘Red Flag’ Law
Key Connecticut legislators
are calling for an expansion of
the state’s gun-seizure law to al-
low relatives and medical profes-
sionals to report someone is too
dangerous to possess firearms.
The Democratic co-chairmen
of the Judiciary Committee, Sen.
Gary Winfield andRep. Steve
Stafstrom, have introduced a bill
to revamp Connecticut’s 1999
“red flag” law, which was the first
in the country to allow judges to
order people’s guns seized upon
evidence they are a danger to
themselves or others.
The law allows only prosecu-
tors and police to ask a judge to
issue a risk warrant to tempo-
rarily seize a person’s guns. The
bill would add relatives, house-
hold members and medical pro-
fessionals, including physicians,
physician assistants, nurses and
psychologists.
Gun-rights groups oppose the
bill. Of particular concern to
them is the lack of a require-
ment for a law-enforcement in-
vestigation before relatives and
medical professionals could file a
court complaint seeking seizure
of someone’s guns.
—Associated Press
NEW JERSEY
Tape Dispenser Used
In Killing, Officials Say
A woman fatally beat her
male roommate with a tape dis-
penser, a shower rod and other
items during a dispute inside
their southern New Jersey home
last month, authorities said.
Mary Carbone, 56 years old,
was charged this week with
murder and four weapons of-
fenses, according to the Ocean
County Prosecutor’s Office. It
wasn’t known Thursday if she
has retained an attorney.
The charges stem from the
death of Frank Stochel, who was
found Feb. 24 lying on the floor
of the Manchester home. His
death was ruled a homicide.
—Associated Press
no easy task, said Richard Roth
Jr., a former president of the
company and grandson of its
namesake. “I would have gone
crazy” doing it, said Mr. Roth,
who is now retired in Florida.
Mr. Solomon headed to Den-
ver with his family in the ’70s
as the construction business
languished in New York, ac-
cording to Amy Lee Solomon,
his daughter. The set of TradeCenter blueprints was “one of
the things he took with him,”
she said. He died in Denver in
November 2017 at the age of
89, having spent years continu-
ing his work as an architect in
Colorado.
By May 2018, his daughter
decided it was time to go
through her father’s belongings
and clear some space in the
house. The blueprints, storedin the garage on top of some
old cabinets, were among the
items she tossed, not thinking
there was any value to them.
Enter Jake Haas, a Denver-
area resident who often buys
and sells antiques and collect-
ibles. He happened to be driv-
ing past the Solomon house
that day in May and noticed
the pile of trash. He stopped
because he thought he spottedsome antique maps, “stuff that
could be worth $40 or $
apiece,” he said.
It was only when he got
home and started taking a
closer look at what he had
gathered—not maps but blue-
prints—that he started to put
it all together. Particularly
when he saw the references to
“Tower A” and “Tower B.”
Mr. Haas eventually sold the
set to Angelo Arguello, an
owner of three pawnshops in
the Denver area, for an undis-
closed sum. In turn, Mr. Ar-
guello found his way to James
Cummins, sensing he needed to
work with a New York dealer to
give the item proper exposure.
Mr. Arguello said the item is
being sold via the Cummins
team on a consignment basis.Mr. Cummins wouldn’t com-
ment on the terms.
Adding to the blueprints’
potential value is the fact that
even institutions closely con-
nected with the World Trade
Center lack such a complete
set.
The 9/11 Memorial & Mu-
seum said it has only select
blueprints from the site’s de-
velopment. And the Port Au-
thority of New York and New
Jersey, the owner of the origi-
nal World Trade Center site,
can’t say definitively whether
it possesses a complete set at
this point. Many of the author-
ity’s documents were lost on
Sept. 11, 2001, since it had of-
fices in the Trade Center.
Ms. Solomon said she
doesn’t begrudge Mr. Haas his
find or the sellers who stand to
profit. If anything, she said she
is grateful others saw what she
missed and her father’s contri-
bution to a New York landmark
is being recognized.
“This was the quintessential
project of his life,” she said.When veteran architect Jo-
seph Solomon left New York
City for Denver in the 1970s, he
brought along a work-related
keepsake: a set of blueprints
for the World Trade Center,
one of the key projects of his
career up until that time.
Now, almost a half-century
later, the set has returned
home after an unlikely odys-
sey—which includes them be-
ing salvaged from the trash.
James Cummins Bookseller,
a Manhattan-based dealer of
rare books, autographs and
other items, is selling the
World Trade Center documents
for $250,000 at the New York
International Antiquarian Book
Fair running through Sunday
at the Park Avenue Armory.
The set is the largest one of
World Trade Center blueprints
ever offered for sale, the Cum-
mins team said, with more
than 500 plans (or “leaves”)
covering the Twin Towers and
other site components. The set
dates from the late ’60s
through the early ’70s; the
center opened officially on
April 4, 1973.
The bookseller said smaller
sets of World Trade Center
blueprints have been sold in
the past. But it also said those
sets were connected to the re-
construction of the World
Trade Center after the site’s
1993 bombing. The Solomon
set, on the other hand, is a
window into the Trade Center
from its earliest envisioning.
“I think you do get a sense
of what a massive undertaking
this was,” said Brian Kalk-
brenner, a seller with James
Cummins.
The story of how the set
came up for sale is perhaps
just as noteworthy as the
blueprints themselves. Mr.
Solomon worked on the Trade
Center project as a junior
partner in Emery Roth & Sons,
a prominent New York archi-
tectural firm that came up
with the plan for the site in
partnership with the architect
Minoru Yamasaki.
The size and scope of the
Trade Center made the projectBYCHARLESPASSYTrade Center Blueprints Tossed, Saved
Blueprints showing the elevation of the World Trade Center towers, The set is now being offered for sale.CAITLIN OCHS FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNALThe towers’
blueprints were
rescued from the
trash in Colorado.Source: Ipsos Affluent Survey Fall 2019. The Wall Street Journal Total Brand.
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