“That’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen,” I said.

It was January 2004, two years and four months after 9/11, and the wounds to our city and New Yorkers’ psyches still felt raw.

A panel of judges had just revealed the results of an international design competition for the National September 11 Memorial, to be built at what we all kept calling Ground Zero.

Their choice: “Reflecting Absence” by unknown architect Michael Arad, a minimalist pair of vast black stone squares that would weep streams of tears into solemn pools, carrying our city’s sorrows into a pit of gloom at the center.

I hated it — and I wasn’t alone.

“We failed every one of…

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