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World Trade Center, 11 Years Later: Here's What's Popping Up

It's been eleven years since a group of murderous monsters destroyed a good chunk of lower Manhattan during the September 11, terrorist attacks, but a lot's been going on to remind their buddies that "we're still here, dickweeds!"While the enormous Freedom Tower is perhaps the most visible reminder ... More >>

Business Finally Picking Up One Year After 9/11 Memorial Opening

This morning marked the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 men, women and children, most of whom died in the city's Financial District at the World Trade Center. Security felt tighter this year as streets were cordoned off and NYPD directed thousand ... More >>

Freedom Tower Officially New York's Tallest Building. America: F**k Yeah!

Nearly 11 years after terrorists took down the World Trade Center towers, the structures' replacement is now the tallest building in New York City.As of 2:09 p.m., the Freedom Tower became the tallest building in the Big Apple -- and the third tallest building in the world.Two constructions workers ... More >>

'The Sphere' To Leave Battery Park

"The Sphere" -- a sculpture that survived the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center -- will leave Battery Park at the end of the month, according to the Associated Press. The sculpture sat in the plaza between the two towers and became a memorial after it was recovered from the rubble. Despite an o ... More >>

Port Authority Can't Account for $1.7 Billion in Budget

As the Port Authority continues to deal with the fallout from the results of an audit that called the organization "dysfunctional" and "bloated," its board members are now trying to figure out why $1.7 billion in costs for the World Trade Center project weren't included in the PA's original budget. ... More >>

Preliminary Audit Deems the Port Authority a "Dysfunctional Organization"

A preliminary audit commissioned by the board of the Port Authority has found that the institution is "a challenged and dysfunctional organization suffering from a lack of consistent leadership, a siloed underlying bureaucracy, poorly coordinated capital planning process, insufficient cost controls ... More >>

"Twin Towers" on Sixth Avenue About a Mile Apart

Steven Thrasher​Yesterday, we wrote about how from the middle of Sixth Avenue in the West Village, you can get a view that is eerily reminiscent of what the Twin Towers looked like from the same spot a decade ago. The optical illusion is created by the pairing of the Trump SoHo Tower and the ... More >>

One World Trade and Trump SoHo Recreate Twin Towers View on Sixth Avenue

Steven Thrasher​Crossing Sixth Avenue at 11th Street this afternoon, it was impossible not to notice. At its current stage of construction, One World Trade appears to be the same height and size as the Trump SoHo Tower. Together, the two create a view that looks eerily like the pre-9/11 World ... More >>

Barriers

Atheists Don't Want World Trade Center Cross at the 9/11 Memorial

​Atheists groups have been particularly vocal about what they do and don't want with regard to 9/11 memorials, whether they be street signs in Red Hook (Seven in Heaven Way) or displaying the World Trade Center cross at the 9/11 Memorial. The American Atheists have filed a lawsuit, which names ... More >>

President Obama Visits Ground Zero: A Report from the Scene

C. S. Muncy​It was a brilliantly sunny day in Lower Manhattan when President Obama visited Ground Zero around lunchtime. It wasn't as cloudless as September 11th, 2001, but the similarity was uncanny enough to make many of the reporters waiting on line comment about how alike the two days felt ... More >>

The World Trade Center: 'Ill-Conceived, a Needless Expense, and an Ecological Threat'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 19, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 16 The World Trade Center by Sally Helgesen Governors Rockefeller and Cahill came together to congratulate each other, themselves, "the people," David Rockefeller, the Port Authority, the business commun ... More >>

Leftover Crack

Barack Obama in India, New York Times

​President Barack Obama kicked off his Asia trip in India today with a speech at the Taj Mahal Palace, the very same hotel attacked by terrorists two years ago, as a symbolic gesture "absolutely" meant to send a message. Obama has made a priority of strengthening ties with India and other Asia ... More >>

Happy Now? Koran Burned at 'Ground Zero'

via Animal​Bucky Turco of Animal New York was at the scene and comes in with the exclusive: some idiot, desperate for press (but not that one!) went ahead and destroyed a Koran blocks from the World Trade Center site. Here's the story, via Animal, so far, firsthand and without any of the unavo ... More >>

WTC 18th-Century Ship Discovery: A New York Media Personality Test

​New York media outlets are like high-schoolers in a crowded lunchroom -- a circle of nerds, a coterie of posers, cool kids, laid-back social floaters, and, of course, the junkies. Every so often, stories significant enough to report but light enough for playful interpretation truly reveal med ... More >>

New York City Re-Opens Search for 9/11 Remains

WTC debris at the Fresh Kills Landfill​On Friday, New York City is launching a planned three-month sifting operation at the Fresh Kill Landfill on Staten Island to search World Trade Center debris for human remains. In an e-mail to the families of victims, Consumer Affairs Commissioner Nazli ... More >>

Good Soldiers

A restrained Oliver Stone redeems an epoch-defining disaster—and rehabilitates himself

Still Dusted

Clinton, Nadler call for investigation of EPA response to 9-11

Terror Attack

9-11 Conspiracists Invade Ground Zero

The alt.truth crowd takes its message to the memorial service, ‘The New York Times’, and a great big punk concert

The Fire Next Time

Skyscraper safety: the push for NY's high-rises to learn not to burn

The Dayton Discord

'Undefended': A senator finally takes the government to task over the 9-11 findings

Dr. Clinton Versus the Ground Zero Cough

The Empire Strikes Out

Condoleezza Rice Testimony Tote Board

CityState

Families of 9-11 Victims Rally Against Bush Warmongering

It Happened in Baghdad

9-11, Oklahoma City—You Name It

The Witnessing Eye

Artists Document the World Trade Center's Demise

Manhattan Project

Rebuilding Effort Could Secure City's Future as Bourgeois Playground

Exhibit WTC

Dividing the Artifacts of September 11

From the Margins Erased

When the Towers Fell, Homeless People Disappeared. Their Friends Are Still Searching.

Terrorism and Free Trade

On Eve of First WTO Meeting Since Seattle, Bush Pushes for 'Fast Track' While Activists Prepare to Agitate

Spore War

Dozens of Americans Have Tested Postive for Exposure to Anthrax. Having a nervous Breakdown Yet?

Naming Names

The New York Times Blacklists 13 Writers after WTC Report

Financial Fallout

War Exemptions May Affect WTC Insurance Policies

A Memorial in Memorabilia

The Perils of Protest

The Anti-Globalization Movement Alters Its Strategy

Terror Attack

City Primaries Canceled

Economic Terrorism

Markets Fall as World Watches Cities Burn

Terrorism: Up Close And Personal

Nashville Scene founding publisher Albie Del Favero finds himself an eyewitness to the worst terrorist attack in history

Trust Fund Trussed?

World Trade Center Lease Deal Could Slash Housing Revenue

Global Warnings

Documenting Seattle's Festive Resistance

E-Bombs Away! Protest, Panic, and the Politics of Packet Monkeys

Attack of the Killer Kapitalists

Protestors rally to oppose the world trade organization.