World Trade Center

Watch One World Trade Center Go Up In An Incredible Time-Lapse Video

To commemorate the twelfth anniversary of 9/11, Earth Cam, a Hacksensack, New Jersey-based webcam company, released a time-lapse video of the construction of the new World Trade Center. The nine years it's taken to put up the new building gets collapsed into a video less than two minutes long. Check ... More >>

9/11 Family Group Wants National Park Service to Take Over WTC Memorial

A 9/11 family group is calling for the National Parks Service to take over the memorial/museum at the World Trade Center site, claiming that the folks currently running it have turned it into a "memorial-industrial complex characterized by gross mismanagement, bloated salaries and out-of-control spe ... 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 >>

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 >>

Mike Bloomberg Contemplates Motorcycle

This is something of a still life, but with people! Yesterday, our inscrutable Mayor Bloomberg was down at the World Trade Center, where a really fancy (and big!) motorcycle designed by Paul Teutul Jr. of American Chopper fame was unveiled as a tribute to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center ... More >>

Ground Zero Tolerance

With no politician willing to take charge, the 9/11 recovery has dragged on far too long

9|11: The Winners

For some people, the terrorist attacks have been a gold mine

MISSING YOU

10 ways to remember

City May Make Room for More Politicians at 9/11 Memorial Ceremony

​As we've written twice before, this year's commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero -- which marks the 10th, and will be held for the first time at the new 9/11 Memorial -- has a rather exclusive invitee list. That is to say, it was only to be open to victim's families and certain politicians, d ... More >>

Bob Turner, Congressional Candidate: No Palestinian Chicken Next to Goldblatt's Deli?

One good nontroversy deserves another. Now that Anthony Weiner has abandoned his post representing New York's 9th Congressional District over rather silly reasons, and will soon be replaced by Democrat David Weprin or Republican Bob Turner, it seems fitting that the special election is being framed ... More >>

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 >>

9/11 Anniversary Coming Up: Cue the Tearjerkers, Media Demands

​Well, it's that time again. The 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks is coming up. And we all know what that means: media outlets around the world are gearing up to roll out the tearjerkers and are inundating families of the dead with interview requests. From the UK Teleg ... More >>

Crowds Celebrate Osama Bin Laden's Death At Ground Zero And In Times Square

​Unless you've been hiding under a rock all night, you'll have heard that Osama Bin Laden was killed yesterday in Pakistan by American forces. As of the last few hours, huge crowds have gathered at New York City's Ground Zero and in Times Square to celebrate the news. We've been in contact wit ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead: Reports From Ground Zero This Morning [UPDATED]

Photos by Steven Thrasher​It was quiet and foggy at Ground Zero this morning -- the first New York had woken up to knowing Osama Bin Laden was dead -- but not entirely silent. By 5:30 a.m., the impromptu all night party was still going on in pockets, most noticeably in front of the 9/11 Memori ... 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 >>

9/11 Video From Police Helicopter Now on YouTube

The "secret-sharing" website Cryptome has released a never-before-seen video of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, as visible from a police helicopter circling 300 feet above the burning towers. The video was obtained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as part o ... More >>

Downtown Mosque Poetry: "We Don't Landmark the Sky, But I Wish We Could"

The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to deny granting "individual landmark status" to 45-47 Park Place today, removing one of the final roadblocks to the Cordoba Initiative's plan to build a $100 million mosque and community center near Ground Zero. The commissioners' una ... 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 >>

9/11 Human Remains Found at Fresh Kills Landfill, City Says

Several news outlets are reporting that the city has found twenty potentially human remains in the former Fresh Kills landfill, while sifting through debris dumped there from the World Trade Center. The Staten Island Advance notes that the discovery of the remains was made public "in a one-line em ... 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 >>

Times Holds Logo Design Competition for Renamed, Imaginary Building

To celebrate the name change of the Freedom Tower to 1 World Trade Center, the Times invites "the designers among you -- amateur and pro" to "consider drawing up a hypothetical logo proposal for the new building," which may get built sometime during our children's lifetimes. We sent them this. We ... More >>

9/11 Museum, Memorial Plans Unveiled

Rudy's Pants On Fire

Secret testimony shows that Rudy's stump speech is inflated, at best

Clearing the Air

Sorting solid claims about the 9/11 toxic cloud from the obscuring haze of uncertainty

This Is Your Brain On 9/11

Feeling jumpy? Could be that building you watched fall

Letters

The Haze Over 43rd Street

Will the New York Times ever own up to the failures of its early ground zero health coverage?

Reprint: Terror Attack

An eyewitness account of 9-11

Reprint: City of Ghosts

100 minutes of tragedy that will haunt us all

Letters

Your Turn: Ground Zero Stories?

Letters

Letters

Still Dusted

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

Open and Shut

Four years later, we still have ten big questions

Terror Attack

'Protocols of Zion'

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

Rudy to the Rescue

Katrina stuns, Bush stumbles—time to call the master of disaster

Dusted

Long after 9-11, some people say the dust is still making them sick. Now they want the EPA to do something about it.

Close-Up on Battery Park City

The Fire Next Time

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

Everything Is Interrogated

Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer on 9-11, a Jay-Z sample, and the lowercase virtues of fiction

Burning for Bush

Misled over air quality, shortchanged in federal funding, union wants four more years

Twin Twisters

Pataki and Giuliani rewrite 9-11 history to bolster Bush, prepare for their 2008 race