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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 >>

Port Authority Plans on Military-Grade Security for the World Trade Center Site

Wikimedia Commons​After an audit found that the Port Authority was nearly $2 billion overbudget, the New York Post went digging and discovered that the PA has elaborate, high-tech security plans for protecting the redesigned World Trade Center site. Maybe that's where all the money is going! ... More >>

Live: Don Fleming And The Folding Men "Remember" September 11

Brad Cohan​ Don Fleming and the Folding Men Mercury Lounge Sunday, September 11 Better Than: Watching Terrorist Motherfuckers Destroy The World Trade Center As Don Fleming told the Voice recently, the Velvet Monkeys/Gumball/B.A.L.L./Half Japanese dude and superproducer moved to NYC in 1986 ... More >>

You Can Now Buy a 9/11 Memorial Flag to Help You Remember 9/11

​Guess what? You can now buy an "official 9/11 Memorial Flag," which will surely satisfy you in the case that you were looking for exactly such a flag to buy. Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the existence of the flag, which will be flown at the State Capitol and at the entrance of the Nati ... More >>

NYPD Moves 200 Officers Out Of Higher Crime Areas To Staff World Trade Center; Nabes Screwed Again

​The 206 police officers transferred last week to the new World Trade Center Command are coming largely from higher crime precincts outside of tourist-heavy, monied southern Manhattan, documents show. Just three cops are coming from the lower Manhattan's 1st Precinct, which includes the trade ... More >>

9/11 Augmented Reality App Lets You Put the Twin Towers Anywhere You Remember Them

​Brian August is a guy who believes in stories. For nearly 10 years, he has been mulling the creation of 110 Stories, a project that would bring together the collective memories of anyone who'd ever gazed out upon the World Trade Center from as far away as Jersey and Connecticut, as well as fr ... 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 >>

Barack Obama Will Visit Ground Zero on Thursday

​President Barack Obama will be in New York City on Thursday to visit Ground Zero, where Osama Bin Laden's September 11 attack brought down the World Trade Center towers almost ten years ago. Though no schedule for the trip has been announced, New York 1 confirms that Obama will meet with fami ... More >>

Q&A: Incarcerated Rapper Max B on His 40-Year Jail Sentence and His New Record Vigilante Season

"They found me guilty as an accomplice to murder and a co-conspirator for felony murder and robbery, which they had no proof of whatsoever." Max B is talking on the phone from Bergen County Prison in New Jersey, where he's serving out a 40-year sentence for these charges. The offenses relate to an ... More >>

Windows on the World Will Not Be Resurrected in the Freedom Tower

​Although the Freedom Tower is now home to the world's highest-altitude Subway, it will not get a brand-new version of Windows on the World.

An Oyster Bar and Restaurants Are Coming to Pier A

Pier A, seen a few years ago.​Although the Freedom Tower won't be getting a Windows on the World redux, its surrounding neighborhood will be getting a new oyster bar.

City Has Not Planned for People to Actually Visit the 9/11 Memorial

Rendering of Memorial, via ​It's been almost 10 years since the World Trade Center attacks, and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum will finally open this fall. Which is great, except that now there's this looming problem of people (or, let's call them "tourists") wanting to, you kno ... More >>

9/11 Workers' Settlement Suit Is Finally Almost Over

​The New York Times is reporting that the 9/11 workers who sued the city over health damages they suffered during Ground Zero rescue and recovery efforts have finally agreed to accept a $625 million settlement from the city after years of negotiations and delays.

10 NYC Hotels Better Fitted for Charlie Sheen to Do Blow in Than the Plaza

​Home Alone 2. North by Northwest. Crocodile Dundee. Arthur. Eloise and her motherfucking Pet Turtle!* New York City's landmark The Plaza Hotel has been home to many famous scenes over its 103-year history. Yet Charlie Sheen has managed to sully it, as it is now also home to the famous scene that ... More >>

THIS SHIP HAS SAILED

And it still has life more than 200 years later

Some Humor, Some Solemnity, Some Stupidity on September 11th

​Emotions abound every year on September 11th, nowhere as strongly as New York City, of course, where some remember the dark day and must simply grieve. Others choose to laugh or have a birthday party. Many run the gamut; it's all welcomed and acceptable, unless you're an intolerant idiot, man ... More >>

So Much For that Giant Settlement With Ground Zero Workers

​Last Monday, to great fanfare, the city announced a settlement had been reached with ailing Ground Zero workers after some six years of litigation. The settlement would have provided up to $657.5 million for the medical expenses of people who labored at the World Trade Center site following t ... More >>

Bloomberg calls fire at 9/11 chapel arson

​The FDNY are saying that a fire in the Memorial Park where unidentified remains of 9/11 victims are stored was deliberately set, an act Mayor Bloomberg calls "craven and contemptible." The remains are being temporarily stored in a weatherproof tent near the Medical Examiner's office while a ... More >>

9/11: More Signs that a Museum Will Be a Whitewash

Voice cover photograph by Andre Souroujon, 2001​This morning, the city will stop to remember the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks for the eighth time. Once again, relatives of the slain will journey to Ground Zero and the names will be read and public officials will utter condolences in lofty ver ... More >>

Mayor Wants Ground Zero Summit

Mayor Bloomberg is sick of this lollygagging at Ground Zero, and he wants a sitdown with developer Larry Silverstein -- and the governors of New York and New Jersey, who share responsbibility for the Port Authority ,which owns the site -- to git 'r done. Sheldon Silver also wants action: "I am fe ... More >>

Real Dives: Smolen Bar and Grill

Real Dives: In which we recommend authentically divey dive bars. A real dive bar may be characterized by low prices, clientele over 60, trucker hats only on actual truckers, a long history, lotto, lack of ironic PBR, and a sense that it is not trying to impress you, or anyone else, ever. The kind of ... More >>

Budget Battle: Feets in the Streets Today

Organizers are predicting the year's biggest demonstration so far late this afternoon outside City Hall. The targets are service cuts being demanded by both Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson in their respective budgets. Big turnout is expected from the teachers union, SEIU locals 32BJ and 1199, ... More >>

Sarah Palin for New York Tourism

Children Exposed to 9/11 Air More Likely to Develop Asthma

Death by Dust

The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer

Hey Buddy: What Brought WTC7 Down?

City Wins in Ground Zero Case

Hillary Is Your Friend. Hillary Is Your Friend. Hillary Is--

Clinton attacks her likability problem with some of New York's toughest guys

Let Libeskind be Libeskind

Full of ghosts, ground zero's like that hotel in The Shining—and maybe that's OK

The Week in Review

Dr. Clinton Versus the Ground Zero Cough

Body of Evidence: An Anti-Corporate Doc's Catalog of Outrage

Condi's Pre-Testimony Primer

Looking ahead to Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9-11 panel

The Working Through

Karen Finley Teaches a Class on Dealing With 9-11

The Witnessing Eye

Artists Document the World Trade Center's Demise

Manhattan Project

Rebuilding Effort Could Secure City's Future as Bourgeois Playground

Labor in Mourning

Seven Months Later, Unions Raise the 9-11 Flag

Victims of the Dragnet

After 9-11, Official Terror Kicks In

Bush Gave Enron Breathing Room

White House Backed Off Banking Laws

Letters

The Reel Deal

Exhibit WTC

Dividing the Artifacts of September 11

Ground Hog

Jesse Jackson Raids the Graveyard—On Al Sharpton’s Watch

The Giuliani Dilemma

How Freddy and Mark Used Rudy to Define Themselves

Naming Names

The New York Times Blacklists 13 Writers after WTC Report

Test of the Fourth Estate

Facing Danger, Media Puts Self-Interest on Hold

A Memorial in Memorabilia

The Wailing Wall

New Yorkers Search for the Missing, One Flyer at a Time