Families file appeal over 9/11 victims’ remains Seventeen families of 9/11 victims filed an appeal on Fri., Aug. 17 against a court decision that may decide where the victims’ remains will be placed. The group disagrees with the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum’s decision to bury the unidentified remains beneath the memorial’s two reflecting [...]
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MICHAEL BURKE | At the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s monthly board meeting in June, Patrick Foye, the agency’s executive director, expressed his support for restoring the Fritz Koenig Sphere to the World Trade Center site and including it in the National Sept. 11 Memorial. “This is an artifact that survived and [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Lend Lease, the international construction company responsible for tearing down the Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St. has admitted to a massive fraud scheme amounting to several million dollars in lost funds for its clients. However, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the state-city agency that contracted Lend Lease to demolish [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Former Verizon worker Richard Dambakly toiled atop the pile at Ground Zero 12-to-16 hours a day for six months straight following the 9/11 attacks. The following year, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and underwent five months of intensive chemotherapy that sent his cancer into remission. Dambakly, now 50 and the [...]
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[media-credit name="Downtown Express photo by John Bayles " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] The reflecting pools located in the footprints of the North and South Towers are central components of the National Sept. 11 Memorial. BY HELAINA N. HOVITZ | On Monday, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and the Tribute WTC Visitor Center announced a new [...]
Continue reading …There are tragedies throughout history so immense and significant that the impact has altered the way people think about the world and the way they move within it. These tragedies have defined the generations that witnessed them and have governed the generations that followed them. On September 11, 2001 the United States of America was [...]
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BY SHELDON SILVER | I have lived in Lower Manhattan my whole life, and it is difficult to put into words my memories of what happened on that terrible day, September 11, 2001. I stood outside my building, looking up as United Airlines Flight 175 flew into the South Tower. That image is seared into [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | Whether riding the Staten Island ferry to Manhattan or driving into the city on the Long Island Expressway, one can spot a towering building under construction that, once completed, will rise above all other skyscrapers that make up the skyline. That high-rise is the future One World Trade Center, which is [...]
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BY ALINE REYNOLDS | After months of meetings, the NYC Department of Transportation has come up with a concrete plan to manage the influx of tour buses expected to arrive Downtown starting next month for the opening of the National Sept. 11th Memorial. Lower Manhattan is anticipating a notable increase in tour buses once the [...]
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