Freedom Tower

A Building

Tom Butta | Posted 05.09.2012

Tom Butta

You have a choice. Remain as you are. And stay how you've been. Or courageously commit to aggressively building a bigger, better and bolder future for yourself and your organization.

One World Trade Center Becomes NYC's Tallest Skyscraper

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 04.30.2012

NEW YORK — One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of N...

With An Asterisk, WTC Will Be Tallest Building In US

AP/The Huffington Post | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 04.30.2012

NEW YORK — One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, can now claim the ti...

All Aboard! More Free Routes Added To City Trolley

Posted 05.09.2012

Miami's baby trolley system is growing up, with the addition of downtown route. Friday morning, with a ceremonious ribbon cutting ceremony by Miami...

Naked, With Flag

Alexander Goerlach | Posted 11.16.2011

Alexander Goerlach

The German chancellor Gerhard Schröder said on September 11 that our common values had come under terrorist attack. What did he mean?

WATCH: 1 World Trade Center Time-Lapse

Posted 11.10.2011

We've put together a comprehensive, interactive timeline of how Ground Zero became what it is today, with all the cleanup, redesigns, harsh critiques ...

TIMELINE: Ten Years At 'Ground Zero'

The Huffington Post | Jonah Green and Christopher Mathias | Posted 11.09.2011

Before it was ground zero, it was the World Trade Center. But after the attacks of September 11th, the site become a smoldering pile of twisted metal ...

Let's Cancel 9/11

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.08.2011

Tom Engelhardt

The uses of 9/11 in the decade since have added up to a profile in cowardice, not courage, and if we let it be used that way in the next decade, we will go down in history as a nation of cowards.

PHOTOS: Ground Zero's Ten-Year Resurgence

Posted 10.09.2011

Ground zero is a ghost town no more. Following the attacks of September 11th, a pall fell over the site as New Yorkers who witnessed the atrocities...

Port Authority Spent $10M On WTC's Failed Glass Facade

AP | KAREN ZRAICK | Posted 07.12.2011

NEW YORK — The owners of the World Trade Center have nixed plans to cover the first 20 stories of its signature skyscraper with decorative glass...

Obama at Ground Zero: Emotion, Memories (And Some Embarrassment for New York)

Dan Collins | Posted 07.04.2011

Dan Collins

Nearly ten years after terrorists smashed planes into Lower Manhattan, the most optimistic thing you can say about the rebuilding of the World Trade Center is that it's a work in progress.

WATCH: Time-Lapse Rendering Of New WTC Tower

Posted 05.25.2011

The highly-anticipated One World Trade Center building at ground zero, formerly dubbed The Freedom Tower, reached its halfway point at 52 stories a f...

Who Will Fill 1 WTC?

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The quest for tenants to fill office space at the World Trade Center site's signature skyscraper has gone global – all the way ...

600 Police To Guard World Trade Center Site

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the area around the World Trade Center will eventually have 673 officers a...

Toxic Deutsche Bank Building Finally Coming Down

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The contaminated bank tower stood shrouded in black netting for years over ground zero, filled with toxic dust and the remains of 9/1...

New Animation Shows Future WTC

Posted 05.25.2011

The New York Post obtained new animation of what the new World Trade Center will look like, and envisions how the soaring, silver tower will actua...

Philippe Petit Will Not Tightrope-Walk The Freedom Tower (VIDEO)

| Ross Kenneth Urken | Posted 05.25.2011

Philippe Petit, the high-wire artist most famous for tight-rope walking between the Twin Towers in 1974 (the subject of the movie "Man on Wire"), ...

One World Trade Center Reaches Halfway Mark

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Steel construction has reached the halfway point for 1 World Trade Center, the building also known as the Freedom Tower. After years...

In Your Face, Chicago!

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011

Chicago may soon lose bragging rights as home to the tallest building U.S., making way for New York City to claim the prize. That distinction curre...

Joe Nocera Thinks They Shouldn't Build 1 WTC

New York Observer | New York Observer | Posted 05.25.2011

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It has been a banner year for 1 World Trade Center. Now that construction has risen above street level and continues ever higher at a brisk cl...

$100 Million For Ground Zero Theater

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A performing arts center envisioned as one of the jewels of a rebuilt World Trade Center is at last getting a major funding boost. S...

Some Grunts From a Grumpy Guy

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Sherman Yellen

My nephew, John McNamara, a fireman who worked at Ground Zero, died one year ago as a result of illnesses caused by that cleanup, leaving his wife and three-year-old son.

Build the Mosque on Ground Zero

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Kelly

Everyone who hates America is going to get up in the morning thinking of knocking the Freedom Tower down. The only thing that might deter them? The risk that their target could fall over and hit a mosque.

Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Have a Lot of Work to Do

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Bob Cesca

If Newt, Sarah and Glenn were truly so driven to maintain the sacred purity of American "hallowed ground," they can start by campaigning for the removal of the General Robert E. Lee statue of Gettysburg.

The Mayor's New Right Hand Man

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

John Petro

Stephen Goldsmith's red state politics stand out in a city of true-blue Democrats, and his appointment is a clear indication that Bloomberg will make belt-tightening a key component of his third term.