Ground Zero

Prince Harry Arrives In NY, Visits Ground Zero

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 06.29.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Prince Harry bowed his head in prayer at ground zero Friday "in admiration of the courage shown by the people of this great city" _ a...

Ground Zero Emergency Drill Staged By 800 Responders

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 06.17.2009 | Home


NEW YORK — It was an emergency drill, yet the scene of hundreds of firefighters, police officers and other first responders hustling around the ...

Taxing THC: Turning Old New York into New New Amsterdam

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy


Warren Holstein

Bollocks! How is that California, the crossroads of implants, spray tans and superficiality, has a leg up on the Empire State, on the possible legalization and taxation of Cannabis sativa?

Freedom Tower: Screw the Name, Just Build it Already

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics


John Wellington Ennis

Quite honestly, the most patriotic thing to do would have been to rebuild immediately on the WTC site to hurry up and start turning a profit again, as a capitalist "screw you" to religious fundamentalists.

Freedom Tower Loses Its Name

New York Post | Posted 04.26.2009 | Home


Freedom is so passe at Ground Zero. Once hailed as a beacon of rebirth in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Freedom Tower's patriot...

Ground Zero Rents Cut

New York Daily News | Robert Gearty | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business


Facing a rough real estate market, the Port Authority will cut tenants of the Freedom Tower and the other towers at Ground Zero a rent break. The aut...

Pentagon 9/11 Memorial: Making Beauty Out of Ugly Things

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.25.2008 | Living


Cathleen Falsani

I made the short journey to the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., to visit the 9/11 memorial honoring 184 people who died here when terrorists crashed American Airlines Flight 77.

Obama And McCain Together At Ground Zero (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama and John McCain met today at Ground Zero on the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Watch a clip of them greeting one another and then proceedin...

McCain, Obama plan joint stop at Ground Zero

AP | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mar...

Ground Zero Developer Offers To Redesign Building For Merrill Lynch: Why It Might And Might Not Happen

Posted 06.04.2008 | Business


The AP's Amy Westfeldt reports on the attempts to lure Merrill Lynch to the World Trade Center: Dangling millions of dollars — sometimes billio...

Pope concludes US trip with Mass at Yankee Stadium in Bronx

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home


NEW YORK — Pope Benedict XVI arrived in storied Yankee Stadium on Sunday for his final Mass in America, cheered by a joyous crowd after making a...

NYC Denies Iranian President's Request To Visit Ground Zero

New York Sun | SARAH GARLAND | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


New York City, moving swiftly in the face of outrage from the White House to the political hustings to the Jewish community, is rejecting a request by...