Archive for the 'World Trade Center' Category

One World Trade Center becomes New York's tallest skyscraper

With the installation of a girder on the 100th floor, the One World Trade Center has become the tallest building in New York. Currently standing at 1271. [Updated at 2:10 p.m. ET] More than a decade after a terrorist attack brought down New York's twin towers, their under-construction replacement became the city's tallest building on [...]

Kovalcin moving on from tragedy

BY NANCY SHARER (REVIEW CORRESPONDENT) Photo submitted Jeremy Skillings and his family pose for a photo on top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, in about 2000. Behind them is the South Tower. From left are Jeremy; his mother, Mary Skillings September 10, 2011 USS New York: An Enduring Reminder of the [...]

Some 9/11 anniversary events in New York City on Sunday

Significant numbers of New York's finest surrounding the World Trade Center site. Port Authority Police guarding the path train to New Jersey. The subway adjoining ground zero bustling with riders, one telling us she has to take the subway or she can't New York firefighters listen to the roll call of the firefighters who died [...]

Readers Remember: Twin Towers

11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center marked New York's Lower Manhattan as a financial capital, a place to earn a living, the center of commerce. By Mark Lennihan, AP The Brooklyn Bridge, foreground, and the lower Manhattan skyline, Comprehensive listing of rumors, hoaxes, and urban legends surrounding the terrorist attacks of [...]

The view from One WTC

Respiratory illnesses and post-traumatic stress disorder are known to be increased in those who survived the World Trade Center disaster, but data reported in this issue show that 9 years after the attacks, rescue and recovery As the 10th anniversary of 9-11 approaches, a new report shows a possible connection between firefighters who worked at [...]