NEW YORK (AP).- After nearly nine years, life is returning to ground zero in a tangible way. Sixteen swamp white oaks arriving Saturday are the first of nearly 400 trees that will be planted at the World Trade Center site, where more than 2,700 people …
Tangible Signs of Life to Arrive at 9/11 Memorial in New York
NEW YORK (AP).- After nearly nine years, life is returning to ground zero in a tangible way. Sixteen swamp white oaks arriving Saturday are the first of nearly 400 trees that will be planted at the World Trade Center site, where more than 2,700 people …
Mosque Developer Claims a Classic NYC Background
NEW YORK (AP).- Eight years ago, Sharif El-Gamal was just another ambitious striver from Brooklyn, casting about for career leads and dreaming of a grander future in real estate. A handful of modest deals later, he’s sitting on one of the most politica…
9/11 Museum Going Up in New York City Offers Raw Experience
NEW YORK (AP).- The Sept. 11 museum is taking shape 70 feet below ground, a cavernous space that provides an emotionally raw journey and ends at bedrock where huge surviving remnants and spacial voids reveal the scale of the devastation of what once wa…
9/11 Memorial Preview Site Reaches One Millionth Visitor
NEW YORK, NY.- The National September 11 Memorial & Museum welcomed its one millionth visitor to the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, a space devoted to educating the public about the Memorial and Museum under construction at the World Trade Center site. Th…
Workers in New York City Begin to Dismantle Ground Zero Ship
NEW YORK (AP).- Plank by plank, archeologists on Monday began the delicate process of dismantling a section of an 18th century ship that was found buried across the street from the World Trade Center site. Each plank will be freeze-dried so that the fr…
Ancient Buried Ship Hull Under World Trade Center Site in New York
NEW YORK (AP).- The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago — landfill
to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it
re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that
popped up fr…
Ancient Buried Ship Hull Under World Trade Center Site in New York
NEW YORK (AP).- The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago — landfill
to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it
re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that
popped up fr…
Experts Work to Free Buried Ship Hull at World Trade Center Site in New York
NEW YORK (AP).- The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago — landfill to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that popped up from the m…
Architect Adam Reed Tucker Trades in Bricks and Mortar for Plastic
WASHINGTON, DC.- Using the LEGO® brick as his medium, architectural artist Adam Reed Tucker has given some of the world’s most iconic landmarks an unexpected makeover. His towering interpretations, which soar up to 18 feet high, will be the cente…