Few Visit Ground Zero in N.Y. as Convention Begins
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As the Republican convention opened  less than four miles away, a small number of visitors to Ground  Zero paid their respects on Monday with mixed feelings about  whether President Bush should come to the site of the Sept. 11,  2001 attacks.
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Activists, including U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, put fresh pressure on New York City on Friday to compensate Ground Zero workers following the first confirmed death from inhaling the dust of the World Trade Center wreckage.
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Most of the 70,000 people who worked or lived near Ground Zero suffered from wheezing, shortness of breath or coughing spells after the 2001 terror attack, a report released Monday shows.
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NEW YORK - The view of ground zero just got a little smaller. The agency that oversaw the redesign of the World Trade Center site on Thursday stopped posting on its Web site hourly images from a camera pointed at ground zero.
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Diane Swonk was in the ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in the World Trade Center when the first plane hit. &quot;At first, we thought it was an explosion,&quot; said Swonk, an Evanston resident who was at Ground Zero on Sept.
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Playbill - Don't expect Broadway producers to strike up the band for the arrival of the Republican National Convention, which will inhabit Madison Square Garden and many Manhattan hotels beginning Aug. 30. What was once thought by many  as a potential boon to box-office business is now widely accepted by Times Square cognoscenti as a coming neutron bomb, destined to leave midtown free of human traffic.
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Echoes of 9/11 linger, but conventioneers will find a resilience bred through time.
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America is are preparing readied to observe the third anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. In New York, a ceremony at Ground Zero will featuring parents and grandparents reading the names of the 2,749 victims of the attack.
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President George W. Bush made a   pilgrimage to New York's Ground Zero on Sunday on the eve of   the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a milestone   that has sharpened an election-year debate over whether America   is safer.
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The Republican National Convention, which will nominate President Bush in hopes of another four-year term in office, opens in New York Monday.
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Workers from the Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center have signed a lease to create the city's first employee-run restaurant &#151; only a walk from ground zero.
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The brokerageâs move would be a blow to downtown and its supporters in Albany, including Gov. Eliot Spitzer, and it would hobble efforts to re-establish ground zero as a financial center.
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NEW YORK - Republicans belittled Democratic Sen. John Kerry as a shift-in-the-wind campaigner unworthy of the White House on Monday, opening their national convention four miles from Ground Zero of America's worst terrorist attack...
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For the first time, a picture has emerged of what pedestrians can expect to see five years from now along the Greenwich Street side of the World Trade Center memorial.
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Hundreds of people who lost relatives on Sept. 11 gathered Saturday at the site where the World Trade Center towers collapsed to commemorate the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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Voters are lining up behind Rudolph Giuliani, who became "America's mayor" on Sept 11, 2001. But many New Yorkers remember the mayor before that day with less affection.
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Victims' families huddled under umbrellas Tuesday in a park to mark the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the first remembrance ceremony not held at ground zero, an event that failed to evoke the same emotions as the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center site.