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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The government has only recently begun to take a role in the care of many recovery workers who were made sick at ground zero.
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The Republican convention in New York is set to open amid tight security, after a mass protest against George Bush.
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For once, when the US Open kicks off in New York tomorrow it won&#39;t be the biggest show in town. The Republican convention, with its threatened attendant demonstrations
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK With the Republican National Convention set to kick off Monday in New York, the 15,000 credentialed journalists in town have extremely varied interests, but they seem to agree on two things: the security is tighter than at the Democratic convention in Boston, but the working conditions are better.
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As loved ones recited the names of the dead at ground zero, a wounded but resilient America paused to remember a calamitous day.
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Another New York mayor with potential presidential aspirations may be moving in on Rudy Giuliani's territory at ground zero, where he long ago staked his claim as the one who helped a city mend after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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NEW YORK -- In an election year with a tight, fiercely partisan presidential race, skeptics might wonder why the GOP is having its convention, which starts today, in New York City.
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U.S. stocks were slightly lower on  Monday as investors wary of security concerns were reluctant to  put new money into the market as the Republican Convention  opens in New York City and many took vacation ahead of the  Labor Day holiday.
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Most people in town for the Republican National Convention will never see it, or know that it's considered crucial to their safety. But tucked away in a windowless, eighth-floor room in lower Manhattan is a high-tech command center where authorities are directing a massive security effort aimed at thwarting terrorist attacks and other threats.
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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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New Yorkers are growing complacent   about safety and evacuation planning and training is the key to   the city combating another September 11-style attack or natural   disaster, experts said on Wednesday.
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Rents are up and vacancies are down to pre-Sept. 11 levels in lower Manhattan's commercial real estate market.
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Residents, workers and students who returned to Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attack say that their medical problems have largely been overlooked.
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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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Fewer international visitors are coming to the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, despite an initiative announced a year ago by top government officials.
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One wall at the new visitors center at the World Trade center site is covered with the missing-person fliers that blanketed the city in the days after the attacks. Nearby is a piece from one of the downed planes; another section holds twisted metal.