Skyscraper near ground zero to come down
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Work will begin Friday to dismantle a vacant, contaminated skyscraper that has loomed above ground zero since Sept. 11, 2001, when one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed into it, officials said Thursday.
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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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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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Should New York take a cue from the original ground zero?
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All the papers focus this morning on the accident at the Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street on Thursday afternoon that injured two firefighters. It came on the same day as the funeral of Joseph Graffagnino, 33, one of two firefighters who died in the fire at the tower on Saturday. A worker lost control [...].
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About 420 people will be laid off, with most of the cuts coming in New York. International offices will also close.
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Most of the action in Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," Hollywood's first look at the terrorist attacks that destroyed two of the world's tallest buildings, takes place far below the surface.
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Lessons learned in a deadly 2003 high-rise fire may have saved lives this week when a fire broke out on the 29th floor of a downtown skyscraper, fire officials said Tuesday.
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The designs for three glass towers at ground zero illustrate how low our expectations have sunk since the city first resolved to rebuild there.
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The Belfast skyline is set to change forever with the demolition of  three of the city's tallest chimneys.
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A public market on the edge of Williamsburg may be forced to close by June if the city moves forward with a plan to demolish the building and replace it with housing.
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Plans to build the Freedom Tower and   three other skyscrapers at Ground Zero were formally approved   on Thursday in a deal that would see the former World Trade   Center site rebuilt by 2012.
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Part of a roof collapsed at a luxury high-rise building under construction Thursday, hospitalizing three workers. Ten more were seen at area hospitals as a precaution or for treatment.
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The first 25-ton steel column for the new Freedom Tower was installed Tuesday at ground zero, another milestone in prolonged efforts to build a new office tower to replace the World Trade Center.
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The memorial honoring World Trade Center victims will include a forest of oak trees with a clearing for Sept. 11 gatherings and a Memorial Hall between the twin reflecting pools that will mark the footprints of the lost towers, officials announced Thursday.
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Plans for a London building designed by Zaha Hadid have been dropped as a result of the credit crunch that began with the subprime mortgage collapse.
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Tour the safety features designed into the new tower and see more ground zero buildings slated for 2012.