At Ground Zero, Slow and Costly Work
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Some 80 feet below the street, workers are pushing to complete excavations for two new office towers.
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Fires and other problems made for a rough commute into the city this morning for thousands of New Jersey residents. Workers are trying to fix the problems before the evening rush.
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Thousands of sick ground zero workers need nearly $2 billion in long-term treatment for ongoing health woes, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as she offered legislation creating a long-term medical program.
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Working in the ruins of the World Trade  Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Jason Read looked up to see fellow  New York firefighters hoist a tattered and torn U.S. flag.
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By ALEX CUKAN  Residents of Lower Manhattan caught in the toxic dust cloud after the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, were told by city officials to clean their homes with a wet rag.
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A booming commercial real estate market and the need to move forward with rebuilding at ground zero changed Gov. Eliot Spitzer's mind about supporting the continued construction of the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower.
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The foundation in charge of raising money for a Sept. 11 memorial on Thursday gave control of the struggling effort to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an early critic of the most expensive memorial in U.S. history.
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In some cases, fights in Congress have slowed progress, or the U.S. government has focused on other priorities. In other cases, the cost of IT projects has been an issue.
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Hundreds of people who worked on the World Trade Center cleanup have filed a class-action lawsuit against the leaseholder of the towers and those who supervised the job, alleging they did little to protect workers from dust, asbestos and other toxins in the air.
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The Bush administration was accused of ignoring the health problems that arose among workers who toiled at ground zero and the claims of downtown residents who say they were also sickened by the dust.
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Hundreds of thousands of Manhattan commuters were forced to overcome delays or negotiate alternative routes to work.
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For many of the employees of the state and federal agencies, the memories of Sept. 11 were still too fresh to consider a return to ground zero.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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The shuttle Discoveryâs mission involves challenging construction work aboard the International Space Station.
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A fire in a signal room the size of a small studio apartment has crippled the world's longest subway line, ensuring that hundreds of thousands will endure a painfully slow commute for six months.
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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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An abrupt move by the federal government has clouded the future of a national treatment program for ground zero workers outside the metropolitan area.