New York: One World Trade Center already is New York's tallest building. And when the last pieces of its spire rise to the roof - weather permitting - the 104-floor skyscraper that replaces the fallen twin towers will be just feet from becoming the highest in the Western Hemisphere.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the spire pieces plus a steel beacon will then be lifted at a later date from the rooftop to cap the building at 1,776 feet. Installation of the 800-ton, 408-foot spire began in December, after 18 pieces were shipped from Canada and New Jersey.
The spire will serve as a world-class broadcast antenna. With the beacon at its peak to ward off aircraft, the spire will provide public transmission services for television and radio broadcast channels that were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, along with the trade center towers.
Overlooking the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the high-rise is scheduled to open for business in 2014. The tower is at the northwest corner of the site, which is well on its way to reconstruction with the 72-story 4 World Trade Center and other buildings....
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01:15 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New York: A piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the commercial airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has been discovered, wedged between two lower Manhattan buildings, police said on Friday. The piece of landing gear found in a narrow alleyway behind 51 Park Place and 50 Murray Street in Manhattan's financial district includes a "clearly visible" Boeing identification number, New...
06:26 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New York City will on Monday begin the mammoth task of sifting through the debris of buildings on the World Trade Center site to find more remains of the 9/11 terrorist attack victims that will allow more number of them to be identified. ...
05:44 PM, Apr 01, 2013
New York: Months before the 9/11 attacks, former US president George Bush had received multiple briefings by intelligence agencies warning of an "imminent" attack on US soil by al Qaeda but he did not take prompt action that could have prevented the tragedy, an op-ed in 'The New York Times' said on Wednesday. Former reporter for the news daily Kurt Eichenwald said Bush had begun to get "direct warnings" about...
10:18 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New York: Health concerns for emergency workers and a feud over financing that has stopped construction of the $1 billion Ground Zero museum, marks the eleventh year of September 11, 2001, attacks, on Tuesday. While notable progress on redevelopment of the World Trade Center has been made since early disputes over financial, design and security issues, the project remains hobbled by political battles and billions of dollars in cost overruns....
07:52 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Los Angeles: Men In Black star Will Smith is set to make his directorial debut with The Redemption Of Cain and will also be a part of the cast. The 43-year-old actor will helm as well as star in the film, which tells the story of Biblical characters Cain and his brother Abel, reported Deadline. Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve with the former committing the...
06:20 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New York: One World Trade Center, being built at the site of the fallen twin towers, surpassed the Empire State Building on Monday as the tallest building in New York. Construction crews set in place a steel horizontal beam at a height of about 1,270 feet (387 meters), topping by about 20 feet (six meters) the rooftop of the observation deck of the Empire State Building, which stands about 3...
04:08 PM, May 01, 2012
New York: A mock movie poster warns al Qaeda wants to return to New York City, but authorities say there's no evidence of an actual threat. Investigators learned about the online amateur graphic on Monday. The graphic shows that the Manhattan skyline at sunset with "Al Qaeda" in bold type followed by "Coming Soon Again in New York." Al-Qaeda has been blamed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which...
10:12 AM, Apr 04, 2012
US is already under threat on the 10th anniversary and a missive manhunt has been launched for three suspects. ...
08:37 AM, Sep 11, 2011
The hunt is on for three al Qaeda operatives out of which two are suspected to be US citizens. ...
08:22 AM, Sep 11, 2011
Washington: Summoning the nation to unity and service, US President Barack Obama paid tribute to America's resilience and the sacrifice of its war dead on Saturday as the country prepared to mark 10 long years since the horrors of 9/11. A day before the anniversary commemorations, the president made a pilgrimage to Arlington National Cemetery, strolling with his wife, Michelle, among graves filled with dead from the Afghanistan and Iraq...
07:45 AM, Sep 11, 2011
New York: Some days New Yorkers look up and remark wistfully that the sky is the same blue as on September 11, 2001. Other days they look up at the sound of an airplane, momentarily worried that it may be flying too low. New Yorkers, often characterized by outsiders as rude, if not hard-hearted, were dramatically changed by the hijacked plane attacks that felled the World Trade Center towers a...
12:03 AM, Sep 11, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States was stronger 10 years after the September 11, 2001, attacks and Americans would "carry on" despite continued threats against their safety. Marking Sunday's 10th anniversary of the "9/11" attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, Obama noted that al Qaeda's strength had been sapped by relentless US efforts in the decade since the tragedy killed nearly 3,000 people. "Thanks...
05:16 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Washington: At least two of the three men involved in a possible al qaeda plot to pull off an attack coinciding with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 are believed to be US citizens or have US traveling documents, government officials said on Friday. Their primary mission was to explode a car bomb in either New York or Washington, but if that proves impossible, they have been ordered to simply cause...
01:02 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Reporters recall the horror scenes when an American Airlines flight crashed into the Pentagon building. ...
12:10 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Washington: Undaunted by talk of a new terror threat, New Yorkers and Washingtonians wove among police armed with assault rifles and waited with varying degrees of patience at security checkpoints on Friday while intelligence officials scrambled to nail down information on a possible al qaeda strike timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Counterterrorism officials have been working around the clock to determine whether the threat is accurate,...
08:53 AM, Sep 10, 2011
While the new WTC is finally taking shape it remains to be seen how it survives in the tough economy. ...
08:26 AM, Sep 10, 2011
New Delhi: On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Steven Spielberg brings a new show about the daunting task of constructing the new, 104-storyed, World Trade Center. Being the Executive Producer of this Discovery Channel show 'Rising: Rebuilding Grond Zero', Spielberg toured the site with the workers during the making of the show. The show celebrates the grit, the drive and the audacious imagination of a wide array...
04:55 PM, Sep 09, 2011
Curators are making hard choices at the museum memorializing the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks at the site of the World Trade Center's toppled twin towers, aiming to convey the horror of the event without trespassing into ghoulishness. "We're not here to traumatize our visitors," said Alice Greenwald, director of New York's 9/11 Memorial Museum that is due to open in its underground home at the Ground Zero site next year...
02:50 PM, Sep 07, 2011
Washington: Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet on August 24 with family members of some of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks regarding the FBI inquiry into allegations surrounding Rupert Murdoch's media empire, a lawyer said on Wednesday. According to a London tabloid's story based on unidentified sources, a former New York police officer-turned-private investigator said he had been contacted by journalists from Murdoch's News of...
03:45 AM, Jul 28, 2011
