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"Pathetic PA digs itself in deeper," NY Post (Steve Cuozzo) October 3, 2008.
"New Timetable Puts 9/11 Memorial on Track for 2011," New York Times (Charles Bagli) October 2, 2008.
"Firm gets World Trade Center gold," NY Daily News (D. Feiden and G. Smith) September 28, 2008.
"Beware this boondoggle," NY Daily News editorial, September 27, 2008.
"Fate of the Calatrava Terminal Is Still Hanging (See comment #36)," New York Times (David Dunlap) September 17, 2008.
"9/11 survivors describe escapes for safer skyscraper construction," Scientific American (L. Greenemeier) September 11, 2008.
"Latest Design Is Unveiled for 9/11 Museum," New York Times (David Dunlap) September 9, 2008.
"Police ask for more security at Ground Zero," Security Director News, August 12, 2008.
"At WTC, Conflict Of Interest Concerns," New York Observer (Eliot Brown) August 5, 2008.
"World Trade Center behind schedule, over budget," Reuters (Joan Gralla) June 30, 2008.
"Freedom Tower could be sold: PA," NY Post (Steve Cuozzo) June 19, 2008.
"Deal could be the Real Thing," NY Post (Steve Cuozzo) May 20, 2008.
"Fate of planned arts center at Twin Towers site uncertain," AP (Amy Westfeldt) May 19, 2008.
"Menace on 2nd Ave," NY Post (Steve Cuozzo) May 15, 2008.
"The MTA's Construction Crisis," NY Post (Nicole Gelinas) May 15, 2008.
"Gov. Paterson wants Sachs break," NY Daily News (Kenneth Lovett) May 14, 2008.
"Port Authority's inability to rebuild quickly at WTC site will cost taxpayers," NY Daily News (Douglas Feiden) May 12, 2008.
"Transit official: WTC hub costs $3B without design changes," Associated Press (Amy Westfeldt) April 23, 2008.
"Ground Zero Money Is Sought for Penn Station," NY Sun (Peter Kiefer) April 22, 2008.
"Citing Budget Concerns, Port Authority Plans for More Modest Hub at Trade Center Site," New York Times (David Dunlap) April 16, 2008.
"Security plan for WTC means army of cops, barriers and traffic hell," NY Daily News (A. Gendar and D. Feiden) April 6, 2008.
"Mayor Proposes That Police Run Trade Center Security," New York Times (Al Baker) March 27, 2008.
"Downtown: Eliot leaves a mess," NY Post (Steve Cuozzo) March 13, 2008.
"World Trade Center reconstruction to begin," UPI, March 13, 2008.
"Subway pie-in-the-sky," NY Post editorial, March 5, 2008.
"The MTA's latest disaster," NY Post (Steve Cuozzo) February 28, 2008.
"Report raises security concerns for WTC site," Commercial Property News (Eugene Gilligan) February 25, 2008.
"Message of hope from Ground Zero," Belfast Telegraph (Linda Mckee) February 7, 2008.
"Chicago Spire global sales begin in Dublin," BYM News, February 5, 2008.
"World Trade Center building is showcase of terrorproof technologies," Christian Science Monitor (Harry Bruinius), February 4, 2008.
"Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub," NY1 News (Bobby Cuza) January 29, 2008.
"Hollywood's happiest couple in Dublin," The Irish World (Angela Sammon) January 24, 2008.
DEAD LINK "WTC Fire Probe Focuses on Contractors," Associated Press (Amy Westfeldt) January 12, 2008.
"9/11 Injury-Fund Overseer Quits," NY Post (Susan Edelman) January 9, 2008.
DEAD LINK "Javits expansion dead," Playthings, December 21, 2007.
"New York Spends $1M on Criminal Lawyer Fees for WTC Fire," Lawyers747.com, November 8, 2007.
"Deutsche Demolition Derby," NY Post (Chuck Bennett) October 16, 2007.
"An Escape Plan Stayed Hidden at a Fatal Fire," New York Times (Al Baker and W. Rashbaum) October 3, 2007.
"Workers Cut Standpipe, Inquiry Finds," New York Times (W. Rashbaum and C. Bagli) September 27, 2007.
"2 Govs Ignored Deutsche Warning," NY Post (Chuck Bennett) September 26, 2007.
* C. Maikish letters to officials about Deutsche Bank safety, part 1
* C. Maikish letters to officials about Deutsche Bank safety, part 2
* C. Maikish letters to officials about Deutsche Bank safety, part 3
"What We Saw," Huffington Post (Brian Williams) September 13, 2007.
"New York's Deutsche Bank fire deaths," World Socialist Web Site (Clare Hurley) September 6, 2007.
"FDNY Cover-Up?," WCBS-TV (Marcia Kramer) September 5, 2007.
"Trident True Symbol," NY Post (Tom Topousis) September 4, 2007.
"After Warning, Contractor Got Bank Tower Job," New York Times (W. Rashbaum and C. Bagli) August 25, 2007.
"The Steel," Esquire (Scott Raab) June 26, 2007.
"On Rethinking the Javits Center," New York Times editorial, April 15, 2007.
"Spitzer Makes Switch Official: He Supports Freedom Tower," New York Times (Nicholas Confessore) February 21, 2007.
"A Tower That Sends a Message of Anxiety, Not Ambition," New York Times (Nicolai Ouroussoff) February 19, 2007.
"Questions pile up Downtown as flow of info slows," Downtown Express (Josh Rogers) February 16, 2007.
"Freedom From Fear," New York Times (Guy Nordenson) February 16, 2007.
"Even with $2B, rail link remains in doubt," Downtown Express (Josh Rogers) February 9, 2007.
DEAD LINK "Spitzer May Find Big New Hurdle At Ground Zero (Calatrava unaffordable)," New York Sun (David Lombino) February 2, 2007.
"A Memorial in Name Only...Is No Memorial at All," Save The 911 Memorial Foundation, January 24, 2007.
"Keep the Steel Rising," Wall Street Journal (Endorsement of Freedom Tower) by Brian Carney, January 3, 2007.
"How To Honor Victims: Put It in Writing," LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, New York Post, December 20, 2006.
"As Pataki Prepares to Step Down, Two Columns Rise at Ground Zero," New York Times (David Dunlap) December 19, 2006.
"Spitzer Names Port Authority Head and Fills 11 Other Top Positions," New York Times (P. Healy and W. Neuman) December 16, 2006.
"Plan Is Changed for Arranging Names on Trade Center Memorial," New York Times (David Dunlap) December 14, 2006.
"At New Trade Center, Seeking Lively (but Secure) Streets," New York Times (David Dunlap) December 7, 2006.
"The Hole in the City's Heart," New York Times (Deborah Sontag, C. Levy, and J. Nordberg) September 11, 2006.
"Ground Zero Minus Magnificence," Forbes (Peter Slatin) September 12, 2006.
"At Ground Zero, Towers for Forgetting," New York Times (Nicolai Ouroussoff) September 11, 2006.
"Lessons of 9/11 Alter Skyscraper Design," AP (David Caruso) September 6, 2006.
"Absence of Meaning," NY Daily News (Patricia Reilly and Anthony Gardner) August 24, 2006.
"Ground Zero Memorial Construction To Recommence," WCBS - TV New York, August 3, 2006.
"Arts Funds in Limbo Downtown After Demise of Lower Manhattan Development Agency," NY Times (Robin Pogrebin) August 1, 2006.
"Structural Transition at Ground Zero," Architectural Record (Nadine Post) July 27, 2006.
"Candidates' Answers to Questions on Rebuilding Lower Manhattan," New York Times, July 26, 2006.
"9/11 Rebuilding Agency Prepares to Shut Down," New York Times (David Dunlap) July 25, 2006.
"Engineers Seek What's Left of WTC Facade," Associated Press (Amy Westfeldt) July 20, 2006.
"Pessimism Is Growing on Rebuilding of 9/11 Site," New York Times (David Dunlap) July 8, 2006.
"New NYC Freedom Tower Has Lighted Spire," AP (Amy Westfeldt) June 28, 2006.
"WTC Officials Face Admission-Fee Friction," AP (Verena Dobnik) June 24, 2006.
"Cornerstone Removed From Ground Zero," New York Times (David Dunlap) June 23, 2006.
"The Ground Zero Memorial, Revised but Not Improved ," New York Times (Nicolai Ouroussoff) June 22, 2006.
"New Plan Unveiled for W.T.C. Memorial," New York Times (David Dunlap and Charles Bagli) June 20, 2006.
DEAD LINK "Memorial designer: Let falls go," New York Daily News (Adam Lisberg and Paul Colford) May 15, 2006.
"Cost and Safety put Memorial's Striking Vision at Risk," New York Times (David Dunlap) May 11, 2006.
"Time to start over," New York Daily News (Michael Goodwin) May 7, 2006.
"...And Rethinking the Memorial," New York Post editorial, March 31, 2006.
"Anxiety in Albany over WTC," New York Daily News (Paul Colford) March 12, 2006.
DEAD LINK "Trampling on history," New York Daily News (Anthony Gardner and Robert Kornfeld) March 11, 2006.
The World Trade Center: Tower of Babel," The Economist, March 9, 2006.
"As Construction Nears, Protest Grows Over World Trade Center Memorial," Architectural Record (Sam Lubell) March 3, 2006.
"Preservation group: Delay WTC memorial," New York Daily News (Paul Colford) March 1, 2006.
"Sept. 11 families, unions say WTC memorial should be above ground," New York Newsday AP (Amy Westfeldt) February 27, 2006.
" A Blueprint For Conflict At Ground Zero," The New York Times (Charles Bagli) February 19, 2006.
"Memorial Pools Will Not Quite Fill Twin Footprints," The New York Times (David Dunlap) December 15, 2005.
"W.T.C. memorial official: Waterfalls will close in winter," Downtown Express (Ronda Kaysen) December 9, 2005.
"H. Belton, 68, architect who proposed new Twin Towers, dies," New York Newsday (James T. Madore) December 1, 2005.
"It Stinks," New York Post (Steve Cuozzo) November 28, 2005.
"WTC Memorial Architectural and Engineering Fees Exceed 25 Percent of Cost," (link obsolete) 911memorials.org, November 23, 2005.
"Rudy's Thumb Down," New York Post (Jennie Leszkiewicz, Fredric Dicker and Leonard Greene) September 26, 2005.
"Hillary Comes Out Against Freedom Center," New York Post (Deborah Orin) September 24, 2005.
"Changes for the worse at the Freedom Tower ," Downtown Express (David Stanke) July 15, 2005.
"New York's Freedom Tower fails to live up to its lofty name," San Francisco Chronicle (John King) July 7, 2005.
"Let the Man [Trump] Make It Happen," Forbes Magazine (Steve Forbes) July 4, 2005.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, "Taking the Measure of the New Freedom Tower," NY Times, July 1, 2005.
"New York unveils redesigned Freedom Tower," Associated Press, June 29, 2005.
"New York Times OP-ED: Build It Again," NY Times (Greg Manning) June 12, 2005.
"Zero at Ground Zero," City Journal (Steven Malanga) Summer 2005.
DEAD LINK "Well done, Donald," Radar blog (Dominic Knight) May 19, 2005.
"Trump pushes own Ground Zero plan," CNN (Phil Hirschkorn) May 19, 2005.
"Trump Card," National Review (Deroy Murdoch) May 18, 2005.
Associated Press, "Trump Sounds Off on World Trade Center," at a press conference in the Trump Tower lobby, May 18, 2005. Covered widely in the media.
"The PA & Pataki's Pit," George Marlin (former executive director of the Port Authority) May 8, 2005.
DEAD LINK "9/11 kin rip WTC plans: Demand that gov disband LMDC," NY Daily News (J. Lynch and A. Gardner) May 7, 2005.
MSNBC (David Shuster) Hardblogger:
- "WTC: The shame continues," May 3, 2005.
- "America's Freedom Tower politics," March 11, 2005.
- "Rebuild the Twin Towers," February 25, 2005.
- "America's Freedom Tower?," February 22, 2005.
"Rebuild the Towers," New York Post (Nicole Gelinas) April 7, 2005.
"Should the World Trade Center be rebuilt?" The New Criterion (James Panero) March 16, 2005.
"Bring Back The Twin Towers," NY Sun (John Avalon) March 11, 2005.
"What Are We Afraid of ?" National Review (Deroy Murdock) March 11, 2005.
"New WTC design 'not a done deal'," Camden Chronicle Independent (Martin Cahn) September 24, 2004.
"Sacred Ground," PBS transcript, September 6, 2004.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, "Libeskind's 'Genius': The Talent To Sue," NY Post, July 20, 2004.
LMDC SPECIAL UPDATE, "Freedom Tower's cornerstone laid," July 4, 2004.
"Tower Power," Guardian Unlimited, June 11, 2004.
"Towering Ambition," TimeOut New York (Howard Halle) June 3, 2004.
DEAD LINK "A 'powerful' icon urged for WTC site," NY Daily News (Michael Saul) June 3, 2004.
"World Trade sellouts," NY Post (Nicole Gelinas) May 18, 2004.
"Absence Versus Presence: The 9/11 Memorial Design," Sculpture Magazine (Harriet Senie) May, 2004. Rudy Giuliani suggests that the memorial committee should declare a failed search and begin again.
"Team designing and promoting new design for World Trade Center," Architectural Record (Sam Lubell) March 10, 2004.
"Twins Rise Again," National Review (Deroy Murdock) March 4, 2004.
"Jury Selects "Reflecting Absence" For WTC Memorial," NY1 News, January 6, 2004.
"Freedom Tower to rise 1,776 feet from ashes," CNN (Phil Hirschkorn) December 20, 2003.
"Surplus History From Ground Zero Rusts in a Hangar," New York Times (Eric Lipton) December 19, 2003.
"The Eight 9/11 Memorial Designs," Gotham Gazette (Joshua Brustein) November 24, 2003.
"Ground Zero: The Site," New York Times (Edward Wyatt) September 13, 2003.
"Shred the Libeskind Blueprints," National Review (Deroy Murdock) June 30, 2003.
"World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition submission," Kenneth Gardner, May 29, 2003.
"Ground Zero Memorial Competition Launched," A1Architect Industry News, May, 2003. The WTC Memorial jury will select up to eight finalists, who will receive over $100,000 each to refine their designs.
"Studio Daniel Libeskind," Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
"Pataki outlines timeline for WTC site," Architectural Record (David Sokol) April 28, 2003.
"Rebuild the Old Twin Towers," Business Week (Gary Weiss) December 20, 2002.
"WTC rebuild needs your input, or outcome will be a disaster," PhoenixUSA.org (Eli Attia) September 1, 2002.
"Ground Zero Proposals Ignore Important Facts," Real Estate Journal (Ada Huxtable) August 12, 2002.
"At Hearing, A Resolve To Rebuild Twin Towers," New York Times (Edward Wyatt) May 26, 2002.
"WTC Plans Should Reach the Stars," New York Newsday (Eli Attia) May 20, 2002.
"Rebuild the towers or not?," DowntownNYC.org (discussion) May 20, 2002.
"Something's in the Air," The Indypendent (Mike Burke) March, 2002.
"WTC wall may become part of memorial," CNN, Sept. 26, 2001.
"Rebuilding The World Trade Center," Popular Mechanics, Sept. issue, 2001.
"The Twin Towers: Should They Be Rebuilt?," Time (Michael Lemonick) Sept. 16, 2001.

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