NEW YORK After months of disputes over the future of ground zero, state and city officials finally brought in the heavy equipment and began construction Thursday on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower that ...

New York City's Ground Zero, home to an unearthed 18th-century cargo ship and soon to be neighbor of a nearby mosque, has seen its fair share of radical skyscraper designs proposed by architects ...

Five years ago, developer Sharif El-Gamal found himself the target of public and political opprobrium when his company, Soho Properties, proposed building Park51, a 15-story Islamic Center and mosque ...

NEW YORK -- Every two weeks, firefighters ascend a condemned, black-shrouded skyscraper, checking carefully marked exit signs, a rebuilt water supply system and wide-open corridors. They wear ...

The memorial honors those killed on September 11, 2001, in all locations of the attack, as well as those killed on February 26, 1993, when terrorists set off a truck bomb in the basement of the World ...

Lower Manhattan is receiving a boost, as Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Spitzer are expected today to announce that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will build and occupy a skyscraper of about 50 stories at the ...

Tentative Deal Struck for 2 Towers at Ground Zero The Port Authority, government officials and the developer Larry A. Silverstein reached a tentative agreement Thursday that would allow for the ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 -- -- NEW YORK, Sept. 18 -- The chairman of the agency that owned the World Trade Center defended his decision not to ask employees to move into the proposed Freedom Tower at Ground ...

What a difference a day makes. Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris made nice Wednesday, greeting each other with a hearty handshake at a Lower Manhattan ceremony ...

• Feds fine contractors for Ground Zero hazards. The federal government fined two contractors—Bovis Lend Lease and the John Galt Corp.—that were hired to dismantle a condemned Ground Zero skyscraper.