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• ground zero WTC Dig Exposes Glacial Landscape

  Construction workers digging at ground zero in lower Manhattan have uncovered a 40-foot pothole and other features carved by glaciers about 20,000 years ago.

  Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 22, 2008.

• Freedom Tower Fear WTC could be a big Zero

  With several financial giants collapsing - and others teetering - many experts wonder who will occupy the Freedom Tower and other World Trade Center skyscrapers developed by Larry Silverstein.

  Published by New York Daily News on September 21, 2008.

• lower Manhattan SUBWAY BE DAMMED

  The MTA plans to introduce similar furniture in lower Manhattan and on the Upper West Side, areas which are highly susceptible to flooding.

  Published by New York Post on September 20, 2008.

• ground zero Wall Street Church Offers Help For Worried Workers

  A few blocks from ground zero, it was one of several churches that served as beacons of solace after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

  Published by WNBC on September 20, 2008.

• lower Manhattan MTA Tests Subway Grate Benches To Prevent Flooding

  Officials say the benches will be installed at 200 places in Queens. They are also looking to install other fixtures to reduce subway flooding in lower Manhattan and the Upper West Side.

  Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 20, 2008.

• World Trade Center Garden State Date: Beer Fest Time!

  Something tells us there will be some beer there as well. And if you happen to be Irish, all the better! It's only five minutes away by train from the World Trade Center. [11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; 201.547.6921, jerseycitynj.gov]

  Published by The New York Observer on September 18, 2008.

• Lower Manhattan Silicon Alley Pioneer Late to 'Silicon Alley' Burial

  Fred Wilson helped pioneer the techie industry in New York City. He was around when some wags birthed the nickname "Silicon Alley" for that stretch of squat, rather undesirable office buildings running down and around Broadway, roughly from the Flatiron District through Lower Manhattan.

  Published by The New York Observer on September 18, 2008.

• ground zero Fate of the Calatrava Terminal Is Still Hanging

  With two weeks to go before he must make more than a dozen recommendations on how to get ground zero rebuilding on schedule and on budget, the executive director of the Port Authority said Tuesday that he had not yet solved the linchpin problem: how to build the underground mezzanine of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.

  Published by New York Times on September 17, 2008.

• Ground Zero World Trade Center site build goes on - PA

  That was the Port Authority's message Tuesday, insisting it would plow ahead with the multibillion-dollar rebuilding of Ground Zero - despite Wall Street's woes.

  Published by New York Daily News on September 17, 2008.

• Lower Manhattan Watching the Wall Street Meltdown

  Mr. Squadron sought to establish an image of himself as one committed to change in Albany, speaking repeatedly during the campaign about the need for the Legislature to operate with more openness. He emphasized that he took no money from corporations or political action committees in his campaign for the 25th district, which includes Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn.

  Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

• World Trade Center Ask About Emergency Preparedness

  He also organized medical response teams in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attack in 2001 and has had disaster management leadership experience internationally and nationally.

  Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

• lower Manhattan Bird's Nest architects design perch for New Yorkers

  Architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's $650 million, 57-story condominium featuring dramatic, cantilevered terraces is slated to begin going up in mid-October in the trendy Tribeca district in lower Manhattan.

  Published by New York Daily News on September 13, 2008.

• lower Manhattan Crack the safe and win 100G!

  At previous "Crack the Bank Vault" contests at Amalgamated branch openings in Bedford-Stuyvesant and lower Manhattan, a few hundred people tried, but no one entered the right code.

  Published by New York Daily News on September 13, 2008.

• World Trade Center Seven Years After 9/11, the Tears Keep Coming

  Tearful and often defiant, and waving large photos of some of the 2,751 people killed at the World Trade Center, hundreds of relatives and friends steeled themselves and marked the passing of another year since terrorists crashed two hijacked jets into the twin towers.

  Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

• World Trade Center A weekly recap of New York City news

  During the week of the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for abolishing the Ground Zero planning agency--the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.—and giving the city a bigger role in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site.

  Published by Crain's New York Business on September 12, 2008.

• Ground Zero ONE LAST WALK ON HALLOWED GROUND

  Relatives of 9/11 victims made their last tearful walk to the bedrock of Ground Zero yesterday to remember what Mayor Bloomberg called "the day our world was broken" on the seventh anniversary of the attacks.

  Published by New York Post on September 12, 2008.

• Ground Zero McCain and Obama call truce for Ground Zero visit

  In an extraordinary show of unity 54 days from the election, Obama and McCain shook hands and then walked down a long ramp into the depths of Ground Zero.

  Published by New York Daily News on September 12, 2008.

• ground zero Rangel's Explanation Surprises Constituents

  Just before the anniversary of 9/11, Mayor Michael Bloomberg demanded major changes at ground zero, including a new deadline for the 9/11 memorial and the disbanding of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

  Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

• World Trade Center Rangel's Explanation Surprises Constituents

  But elsewhere, recovery has eluded some New Yorkers for whom the World Trade Center towers were the crowning jewel of the vista from their apartment windows. And across the city the towers are missing from many photographs of New York, compared to their yesteryear counterparts.

  Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

• Ground Zero Mayor Seeks End of LMDC, More Control of Ground Zero

  Seeking more control over the future of ground zero, Mayor Bloomberg is calling on Governor Paterson to dismantle a federally funded agency in charge of the project and turn over its development responsibilities to the city.

  Published by New York Sun on September 11, 2008.

• World Trade Center More Asthma Among Those Near 9/11 Site

  Adults who were near the World Trade Center around the time it was attacked in 2001 have been twice as likely to develop asthma as the general population, a new study has found.

  Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

• ground zero Mayor Seeks to Disband Lower Manhattan Panel

  Mayor Michael Bloomberg demanded major changes at ground zero, including a new deadline for the 9/11 memorial and the disbanding of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

  Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

• Lower Manhattan The Towers of Memory, Before and After

  In the contemporary view, the Woolworth Building still dominates the southern end of City Hall Park. The glass tower to the right of Woolworth is 7 World Trade Center, the first new tower built near ground zero. On the other side of Woolworth is Barclay Tower, one of a growing number of residential projects that attest to Lower Manhattan’s changing character.

  Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

• World Trade Center A 9/11 Loss Some Can See From Their Window

  “Typically, what people say is, ‘What a beautiful view,’ ” said the general manager, Thomas DeMartino. From time to time, he said, guests are brought up a little short. “They say, ‘You must have had a terrific view of the World Trade Center.’ ”

  Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

• Lower Manhattan A 9/11 Loss Some Can See From Their Window

  In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Marissa Gonzalez, a corporate recruiter and writer, could not adjust. She had designed her whole fourth-floor apartment on 40th Street around the postcard-worthy outline of the Lower Manhattan skyline rising above the slope of Green-Wood Cemetery and the flats of northwest Brooklyn beyond.

  Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

• ground zero U.S., NYC mark anniversary of 9/11

  Relatives of victims killed at the World Trade Center gathered at ground zero in lower Manhattan for readings from dignitaries and a recitation of the names of the dead. Later Thursday, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were due at ground zero to pay silent respects.

  Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 11, 2008.

• ground zero GROUND ZERO TRUCE

  Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama made ground zero their common ground for one rare day, free of politics and infused with memory.

  Published by New York Post on September 11, 2008.

• ground zero SEPT. 11 'LIVES FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS'

  Relatives of victims killed at the World Trade Center gathered at ground zero in lower Manhattan for readings from dignitaries and a recitation of the names of the dead. Later Thursday, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were due at ground zero to pay silent respects.

  Published by New York Post on September 11, 2008.

• lower Manhattan FAMILIES SPUR AREA COMEBACK

  While the overall population in lower Manhattan is skyrocketing, the number of families with children is rising even faster. Last year, 25 percent of area households included kids under 18, up from 19 percent in 2004, a study by the Downtown Alliance found.

  Published by New York Post on September 11, 2008.

• Ground Zero TRAGIC TOLL ON RESCUERS

  A review of 224 death certificates so far has found 168 died of illnesses, including 94 from cancer, according to the state Health Department's WTC Responder Fatalities Investigation. Researchers have not yet analyzed whether the deaths are linked to Ground Zero.

  Published by New York Post on September 11, 2008.