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Inside 'hero without honor' Larry Silverstein's battle to rebuild the World Trade Center after 9/11
Twenty-two years after 9/11 — and after battles with Pataki, Bloomberg and Port Authority — Larry Silverstein is closing in on the prize that long eluded him: Two World Trade Center.
St. Nicholas Church reopens for first time since 9/11 attacks
Lower Manhattan’s Saint Nicholas Church has reopened for the first time since 9/11.
Coronavirus in NY: Eerie drone footage shows desolate streets
Eerie drone footage of the city over the weekend shows it has become a shell of its former bustling, thriving self -- with avenues and sidewalks deserted and barely a...
NYC real estate Gold Brick Awards for the decade
Here are my Golden Brick Awards to celebrate the best and worst of the decade’s developments, developers and politicians. New Yorkers’ sense of history and spirit of adventure is exemplified...
Knockout-karate fights are coming to the top of the Freedom Tower
These fighters are putting the “high” in “hi-yah”! On Thursday, Karate Combat, the first professional full-contact karate league, is bringing martial art battles to new heights: the observatory deck of...
Widow files $40M suit over 'suicide magnet' GW Bridge
The widow of a prominent Freedom Tower architect who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge is suing the Port Authority for $40 million, calling the structure a...
Chick-fil-A to open its biggest restaurant ever in NYC
Chick-fil-A fans across the country should start planning a pilgrimage to the Big Apple, because the chain is planning to open the Mecca of all chicken-sandwich shops in New York...
Government workers sue to stop move to 'terrorist target' One World Trade Center
A group of federal employees has filed suit in Manhattan to prevent their government office’s move to 1 World Trade Center, calling the 1,776-foot tower “a target for terrorists.” Larry...
WTC parachutist: It’s a once-in-a-lifetime jump
The ironworker who parachuted from One World Trade Center said his death-defying leap was “amazing,” but it’s not something he would try again. “No, I wouldn’t do it again,” said...
Trespassers at 1 WTC are a wakeup call
We didn’t know how vulnerable this city had become. Sleepy, half-blind and brainless numbskulls were the only humans protecting us from disaster. The pinheads in charge of security at the...
Tower-climbing teen to undergo 'youth assessment'
Sympathy for the daredevil? Manhattan prosecutors plan to take a long, careful look at the kid who admits he breezed past security to climb to the top of the new...
Half-blind guard caught sleeping at WTC site
Only days before President Obama revealed that his worst fear was a nuclear terror attack on Manhattan, a nearly blind guard was caught sleeping on the job at the Freedom...
CNN producers released on bail after WTC trespassing
Two CNN producers were released without bail on Wednesday after they were charged with allegedly trying to sneak into the World Trade Center site. Connor Boals, 26, and Yon Pomrenze,...
Breathtaking new video of WTC BASE jump released
This visit to the Freedom Tower wasn't for the faint of heart. A new video of a death-defying BASE jump off the World Trade Center shows one of the parachutists plummeting head-first...
CNN producers busted trying to get into WTC site
Two CNN producers were arrested Tuesday for trying to sneak into the World Trade Center site to test its security — after The Post reported that a teen made it...
The view from the 'top of America'
Even a bird’s eye can’t get a view like this. A stunning new photo from atop 1 World Trade Center offers a panoramic look at New York City unlike anything...
4WTC will be first Ground Zero building to open
One World Trade Center with its symbolically freighted 1,776-foot spire is the marquee skyscraper at downtown Manhattan's Ground Zero, but the first office tower to officially open there will be...