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By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Colin Ryan was attending his second day of high school on September 11, 2001, when an airplane crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. Ryan, then 14, received a note in school saying his father, John, who worked on the 89th [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer NOT SO LONG ago, Wall Street financiers and dot-com creators ruled Manhattan, while ironworkers and other construction workers were often portrayed as lazy, overpaid union members. On Sept. 11, everything changed. As Gotham’s white-collar residents watched helplessly, blue-collar men and women used their skills to tackle the rubble of the World [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Hundreds of people flocked to the Winter Garden last night to see the newest collection of plans for the World Trade Center site, in an impromptu opening before today’s official public display of the exhibition featuring nine designs. Commuters on their way to the subway stopped to peruse and ponder [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Remembering sunny days spent playing with her two children outside the World Trade Center, Vivian Hung hopes those in charge of reconstruction will listen to the opinions of all of lower Manhattan. Hung, who emigrated from China’s Canton province in 1991, said through an interpreter that she worries about the impact [...] Critics: Public had little say on transportation projects By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer The selection last week of architect Daniel Libeskind’s design for the World Trade Center site capped an intensely public process, marked by large meetings, passionate debates by everyone from scholars to schoolchildren, and thousands of comments from ordinary New Yorkers. Despite that civic outpouring, [...] San Francisco Chronicle Sunday magazine By Katia Hetter I’ve been trying to figure out where to spend Sept. 11 this year. As I rode the train to work on a recent morning, my mind wandered to the previous anniversaries of those terrorist attacks, and I let myself remember. For the past two years, I’ve attended services at Riverside Church [...] |
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