9/11 Families, Fearing Flood, Battle Plans For Remains At Museum
More than 11 and a half years later, the battle continues over where to house unidentified 9/11 remains at the World Trade Center site.
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More than 11 and a half years later, the battle continues over where to house unidentified 9/11 remains at the World Trade Center site.
The "Postcards" Memorial on the St. George Waterfront contains 274 plaques in honor of Staten Islanders who died in the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. In recent weeks, officials said some of the plaques have been damaged or removed.
Some 2,750 people died at the World Trade Center in the Sept. 11 attacks, but remains of only 1,634 people have been identified.
A total of 18 pieces that might be human remains were found in debris from around the World Trade Center, according to a published report.
Of the 2,752 victims killed at the World Trade Center site -- previously known as ground zero -- 1,634 have been identified.
The observation deck will occupy the tower's 100th through 102nd floors. Elevators will whisk visitors to the top in just one minute but the experience of visiting the attraction will take an hour.
The work began Monday and is expected to continue for about 10 weeks on Staten Island.
The grim and sad search for human remains in the debris from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks resumes Monday.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts in a ruling released publicly Friday rejected the arguments of American Atheists, which had sued the National September 11 Memorial & Museum's operators in 2011 on constitutional grounds.
Nearly 12 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a new search will soon get underway in an attempt to find remains of the more than 1,000 victims who have never been located.
One of the saplings from the chestnut tree that stood as a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis for two years in Amsterdam will soon have a permanent home at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center site.
Officials expect to reopen the station in time for the morning rush hour.
A law enforcement source told CBS News that Abu Ghaith is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a sealed indictment in New York City.
A Connecticut woman whose son died in the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center says she's upset the Oscar-winning movie "Zero Dark Thirty'' used a recording of his last words without her permission.
A bell tolled at 12:18 p.m., the time when a truck bomb was detonated below the north tower -- killing six people and injuring 1,000 more. Family members then read the names of the victims before bagpipers played "Amazing Grace.''
Three World Trade Center construction workers have been charged with possessing and selling marijuana at the site in Lower Manhattan.
A 9/11 hero once labeled a terrorist is finally getting the honor he deserves, nearly a dozen years later.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. on Thursday approved $1 million to hire staff and develop building plans.
The resumption of the Hoboken to World Trade Center service means weekday PATH service has returned to its pre-Sandy schedule.
The Port Authority said the announcement means PATH will, for the first time since Superstorm Sandy, be running normal weekday service.
Their payouts range from $10,000 to $1.5 million. It will be years, though, before the group sees all that money.
The line had been running weekdays from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. to accommodate overnight work related to Superstorm Sandy.
White spent nearly a decade as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, building a reputation as a tough prosecutor with an expertise in pursuing white collar crimes and complex securities and financial fraud cases.
Last month, a barge carrying nine of 18 sections of the steel spire made its way across New York harbor and arrived at Pier 25 after traveling 1,500 nautical miles down the Atlantic seaboard from Quebec.
There's good news for those wanting to party the night away, or work late, in the city and then get home to New Jersey.
