Passersby look at photos from the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and of relics from the World Trade Center in New York as they walk past ground zero on Aug. 24, 2006. The photos are part of an exhibit by the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation entitled "Here: Remembering 9/11." Thye exhibit will be on display through October.
Passersby look at photos from the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and of relics from New York's World Trade Center as they walk past ground zero on Aug. 24, 2006. The 52 photos are part of an exhibit by the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation entitled "Here: Remembering 9/11" and will be on display through October.
A Tribute Center volunteer tour guide gives tours at the World Trade Center site in New York, Aug. 9, 2006. The center will serve as the central place for information and tours to help people understand the terrorist attacks there in 1993 and 2001. It will also give families and friends of the people killed on 9/11 a place to visit, to grieve their loss and to remember until the permanent memorial is constructed.
The Tribute Center under construction in New York, Aug. 9, 2006. The center is located on the southeast side of the World Trade Center site and will serve as the central place for information and provide tours to help people understand the World Trade Center attacks in 1993 and 2001 ... and as a place for families and friends of the people lost in the attacks to grieve their loss and remember.
Steelworkers congregate around the steel beam recovered and removed from the World Trade Center site after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on Liberty Street as they deliver it to the Tribute Center in New York Aug. 16, 2006. The center, scheduled to open to the public in October, will be the only official visitors center for the site until a museum and memorial are built.
World Trade Center Memorial architect Michael Arad attends a news conference in New York announcing the start of construction of the footings for the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum on Aug. 17, 2006. The memorial is scheduled to be completed in September 2009.
A model of the latest design of the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower released in New York by the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill on June 28, 2006. The tallest of five planned skyscrapers for the World Trade Center site has undergone three redesigns and two ceremonial groundbreakings.
Architect David Childs, left, and New York Gov. George Pataki view a model of the new revised design for the Freedom Tower that will be built on the World Trade Center site, June 28, 2005. The Freedom Tower will stand at 1,776 feet including 2.6 million square feet of office space while incorporating the memorial for the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, New York terrorist attacks near its base.
World Trade Center Memorial architect Michael Arad, center at microphone, and World Trade Center Memorial Foundation president Joe Daniels, left of microphone, along with other design and construction officials and journalists, attend a news conference announcing the start of construction of the footings for the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum in New York on Aug. 17, 2006.
Construction crews work at ground zero on Aug. 17, 2006, in New York as construction began on the footings for the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum. It is scheduled to be completed by September 2009.
Construction crews work at ground zero on Aug. 17, 2006. Construction began on the footings for the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum.
An American Flag adorns the helmet of a worker from E.E. Cruz, the New Jersey construction firm responsible for building the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum, as he stands at ground zero on Aug. 17, 2006. Construction began on the footings for the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum, scheduled to be completed by September 2009.
An artists rendering released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on June 20, 2006, shows the newly-revised design for the memorial hall of the World Trade Center Memorial and Memorial Museum in New York. The revision will bring the project in line with the established $500 million budget.
An artist's rendering released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on June 20, 2006, shows the newly-revised design for the Plaza Parapet of the World Trade Center Memorial and Memorial Museum in New York. The revision will bring the project in line with the established $500 million budget.
An artist's rendering released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on June 20, 2006, shows the newly-revised design for the museum portion of the World Trade Center Memorial and Memorial Museum in New York.
An artist's rendering released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on June 20, 2006, shows the revised design for the World Trade Center Memorial and Memorial Museum in New York.
An artist's rendering released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on June 20, 2006, shows the newly-revised design for the World Trade Center Memorial and Memorial Museum in New York.
An overhead view of "Reflecting Absence," the revised design for the World Trade Center memorial site by Michael Arad and Peter Walker.
An artist's rendering of the proposed World Trade Center memorial. The three-acre memorial consists of two pools of water set avove the tower footprints with cascading waterfalls. The memorial museum will be underground.