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Before the housing, sanitation and nonviolent communication groups had their say, the Occupy Wall Street facilitator began the night meeting with guided meditation. Someone stood up to object, saying all that controlled, deep breathing was oppressive.
For more than two months, they were open-air communes where people came to rebuild society and start a nationwide discussion on how to close the wide gap between the rich and the poor. But as Occupy tent cities fade away, a growing number of protesters are pushing to put a clear message ahead of the movement.
In a Nov. 9 story about the Occupy Wall Street movement, The Associated Press erroneously paraphrased a comment by Bill Dobbs, a press liaison for the New York City demonstrators. He should have been described as saying that the movement opposes confrontations with police, instead of saying it espouses confrontations.
The planes will crash. You'll hear police sirens, the voices of those who lived and many who didn't. You'll feel like you're in the buildings. And then they'll fall.
A New York City-based private developer is investing at least $100 million in the signature skyscraper being built at the World Trade Center site under a newly approved agreement with the site's owner.
In one room above the bedrock of the former World Trade Center, nearly 3,000 portraits will glow on a brightly lit wall. Walk into another and hear spouses, children and siblings describe their lost loved ones while words flash on a screen saying who they are and where they were on Sept. 11.
The 40-story skyscraper sits on a prime corner in the country's wealthiest commercial market, steps from the Museum of Modern Art and a few blocks from Rockefeller Center and Central Park.
Construction of several ground zero office towers could be put off for decades because of the failing real estate market, the site's owners said Thursday, citing an analysis that projected one skyscraper might not be built and occupied until 35 years after Sept. 11.
Former Rep. Vito Fossella pleaded guilty to drunken driving charges in a Virginia court on Monday, the day a jury trial was to begin in the case that ruined his political career. The former congressman said he was moved in part by last week's drunken-driving accident that killed a Los Angeles Angels pitcher.
Nancy Shevell beamed for hundreds of cameras in London's Leicester Square, a green silk jacket on one arm and Paul McCartney on the other. The 49-year-old trucking heiress dazzled on the red carpet at a movie premiere with the ex-Beatle, her boyfriend of 18 months.
The recession has hammered confidence in the Manhattan real estate market, with first quarter sales falling to their lowest number in decades, experts said.
Even without the name, the symbolism of the Freedom Tower as an American response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks was hard to miss.
Workers used the wrong kind of slings and put them in an incorrect place on a crane that collapsed and killed seven people last year, a city report concluded Wednesday.
Researchers tracking Sept. 11 responders who became ill after working at the World Trade Center site found many had lung problems years later in a study the authors said proves persistent illness in people exposed to toxic dust caused by the twin towers' collapse.
Civil engineer Robert Bea wasn't surprised when he learned the name of the cool-headed pilot who guided his hobbled jetliner over the city and landed it in the Hudson River. The pilot, after all, had been studying crisis management.
Civil engineer Robert Bea wasn't surprised when he learned the name of the cool-headed pilot who guided his hobbled jetliner over the city and landed it in the Hudson River. The pilot, after all, had been studying crisis management.
These twin towers stand 7 feet tall and are made of plastic.
Prosecutors castigated city officials Monday but declined to charge them with any crimes in the deaths of two firefighters at a ground zero skyscraper, despite repeated failures to detect hazards that turned the tower into a death trap.
Two dozen family members of Sept. 11 victims signed a letter Wednesday saying they don't believe in the fairness of the military trials of five men charged with orchestrating the terrorist attacks, and some suggested their opinions cost them attendance at the proceedings.
A ramp that has carried Sept. 11 victims and their mourners, the president and the pope in and out of ground zero is coming down.
The agency that owns ground zero and developer Larry Silverstein went to an arbitrator Wednesday to resolve a multimillion-dollar dispute over a land turnover that has stalled rebuilding.
It takes a lot of paper to raise a crane in New York City these days.
A company that tests concrete at New York City construction projects has been indicted on racketeering charges, though officials point out that the material used at two of its well-known projects — Yankee Stadium and the Freedom Tower skyscraper at ground zero — have passed strength tests.
The glittering, steel and glass domed rail hub had seemed for years to be the only thing that was going right at ground zero.
The owners of the World Trade Center site announced a delay in the completion of a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday but pledged to open a nearly finished Sept. 11 memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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