On July 4, 2004, New York Gov. George Pataki laid the cornerstone (actually a granite slab buried way down in the foundation) for the new Freedom Tower at Ground Zero.

Dec. 19, 2003: Meanwhile, as architects and planners worked on the Freedom Tower design, crews remained at Ground Zero, removing debris from the toppled World Trade Center towers, and preparing it ...

NEW YORK – Two 25-ton steel columns — one bearing signatures of American steelworkers who helped make it — rose at Ground Zero Tuesday, a milestone in prolonged efforts to build the ...

After months of wrangling for control of buildings and money at ground zero, excavation trucks rolled out Thursday to mark the beginning of construction of the Freedom Tower, the symbolic ...

Nearly eight years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, construction continues on the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero. But a new report is warning that the project - already years behind ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 -- -- NEW YORK, Dec. 19 -- The first 25-ton steel column for the new Freedom Tower was installed Tuesday at Ground Zero, another milestone in prolonged efforts to build a new ...

Any day now, the warring parties at Ground Zero will announce a deal, shake hands and smile for the cameras. They will proclaim that whatever terms they settle on are a win-win for everybody and ...

The fight over the Ground Zero Freedom Tower has spiraled completely out of control, with accusations of a “Watergate break-in” and bitter feuding between the two key architects, sources said ...

The tops of six columns of the tower’s south perimeter are now visible, sprouting from the depths of ground zero. A seventh column, standing alone nearby, is where the Freedom Tower’s east ...

Politicians and developers Thursday celebrated the start of construction on the Freedom Tower, a 1,776-foot-high skyscraper designed to replace the World Trade Center at Ground Zero in New York City.

Ground Zero, Freedom Tower Rises Few public building projects have sparked such competing emotions as the Freedom Tower. Patriotism has driven it from the start, with some inevitably kitschy ...