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New World Trade Center rising from Ground Zero

Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the new World Trade Center was built on ground zero. A look at plans, progress and history of the rebuilding effort.

  • Undated aerial view of the World Trade Center from the late 1970s.(AP Photo)
  • The rubble of the World Trade Center smolders, on Sept. 15, 2001.(AP Photo)
  • Rendering of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which are under construction at the World Trade Center site.(AP Photo)
  • World Trade Center shopping area in New York City, on February 2, 1979.(AP Photo)
  • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Gov. George Pataki, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation President Kevin Rampe and LMDC Chairman John Whitehead pose with actors, performers and artists following a news conference in New York's Winter Garden, on June 10, 2004, to announce the selection of organizations that will perform in and be part of the new cultural institutions that will be constructed at the World Trade Center site.(AP Photo)
  • The World Trade Center, center, is shown in this aerial photo, on Nov. 2, 2009, in New York.(AP Photo)
  • Commercial office buildings are shown on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, on Oct. 18, 2007, in New York. (AP Photo)
  • Artist's rendering released on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006 that shows three proposed designs for the remaining towers at the World Trade Center site. The towers would join the proposed 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, left, in downtown Manhattan's skyline. (AP Photo)
  • Rosaleen Tallon, second from left, leads a group of 9/11 family members in protest against the construction of a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero at the World Trade Center site in New York, on March 13, 2006. Protesters held pictures of the proposed memorial saying it was not a fitting memory to 9/11 victims because of its underground design. Tallon's, brother Sean Tallon, 26, a firefighter from Ladder 10, died in the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo)
  • 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 in New York. (AP Photo)
  • Members of the New York Police Department Crime Scene Unit are seen at the World Trade Center site in New York, on Oct. 20, 2006. The search for the remains of victims moved across the street from the site of the World Trade Center to the lot of a destroyed church, where important relics, including the bones of three saints, may also be buried. (AP Photo)
  • Rendering of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which are under construction at the World Trade Center site. (AP Photo)
  • Undated artist's rendering provided by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum shows a planned exhibition gallery that will include a wall of photographs of every victim of the 2001 attack and 1993 World Trade Center bombing. A multimedia gallery will include several photographs, audiotapes and written remembrances. (AP Photo)
  • The World Trade Center construction site is shown, on June 9, 2010 in New York. At right is the former Deutsche Bank, heavily damaged in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and now being torn down. (AP Photo)
  • A visitor to the newly-opened World Center Hotel overlooks the World Trade Center construction site, on June 9, 2010, in New York. The rising tower of One World Trade Center is at left. The visitor is standing in the View of the World Terrace Club, the hotel's private roof-top restaurant. The boutique hotel has 169 rooms, most with views of the World Trade Center or Lower Manhattan. (AP Photo)
  • Thelma Stuart of Valley Stream, Long Island, N.Y., holds her daughter Amanda, on Nov. 23, 2003, as she rides in the front car of the first PATH train to return to the World Trade Center after the station was destroyed Sept. 11, 2001. Staurt's husband, Port Authority police officer Walwyn Stuart Jr., was instrumental in safely evacuating that train, and returning to the trade center, where he died. Regular PATH service between the World Trade Center and New Jersey resumed Sunday. (AP Photo)
  • Commuters exit the newly constructed World Trade Center path train station, built on the site of the September 11th terrorist attack, on April 8, 2004 in New York. (AP Photo)
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