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After 9/11: An Overdue Homecoming

Of the myriad images to emerge from the rubble of September 11, one that didn't get much notice was the moving trucks. More than 20,000 people were displaced from their homes in the days and weeks after 9/11. A great many would load those trucks, drive off, and never again call Lower Manhattan home. Bernadette Grey was... Continue Reading »

To locals, Lower Manhattan is the buzz of Wall Street, the sights of Battery Park City and the heart of New York counter-culture. To the rest of the world, it's the area most directly affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Over the past decade, the Downtown Alliance has tracked the area's dramatic... Continue Reading »

After 9/11, Seeking Out New Homes

NEW YORK -- As vivid as the confusion and fear of Sept. 11 remain for Karen Cooney, she knows it would be worse if she still lived in New York City. The only way to move forward, she continues to believe, was to move away. "Every time you would leave the house, there were reminders," said Cooney (pictured above), who... Continue Reading »

Osama Bin Laden's Abbottabad Mansion Photos

After nearly a decade of rumors and bad intelligence stating that Osama Bin Laden was either already dead or sequestered in caves, it was revealed on Sunday that the mastermind of the 9/11 terror plot was living in a mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan, approximately 2 hours from the capital city of Islamabad. The Huffington... Continue Reading »

Tiger Woods' Former Mistress Buys NYC Condo With Settlement Money

UPDATE: Tiger Woods' former mistress, Rachel Uchitel, just closed on the three-bedroom, three-bath condo in the Murray Hill section of New York City that she will use as an investment property, the listing agent told HousingWatch just minutes after she left the closing table on Sept. 8. "It will not be her primary... Continue Reading »

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