Sep 9th 2011 12:07PM
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 »
Sep 9th 2011 10:54AM
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 »
Aug 29th 2011 3:00PM
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 »
May 2nd 2011 10:55AM
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 »
Dec 28th 2009 8:00AM
Many feared that New Yorkers would flee the city after September 11, 2001 – but a report from the Independent Budget Office shows this concern was unfounded. While a study of IRS tax filings between 1989 and 2007 shows a growing number of people moving out of New York, the number of people moving in has increased... Continue Reading »
