Sentences with phrase «world trade towers»

There are discussions on the content side, and we've already started to experiment: we did an interesting promotional thing around The Walk, where you could walk between the World Trade towers.

The new IMAX trailer for The Walk is basically a collage of all the trailers we've seen so far that emphasizes how batshit crazy and terrifying it would be to even stand near the edge of a World Trade Tower, let alone walk between the towers on a tightrope.

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On Sept. 11, 2001, Mackey was on his way to the S&P ratings agency near the World Trade Center, close enough to the falling towers that debris rained down upon him.

The nation holds a moment of silence in memory of the time American Airlines Flight 11 struck the north tower of the World Trade Center sixteen years ago.

Shortly afterward, he watched the World Trade Center towers crumble.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

Sixteen years ago this morning, two hijacked planes felled the sky - tipped towers of the World Trade Center.

The Vancouver Board of Trade became the first tenant to move into the World Trade Centre office tower at Canada Place and hosted the General Assembly of the World Trade Centers Association.

If there's one word that defines the Canadian economy at the moment, it's uncertainty — what with the shaky housing market, towering household debt loads and, of course, a certain orange - hued world leader rattling the sabre of trade wars.

There is a slew of other major development projects on the horizon that will need massive amounts of steel, including Silverstein Properties» 2.8 million - square - foot 2 World Trade Center and Tishman Speyer's 2.85 million - square - foot Spiral office tower in Hudson Yards.

Undoubtedly, the year is remembered by the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington D.C., in which two hijacked planes took down both World Trade Center towers and a third crashed into the U.S. Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people.

The St Nicholas National Shrine next to the World Trade Centre memorial plaza was to replace a tiny church obliterated when the trade centre's south tower fell in Trade Centre memorial plaza was to replace a tiny church obliterated when the trade centre's south tower fell in trade centre's south tower fell in 2001.

As Johns sees it, such statements were not only unseemly in their haste — memos and family pictures from the World Trade Center towers were still drifting over Manhattan and we were ready to announce to the world what we would and would not do — but they grew out of an unattractive combination of national self - loathing and utopian paciWorld Trade Center towers were still drifting over Manhattan and we were ready to announce to the world what we would and would not do — but they grew out of an unattractive combination of national self - loathing and utopian paciworld what we would and would not do — but they grew out of an unattractive combination of national self - loathing and utopian pacifism.

Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history — when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Off to your left is a long segment of a concrete slurry wall that forms part of the late - 1960s structural excavation or «bathtub» within which most of the World Trade Center, including the twin towers, was constructed.

One was some forgettable office building shaped like a spaceship, but the other two were more familiar: the Pentagon and the World Trade Center twin towers.

In the World Trade Center and near it there were 2 606 persons, including: 1 762 residents of New York 1 402 persons in Tower 1 674 residents of New Jersey 658 employees of Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. 614 persons in Tower 2 355 employees of Marsh Inc. 343 firefighters 175 employees of Aon Corporation 37 Port Authority police officers 23 police officers 2 paramedics 1 firefighter was killed by a man who jumped off the top floors

In this setting, the World Trade Center — notorious for its sterile, meretricious twin towers and desolate, wind - ravaged plaza raised above the surrounding streets — epitomized the post-war breakdown of American architecture.

He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke - choked stairwells of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, «I love you.»

Have the slaughters at the Munich Olympics, the Achille Lauro, PanAm 103, the World Trade Center (1993 and 2001), the pentagon, and the heroes on flight 93, the khobar towers, the London and Madrid mass transit, the Cole, the embasies in Africa....

In my personal opinion, the World Trade Center twin towers were brought down by controlled demolition and the Pentagon was struck by a cruise misslie of some kind.

Our tower of «world trade» was knocked right down.

It was a tiny three - story church that sat on a lot 22 feet by 50 feet in the shadow of the south tower at the World Trade Center site.

Rauf described the center to be built two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers - destroyed by terrorist - hijacked commercial jets on September 11, 2001 - as a «shared space for community activities, like a swimming pool, classrooms and a play space for children.»

The three - story St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, founded in 1916, had a congregation of about 70 families and until its destruction stood in the shadow of the World Trade Center's south tower.

I'm angry, and I have been ever since I watched a 767 slam into the North Tower of the World Trade Center while walking to the office on a lovely late «summer morning last September.

Customers can spend the warm - weather months enjoying their meal with a view on the rooftop terrace, where they will experience unimpeded views of the World Trade Center's Freedom Tower.

Last week Carol Mann, an LPGA star in the»60s and»70s and winner of 38 tournaments worldwide, let loose a rant on her Facebook page, criticizing the proposed construction of an Islamic cultural center near where the World Trade Center towers were located before the 9/11 attacks.

Still, by 7:45 they'd showered, changed into their casual business attire and shared cabs to their offices on floors 101 and 103 to 105 of the World Trade Center's north tower.

Molly Knight Raskin has a completely unexpected 9/11 story in Slate today, about the man who was quite likely the first victim of that morning (a former member of an Israeli counter-terrorism team who happened to be on board the flight that would hit the World Trade Center North Tower and who...

BY ANDY HUMM Monuments to cataclysm — from the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington bearing the names of tens of thousands of American soldiers killed in that divisive US «police action» to the 9/11 Memorial waterfalls marking the site of the obliterated World Trade Center towers and the thousands who perished that day ---LSB-...]

Not so much to defray the cost of One World Trade Center and its other rebuilding commitments (only $ 3.8 billion [59 %] going to the WTC — Silverstein Properties) but to show taxpaying patriots how patriotism is articulated in the Big Apple; as Goldman Sachs got: $ 1.7 billion for its «downtown» tower; the Durst family: $ 650 million for the Bank of America building — in Midtown.

Seventeen minutes of silence was observed representing the time between the first and second planes hitting the twin towers of the World Trade Centers.

MIDTOWN — Former NYPD detective John Botte was among the first responders after the first plane struck the World Trade Center's north tower at 8:46 a.m. on Sept 11, 2001.

On Saturday, Councilwoman Debi Rose honored long - time West Brighton resident Kenneth J. Cubas, who died after he went back into to the south tower of the World Trade Center to help others.

Downtown Express photo by Scot Surbeck One World Trade Center, a.k.a. the Freedom Tower, as seen earlier this month from Battery Park City.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose district includes the World Trade Center site where the planes hit the towers on September 11th 2001, says it was the right thing to do.

In addition, the Port seemed locked in an intractable conflict with Silverstein Properties, holder of the lease on the World Trade Center site, as to how many towers Silverstein would build and who would pay for them.

«One World Trade Center is an iconic, 21st Century Class A plus office tower with universal brand recognition and strong leasing momentum.

Also at 11 a.m., World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein joins over 500 union construction workers and ublic officials, business leaders and representatives from the local community at a topping out ceremony for the 1,079 - foot tall 3 World Trade Center tower, Manhattan.

This video framegrab from the HBO documentary «In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01» shows New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani holding a dust mask as he moves along a street near the World Trade Center soon after the twin towers were attacked by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001.

At 9:03 a.m., New York City holds moment of silence to observe the time the 2nd plane struck the south tower of the World Trade Center.

Also at 8:46 a.m., New York City holds citywide moment of silence to observe the 14th anniversary of plane striking north tower of the World Trade Center.

Silverstein said he hopes to finish building his remaining office towers — the 79 - story 2 World Trade Center and the 71 - story 3 World Trade Center — by 2016.

A report from the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center found that the 1,776 - foot Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site might not be...

In honor of the court ruling guaranteeing the constitutional right to same sex marriage, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the lights on the World Trade center tower will be lit in rainbow colors on Sunday night.

World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein told the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey yesterday that he would proceed with binding arbitration in the dispute over the financing of Silverstein's proposed office towers.

The White House says Rescue 1 lost nearly half its members when it responded to the north tower of the World Trade Center.

There were just two flags — the state seal and white wooden folding chairs in a sparse room in the tower at One World Trade Center.