Sentences with phrase «twin towers from»

«For the tens of thousands of residents and tourists who ride the ferry each day between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan, the visible absence of the twin towers from the New York City skyline is still a haunting sight,» said Grimm (R - Staten Island / Brooklyn).

A court has rejected a bid to remove a cross made from the wreckage of New York's twin towers from a memorial site.

A court has rejected a bid to remove a cross made from the wreckage of New York's twin towers from a...

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if the afgan people got that mad when the twin towers came down or at the number of people that die from their heroine crop or at the way they surpress women then I would stay and fight for them but they are a backward people and they deserve the taliban

From the stairs that led folks up to twin buildings collapsing on a morning where both towers were not even close to normal capacity.

If Jihad is a struggle to worship God, when did Americans ever stop Osama Bin Laden and his buddies from worshipping God in the their caves, half way across the world, when they decided to send planes through the twin towers on 9/11?

Before the towers collapsed, they saw the thick line of black pitch piping from one of the twin towers.

There was and is a mosque from before the twin towers were built apparently much closer to the site for park 51.

The letters have been fashioned from steel salvaged from the twin towers.

A large digital diagram of the twin towers pinpoints the locations of real - time transmissions from first responders who did not make it out alive, as well as the locations of first responders who did, and we also hear the latter's reminiscences.

They got great performances from their twin towers but also Jason «Captain» Kozin and Jon «o» Matasar were stellar all night as well.

They're just so versatile in how they can score, and where you can place them that there's no real precedent (the twin towers line - ups mentioned in the NY Times article came from a completely different era).

The state museum says that many of the artifacts and items that are to be displayed have never been seen by the public before — from damaged emergency vehicles, a religious symbol that workers on site crafted out of steel, and even landing gear from one of the airplanes that hit the twin towers.

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.

It also bankrolls the treatment for Ground Zero workers, volunteers and residents who became ill from breathing in twin tower toxins.

Tyndal Jr. was one of many from Westchester County that responded to Ground Zero after the twin towers were struck.

A plan by Islamic leaders to build a mosque and cultural center on private land two blocks from where the World Trade Center twin towers were attacked September 11, 2001 has been strongly opposed by those who say it would be an affront to the memories of those who died at ground zero that day.

The raconteur is Philippe Petit, ably performed by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, and he, um, raconts his tale from a jaunty perch atop the Statue of Liberty, the still - standing twin towers gleaming in the distance.

All of this is related by Gordon - Levitt by way of winsome, boldly colorful flashbacks, while he narrates the events from atop the Statue of Liberty, with the twin towers shining behind him in picture - postcard, backlit perfection.

«The Walk» tells the true story of a French wire walker and the twin tower World Trade Center in the mid-1970s... when he strung a wire between them, and then proceeded to walk from one tower to the other without a net more than a thousand feet in the air.

If you have a hankering for twin - stick shooters that take influence from the Amiga you might want to check out Tower 57

Since the film does not begin with images of the crumbling twin towers themselves, it feels rather disconnected from the tragedy, until the very end, when Maysles» black - and - white footage is mixed with the color footage of the concert that was broadcast on television in October of that year.

Aside from a bird's eye view of Manhattan at night in the film's opening moments, Greengrass permits himself to shoot only from camera positions that can be justified by the conceivable presence of a human observer — we never see the exterior of the plane once it's airborne, and the devastation of the Twin Towers is seen only from the remove of the Newark Airport control tower and the television screens in the various control rooms.

The electrical wiring for the twin towers would have reached from New York to Mexico!

«From grabbing that Insta - worthy shot with the iconic twin towers to doing walking tours in historic parts of towns to exploring cultural museums, it's amazing the free things that you can do that in this wonderful city.»

From these side you can enjoy the view of the Twin Towers, the steeples of the San Pietro church, the Tower Of Escape and several other historic buildings.

Located in The Twin Dolphin Tower mere steps from the Driftwood Beach Club and Pool, your lifetime Waterfront memories will happen here.

The 620 - room hotel occupies twin towers in the heart of the city's commercial, shopping and entertainment district with rooms and suites that range from 42 to an impressive 480 sqm.

Literally in the heart of Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, just 20 metres from the beach, the twin towered Paradise Centre Apartments provides the perfect location to enjoy the action of Cavill Avenue just metres away.

Five minutes from the Petronas Twin Tower and Bukit Bintang shopping area, Hotel Istana is a five - star business hotel with a touch of charm and luxury.Istana is Malay for palace, and the hotel is rightfully described as such, as it exudes elegance and grandeur, starting with the lobby lounge Songket Lounge with its high ceilings, intricately - patterned marbled columns, and tall glass windows with views of the gorgeously - landscaped gardens, to staff clad in traditional purple songket kebaya and baju melayu outfits welcoming you.Being in Jalan Raja Chulan makes Hotel Istana all the more attractive, too - with business centres, shopping, sightseeing and nightlife all a short walk away, guests are sure to be kept occupied throughout their stay.

Perhaps I am reading urban culture into Gareth James's twin turntables, topped by shiny cubes, Jean Shin's towers of prescription drug containers, Sol Sax's sinister upside - down figures suspended from the basement ceiling, or Seth Price's dark, hooded men on clear polyester film, encircling a seated figure traced like an interrogation scene.

There are many references to art and popular cultural imagery that have permeated the Chinese creative subconscious, be it an iconic Andy Warhol portrait and images of the twin towers with smoke pouring from them culled from print media, or the enduring allure of Hollywood and cinema's role in both reflecting and shaping the image of America in the minds of people outside it.

In the show, there's Ai Weiwei's CCTV camera sculpted in marble, James Bridle's outline of a drone shadow on the museum floor, Iván Navarro's inverted neon twin towers — spectres of surveillance and anxiety from a continual state of emergency.

We are presented with four works: in Tower Block, a blank monitor is interjected with high rises, surreally spliced into abstraction via arbitrary image edging; in Floor, three parallel projections explore the surface texture of floorboards with a near - fetishistic, intimate scrutiny; in Shirt, worn fabric is rendered nonfigurative, the patterns and folds becoming landscape instead of fashion; while in Moon, a twin - screen installation, presents us with 21 miniature viewing - windows from which we voyeuristically glimpse the moon, creating a field of juddering orbs.

A hippie with Christ - like looks, a modern Bosch in the East Village who deeply disliked the institutionalization of the art world, Thek created his own «Individual Mythology» (also the term used by curator Harald Szeemann for the section of Documenta 5 in which Thek participated), at times appropriating from those he thought of as his peers — meat shoes via René Magritte («Buzzard,» 1968); twin helix towers of Babel via Vladimir Tatlin; incongruent objects displayed in vitrines via Joseph Beuys; a Brillo Box (with meat) via Andy Warhol.

From towers that look like the Twin Towers... on fire... to tiny printers, the world's largest home, and more, here are the strangest and silliest designs of 2011.