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WTC Project Breaks Years of Silence

By Mike McPhate

For four years Norene Schneider never really talked with her mom about her brother's death. She feared arousing despair over the loss of Tommy, a 38-year-old stock broker killed Sept. 11 in the upper reaches of the north tower.

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Post 9/11, Plane-Spotters Are Being Watched

By Shira Ovide

Some people collect baseball cards or stamps, but Steven Morgan, 45, collects airplane sightings, a hobby that makes him a marked man in the post-9/11 world. Morgan, of Laurel, Md., is a plane spotter, the term for aviation enthusiasts who ogle, photograph and record details about airplanes as they taxi, take off and land.

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New Yorkers Remember Tragic Day
September 11, 2006 - 11:59am

Five years after the city was attacked, New Yorkers pay tribute to those lost.


Former EPA Head Blames NYC for Dust Sickness
September 8, 2006 - 3:41pm

Agency's former director says the city was responsible for protecting residents against 9/11 toxins.


Pre-9/11 bin Laden Tape Surfaces
September 7, 2006 - 5:52pm

The tape purportedly shows terrorist leader and two 9/11 hijackers.


Kids Return to Revamped School System
September 5, 2006 - 6:16pm

Summer’s over for 1.1 million city students.


Waiting For The Big One

Is New York Prepared For Earthquakes?

By Zakir Hussain

Chimneys and balconies fall off buildings, blocking streets to traffic. Failed signals trap thousands of people underground in subways. Fires break out from damaged electrical wires.

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Mosque Offers Portrait Of Tolerance

By Mike McPhate

In the fear-laden days after 9/11, someone hurled a bottle at the stained-glass façade of the Al-Farah mosque in Tribeca—but the glass didn’t crack. That was the worst of it. Fears of anti-Muslim reprisals against the mosque, just 12 blocks from Ground Zero, never materialized, say congregants. If anything, ties with non-Muslims grew stronger.

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Roosevelt Tram Resumes Service
September 1, 2006 - 2:42pm

The resumption comes five months after commuters were trapped above the East River.


Yes, Your Commute Is Worse Than Everyone Else’s
August 31, 2006 - 10:39am

Commutes across the nation are getting better, except here in New York.


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