New York, 2 Years After the Terrorist Attacks

[Hawkeye-X]

NEW YORK -- On Thursday morning, when families of the Sept. 11 victims return to the subterranean pit that once anchored the Twin Towers, they will find a much different place from the dusty, barren wasteland where their grief poured out a year ago.

This hallowed ground, where nearly 2,800 died, is once again teeming with life.

At the bottom, seven stories below street level, hundreds of workers are racing the clock to complete an all-new subway station that, come November, will once again bring commuters to their downtown jobs. Above ground, construction crews are pushing toward the sky with a new building replacing one of the smaller structures destroyed in the terrorist attacks. On the perimeter, there are early signs that the once-devastated neighborhood that stood in the Trade Center's shadow is coming back.

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[Laughing Mirror]

1. 240,000 jobs is an awful lot of jobs for a city to lose in 30 months

and there are empty storefronts everywhere and homelessness is at an all-time high

but there's nothing happening here, nothing really creative as far as I can tell