Lower Manhattan

Heady Days, Immortalized Where the Ticker Tape Fell

September 30, 2004 BLOCKS By DAVID W. DUNLAP   N the midst of the longest ticker-tape drought in a quarter century, lower Broadway – the Canyon of Heroes – has been paved instead with 164 granite plaques from Bowling Green to the Woolworth Building. They commemorate ticker-tape parades from October 1886, when the Statue of […]

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World Trade Center Memorial Delayed By Two More Years

From The Associated Press (AP) – Construction of the memorial and underground museum commemorating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be finished in 2011, two years later than originally planned, officials said Tuesday. Officials had said for years that Sept. 11, 2009, would be the opening date for the museum and the “Reflecting Absence” memorial, […]

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