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The last time I visited NYC was in September of 2006, first time I had gone back since 911, and one of the places that I visited was the old World Trade Center site, but due to our short visit, we saw ground zero at night.

So ground zero was first on my list.I really didn’t know what to expect, the last I read about this was on July 1, 2008, an article from New York Post: GROUND ZERO: GRIM TRUTH, and part of the article read,

Port Authority Executive Director Christopher Ward confessed to the obvious yesterday: Six-plus years, two governors and hundreds of millions of dollars after 9/11, Ground Zero reconstruction has gone so far off the rails no one can say when - or even if - the project will be finished.
There are no working timetables.
There are no reliable cost estimates.
There is a hole in the ground that may someday morph into something resembling a finished product - but there is virtually no hope that it will look much like the grandiose scheme put forward in the wake of 9/11
Thank you, George Pataki.
Thank you, Eliot Spitzer.
And thanks also to the politicians nominally responsible for Ground Zero - Mayor Bloomberg, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - who never once uttered a meaningful word about the mess.
It’s not like it was a secret: These pages first called attention to the developing debacle in 2002!
Then it was “Eliot’s Abyss.”
Give Gov. Paterson credit for bringing the charade to a halt before he, too, was sucked into the hole in the ground. (Read the rest of the article here)

When I got there on 8/1/2008, Friday afternoon, the area is blocked off, apparently, the construction of the new building(s) has begun, but no telling when it will be completed, maybe 9/11/11 and I believed that this is what it would look like. (Source)

I took these pictures from Century 21 Department Store; there were many people there taking photos and watching the construction in progress.

What ever it’s going to be, I can’t say that it will replace the old World Trade Center, especially for me, I used to go there on the weekends with my sisters, and had fond memories. I have more photos and hope to post in the next day or so.