neighborhood news Feb. 11, 2009

World Trade Center Memorial Moving Along

By Chris Rovzar

The Times has a cool slideshow of the World Trade Center September 11 memorial, designed by Michael Arad, showing how it’s actually moving along. Turns out, it’s hard to build a void! [City Room/NYT]

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