As for the Freedom Tower, no one expects steel to arrive for at least a year.
It is located one block west of the new 104-storey One World Trade Center (also known as the Freedom Tower).
Once called the Freedom Tower, it is due for completion in early 2014.
The Freedom Tower, the site's tallest skyscraper, also aims to be LEED-certified, as do ever more government buildings across America.
But other structures still on the drawing board, including the Freedom Tower in New York City and Burj Dubai in the U.A.E.
Then word emerged that NYPD security concerns might force builders to move the Freedom Tower far from the adjacent West Side Highway.
But work is at last under way on digging out the Freedom Tower's foundations, and the tower may be built by 2011.
And the Freedom Tower, which will be built on the World Trade Center site, is designed to be taller than the original complex.
Walking to a meeting in the financial district past the Freedom Tower built on the site of the World Trade Centre, New York seemed quieter than usual.
While police in New York City investigate two small explosions in front of the British Consulate, they have already come to a conclusion about the security of another building, the Freedom Tower.
Meanwhile in Downtown Manhattan, One World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower) is slated to open its doors in 2013, adding 2.6 million in new office space to the mix.
The skyscraper previously named the Freedom Tower was first conceived in 2002 as a central element of architect Daniel Libeskind's master plan for rebuilding Ground Zero in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
But it's been nothing like the horrendous process of designing the structure now being called the Freedom Tower, the edifice that will stand on the site of New York City's former World Trade Center.
That may very well be the case and the Freedom Tower owners are hoping for it so they can rent out the floors that are currently being erected a few blocks away from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Liberty Square.
The Freedom Tower in New York City, currently being built to replace the the twin towers that were leveled during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, will be the third tallest skyscraper at 1, 776 feet tall once completed in 2013.
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He looked towards the lights in the rising Freedom Tower at the Ground Zero site across the street.
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When the new Freedom Tower is complete in lower Manhattan, it will be one of the top five tallest buildings in the world with a total peak height of 1, 776 feet.
If the tower and a proposed second one were built, San Luis a town of less than 28, 000 people, many of them migrant lettuce farmers would have on its skyline two colossal towers that would each rise 2, 250 feet, almost 500 feet taller than the uncompleted Freedom Tower in New York City.
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It was somewhere near the end of the island of Manhattan, in the shadow of the new spire of the nearly-completed Freedom Tower, that Captain Frank Crescitelli produced his first belly howl of the day.
Striking views of lower Manhattan and the nearly completed 104-story Freedom Tower may peek through from across the harbour, but Red Hook feels a million miles away.
The area, once a barren and bitterly contested site, has since given way to the beginnings of construction for a long awaited "Freedom Tower, " or the 1 World Trade Center.
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