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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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