CNN: WTC Freedom Tower - Port Authority 1, Silverstein 3

[3litz4eva]

I think these designs are awesome, and I think this is gonna be better than rebuilding the twin towers. Yes they were destroyed when nobody wanted them to be (except for anti-americans) but still, americans need to move on and stop all the complaining. How does building the Freedom Tower tell the terrorists that they won? It shows to them that the americans are moving on and that no matter what the terrorists do, they will just do something bigger (in this case taller) and better!!!!

[BallpointsStudio]

@3litz4eva couldn have said it better myself

[platinum476]

@3litz4eva I just like The Freedom Tower & WTC 7, those other 3 towers shouldn't be there!

[Moschmaster94]

iam a german, i never was in NY before, but i have to say, that they should rebuild the beautiful twin towers, if they dont, the terrorists win. but there are way to underway, to stop building the freedome tower at all, and go on with the traditional towers, and thats make me kinda sad.

god bless america

[iSniPe4FuN]

they look weak, fragile, build the old towers just stronger more reinforced.

[michael38921]

I remember excitedly wanting to see the twin towers as a kid, my dad taking us down to manhattan to see them. pretty exciting for a little kid to see the tallest buildings. they were built when my father was in his 20s. In my own 20's I went to the top of the world with my girlfriend. Again, very impressive. In another 10 or so years I'll probably be bringing my own kids down to see the new site. what a story a place can have.

[Benjamingutierrez408]

What terrorist they've never showed any open your fucken eyes it's the fucking government manipulating us ok if an airplane goes out of the freeken flying path it would of being shut down immediatly by the air force so don't say that the terrorist did this people think with your fuckin head haha oh my god please people wake up don't let the tyrants win

[Ufosrcool24]

The terrorists won...period. When these buildings go up, they've officially won.

[BallpointsStudio]

@Ufosrcool24 buzzkill



[happygil45]

great another thing that might get it. Just Saying. it's tall enough to get hit. f it does I'll hate to say I told them so. But we'll just have to wait and see.

[MightyMaul]

my feelings r pretty mixed about the new towers. on one hand im happy that their finally rebuilding at GZ, but on the other hand im sad that i'll never get to see the twin towers again.

[antshabs88]

the world trade center buildings are so much nicer...

[MopDMTBARTL]

Wake up!

truthknowledge com

[cow681]

Rebuilding world trade center 2011 join

[meltingmomentsgo]

did you hear on the news obama! said that he would build the freedom tower sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooo:L:L:):):)::­P:P;)

[westmc9th]

really i wish it could get done for the 10 year anniversary

[Ecuapana]

I Wil have like that towers idea if they were more taller

[TPreyland]

Nooooo!!! rebuild the II

[Hilary112]

Rebuild the TWIN TOWERS! :(

[Quake4and6]

new WTC 7: Fail

FreedomTower: Fail

its not new york style

its china style

[Kamatzu]

I wish the twin towers were being rebuilt, but they just aren't guys. It's a shame, but there's not much we can do about it.

Also, about the video description, what is your problem, man? Silverstein LOST money on this. ALL of his insurance money (which he didn't even receive the maximum from several insurers, because the paperwork wasn't even finished) has gone into rebuilding.

At least have credible evidence backing you up if you're going to make a claim as bold as that.

[ninjaslayer99]

ataully guys they might rebuild the wtc the ft is now extremly over budget and they recently discovered a new problem and will delay it for a month the wtc2 is now in talks with replacing the ft no joke so hold on they might build the wtc2...hopefully

ps-move freedom tower to japan

[alexrm82]

SHAME.

Rebuild the Twin Towers. Support the Twin Towers II project, not this shit.

[rhoads2000]

cough*rebuildtwintowers*cough

[screammac]

we should rebuild the tower not replacing them is giving in and

contrys like amerca should not worry about the hite of new building. becouse if we do we are leting them win and amerca uk and all mail contrys do not give in to the likes of peopil like that a spicle when they arfe pure scum

[screammac]

we should rebuild the tower not replacing them is giving in and

contrys like amerca should not worry about the hite of new building. becouse if we do we are leting them win and amerca uk and all mail contrys do not give in to the likes of peopil like that a spicle when they arfe pure scum

[c100692]

There was only 1 twin towers. We can't replace them, so we'll have to move on. They took 2 precious buildings, and more importantly thousands of lives, but we still have our freedom!

[izzysykopth]

we do? wake up! research hr1955 sr1959

[nanny01642]

isnt the freedom tower meant to be complete by late 2010?

[WTCTribute]

It's going to cost 1 billion to put 2 holes in the ground, and 3 billion to put that shitty excuse for a tower.

Instead, we can spend 1 billion to REBUILD the Twin Towers, restore the Skyline, restore our American difiance against murderous basterds like Osama. They will rise higher than the Towers that stood there before them. THEY will be the NEW Freedom Towers.

[ebola111]

*coughBULLSHITcough*

[WTCTribute]

I'll get the website that I saw this information on and send it to you. Then will it be bullshit?

[WTCTribute]

Pleast, tell me why YOU don't want the Freedom Towers rebuilt? Give me one good reason.

P.S. Using "They'll attack us again" is not an excuse for why you don't want them rebuilt. You know as well as I do that they'll attack us over and over, Twin Towers or not.

[WTCTribute]

That isn't the World Trade Center. And it NEVER WILL BE! We need to rebuild. Rebuild what they took from us. Rebuild what New York loved. Rebuild what America loved.

The Towers offered more jobs than the "Freedom tower" and are a lot better to look at. AND they blend into the other buildings. These belong in Hong Kong, NOT NEW YORK!!

The Twin's raked in 600 million every year (The resteraunt and Observation deck)

[ebola111]

This is the new WTC, and just because you, in your commonplace 'LALALA state,' try to deny it doesn't make it true. The twin towers are being replaced by WTC Towers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and also 7WTC and the new GS Tower and the hotel skyscraper next to WTC Tower 5.

[WTCTribute]

There's only 1 actual tower there. "WTC" 1. That's it. Tower 2 is 79 stories tall. Lol, what a great reminder, isn't it?

[ebola111]

Yeah but its STILL THE SAME SIZE AS THE TWIN TOWERS. If you put the new Tower 2 next to one of the twin towers, from half of the angels, it would look taller, and from the other angles, it would look bigger. (It is about the same height) There's 6+ towers in the New WTC. Deny it some more, please.

[WTCTribute]

It will LOOK taller, but it really isn't. And by the way, I'm not denying the 6 new towers. But 6 towers can't fix what 2 Towers stood for!

You can't fix the big apple with a lemon.

[ebola111]

Tower 2 is about the same height as the old WTC. Very close, may want to wait for construction prints to get an exact height, but it's in the 1,340s+, and it really can make one of the Twin Towers look small or stand up to them in terms of size depending on the angle you compare the two. The skyline indeed will look much bigger and better than it did in the year 2000. There are also 3 other 800 foot plus tall towers going up by the WTC, plus about ten 500'+ tall towers also in lower Manhattan.

[WTCTribute]

Tower 2 is 77 stories tall, idiot, not even close to what the old Twin Towers were.

[boredness12321]

how many floors will de tallest tower have?

[boredness12321]

how many floors will de tallest of the towers have???

[WTCTribute]

About 67, then the rest is empty. EMPTY!!!! No human will be using them, and the observation deck will be on the 107th floor (63 floor lol)

Your being lied to, these buildings are nothing the World Trade Center was.

[z4dude]

i seems like you all want us to forget about what happened and not rebuild what was important to us in the first place.

[nespokesman]

So who are the sorry son's a bitches that are going to work in that?

[ebola111]

Idiot, the people who want to work in it won't be scared and there's no reason at all to be scared in the first place.

[nespokesman]

No reason at all.

Oh wait, how about the single greatest attack on American soil on that spot because all the defense systems failed and those systems are still in place and the person who paid for 911 was never identified. How about Bush making enemies daily in potentially the biggest terrorist state in history if the war is not won and America is forced to pull out due to bankruptcy? The only fucking idiot here is you virus.

[ebola111]

I just love how everything turns in to something about how Bush is so wrong and we're sheep and how America is corrupt. How about the fact that what you say is irrelevant? Answer this for me, buddy: Are they having any problems trying to get new people to work in 7WTC? (It's much taller than the old one.) Some people don't care about what you said because they have something called a brain.

[boredness12321]

y how tall is the new tower ganna be (the tallest 1) how many floors no1 wants to answer dat lol

[5StarGeneralXenoCO]

LOL they havent really even started building the freedom tower XD

[ebola111]

It's quite obvious that you have no idea what you're talking about. Thr Freedom Tower has been under construction for over a year, and her sister towers will start up soon. The foundation is complete and the core is rising. The building has taken its shape already. By May, it will be about 100' above the street.

[5StarGeneralXenoCO]

well actually the last time i have been to new york city, i didnt see that much of a building there...ofcourse the foundation and everything has been laid out. but unlike you, most of the people dont even care about the freedom tower, like myself, cause it is stupid, they should rebuild the great twin towers...so technically none of us care if he is spending billions on it and/or how much it has been constructed at this point.

[ebola111]

Then how do you account for the millions of people that will visit each year? PA estimated that more people will come to see the WTC per year than the Grand Canyon.

[5StarGeneralXenoCO]

because new york city is the greatest city in the world :D!

[yankee432]

100 inches?

[yankee432]

they have but they hit ground level just a few weeks ago and now they are above ground by alittle bit

[ebola111]

...The billions that he's using to rebuild. Dumbasses.

[RexNunc]

FUCK Silverstein....that cocksucker should rot in hell with his billions.

[mattsev2012]

stfu, in case u havent seen the video on youtube somewhere, larry silverstein already admitted to havibg to bring down wtc 7 by controlled demolition you idiot, and wtf do ppl think that fire is the cause, the fucking planes broke through the steel colums and weakened them over an hour and it eventually collapsed because the steal columns were bent and it couldnt hold the weigh anymore so it collapsed so stfu about the whole, only building in history destroyed by fire

[MasterMark123]

who in their right mind would rent space in a Larry Silverstein ? They are the ONLY skyscrapers in the entire world that fall down due to fire ! Building 7 only had a small fire on 2 floors ( what, no sprinkler system ? ) and the nearly 50 story building came down !!!! Come on folks wake up. it was meant to blow up with the twin towers but it screwed up and was brought down later because it was rigged already and Had to come down because all would see the real crime.

[AllanT101]

shut up crumpler, only an idiot would do that.

[crumpler]

Wow I cant wait till they complete the freedom tower its amazing. I mean for al you people that tink the american goverment had nothing to do with the attacks then well lets just hope that god will bless your fucking stupid minds. And if he doesn't well lets just hope that when larry runs out of money again and flys another plane into the freedom tower all you stupid fucks are in the freedom tower

[cntbuster2006]

While you racists and homophobes rant on about unfactual/unfounded claims, realize that Silverstein has to date personally pocketed over $750 million - and for doing NOTHING, other than being the lease holder of the WTC.

Silverstein has contributed ZILCH to the betterment of NYC - he has chosen to line his pockets instead (with what many consider "Blood Money").

Wake the fuck up...

[ebola111]

"Silverstein has contributed ZILCH to the betterment of NYC."

You're fucking retarded. He's spending billions for rebuilding the WTC. He vowed to build it bigger and better and to make his city the best. To add, he's also building a lot of other skyscrapers all over NYC, most over 700' tall. God bless the poor bastards who think the government or Larry did 9/11.

[Rob187ok]

My stupid warped brain thought - A developer buys a site to develop it. The twin towers had to go. Someone landed on his feet. He should use the profits he made out of the 9/11 disaster to help the poor and destitute. Evil creatures, Satanic beings, 'big shots' and bloodsuckers rule the world - Not for long though. Judgement day - is on it's way. PEACE.

[5StarGeneralXenoCO]

fuck you whoever came up with this idea rebuild the WTC you fucking dumb shit.

[donauld1]

you know, cities (i.e. sydney and london and tornto and paris and...u get it.) have a defense system. It works like this: whenever a plane flys in to the cities surronding airspace, a computer automatially locks a missile, contacts the plane and gives the pilots 12 seconds to enter an authorization code. If they dont get the code in, the squence goes uninterupted. (i.e. the missle fires.)

Now why don't mayjor cites in the U.S. like New York and Washington have this defense system?

[wwecruz]

On 9/11 chenet controled the usaf and scrambled thejets.

[coryv235]

then a plane comes along

[tube2a]

nah more like a random guy with a sledge hammer hitting one support beam, BOOOOM

[babyjaycc]

screw lame ass newyork chitown baby the chicago spire fuck new york chi greatest city in the world!!!

[cysthead30]

'Lame ass New York' huh? Thats funny considering New York dwarfs Chicago. NYC has a population of over 8.2 million..while Chicago doesnt even have 3 mil. NYC has far more diversity in it's population (over 180 languages spoken in Queens alone)..more ethnic neighborhoods, more restaurant and nightclub diversity, more pedestrian activity..not to mention one of the top fashion cities in the world...as well as far more skyscrapers. NYC is probably the most well know city on earth.

[babyjaycc]

Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper and with in 2 years will have 7 buildings over 1000 feet, far more than ny. chi is the most segragated city in the world we have more ethnic neighborhoods, yours are all mixed. widely argreed as the most beautiful skyline and the best city in the world. manhaantan is dirty lookin and ugly. we have the best nightclubs check top nightclubs in the country and youll see. and kiss my ass when 2016 olympics come to the chi!!

[cysthead30]

Chicago is in the birthplace of the skyscraper...you're right...but NYC has far more skyscrapers. NYC's 2 tallest buildings were destroyed so it's kind've at a disadvantage right now....but the 3 buildings goin up in the WTC are are all over 1000 ft plus the mid-town tower proposal which includes 2 towers in the range of 1400 to 2000 ft. So those 5 plus the Empire State building and Chrysler make 7 buildings over 1000 ft..so what the fuck are you talking bout bitch?!

[cysthead30]

Part 2..Chicago's the most 'segregated' city in the world?!..haha...that's nothing to be proud of. NYC is far more diverse and thats not an opinion...you can look it up...FACT. Theres just more ethnic/foreign people in NY than Chicago...shit the Foreign born population in 2005 was like 40%!! Nightclub diversity...Chicago doesnt even come close. NYC has more bars that any other city in N. America....FACT.

[babyjaycc]

we got the twin cities, st louis, milwaukee, indianapolis, beautiful fuckin cities, all the midsize cities i aint got time to mention, wisconsin dells, look it up, ny is fuckin ugly buildings are all spread out its dirty people are dicks, who wants that. chicago is the number 1 city for blacks by rate not by total numbers,

[cysthead30]

Part 3. Who the fuck consider's Chi town the best city in the world?!...hahaha!! You and the Gary, Indiana crew?!...ahaha!! If thats true then why the hell do far more people visit NYC then Chicago?...once again...A FACT. FACT...there's more restaurants, clubs, diversity, fashion in NYC. Plus NYC is so much closer to other great places....Boston, DC, Philly, Baltimore are all right there. Where the fuck is Chicago near?...Peoria?!!...hahah. Eat a dick.

[babyjaycc]

so what ny the biggest everybody knows that, damn sure doesnt make it the best! new york has the media exposure because its the biggest, otherwise chicago would easily take over. even jenifer lopez released her new fragrance, the first place she marketed it was michigan ave,the magnifecant mile! oh ya wheres she from? ny!! we got navy pier millenium park state st. beautiful lake shore drive and lake michigan, not the ugly dirty atlantic that far up north!

[cysthead30]

JAY LO....HAHAHAHAHHA!!! Do you even realize how many more people move to NYC from Chicago then the other way around? NYC gets the most media attention because it offers the most fool!! Shit even LA got more exposure than Chicago when it was smaller because of the movie industry and the weather...but LA left you guys in the dust too. Listen ....I acutally love Chicago...but I have to call you out when you make ignorant statements.

[cysthead30]

FACTS..NYC has the largest population of Puerto Ricans outside Puerto Rico. It also has the largest population of Jewish/Israeli people outside Israel. It has the largest population of Greeks, it has the largest population of Black people of any city in the US. It has the largest population of Italians of any city in the US...the list goes on fool...these are FACTS..not opinion. What else you got for me hoe?..you aint got shit. I really like Chicago but dont even try to go there with NYC.

[babyjaycc]

lets see largest polish population second largest irish pop, largest pakistani pop, ur clubs suck and close at like 4 our clubs are open to 6 and bars that neva close, midwest is the drinking capital of the world we party way harder and i got ny people who vouch with me on that. we have the second biggest pr population and the only true puerto rican neighborhood, and the second biggest mexican population outside la.

[cysthead30]

NICE LIST...a lot of "2nd" largest populations....hahah...you just proved my point. NYC also has the largest Chinatown in the western hemisphere. Also NYC has the largest number of gay people of any city in the US so you'd fit right in here. Thats probably why you really dont like NY...your boyfriend was fucking someone else too. Oh well!!..that's life in the big city. Looks like you cant handle it...HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[RedStorm2K7]

Chicago is the largest segregated city in the u.s. north and south side, wtf invented this? so hey man at least chicago owns number with that..lol

[babyjaycc]

hell ya im proud to be segragated, it gives u a real feel when ur in a neighborhood of all a certain race, to the way it is in the home, we have all the same ethnic groups you have, dah!! oh ya balitmore that shithole, nope dont think so!! w

[cysthead30]

St. Louis?...WISCONSON?!!!.HAHAHAH­AHA!!!...Those places dont have shit on Boston, Philly, DC. NY also has the Hamptons, the Jersey shore...I can go on forever. Oh yeah if Chicago is all that....WHY THE FUCK IS IT LOSING POPULATION?!! NYC is the biggest its ever been. Chicago at one time almost had a population of 4 million!! Dont get me wrong, there some great clubs in Chi-Town but nowhere near as many as NY. Most bars in the city STOP SERVING at 4 but dont close till 6-7am fool!!

[bazrippa]

Larry Silverstein who aquired the 99 year lease only 6 weeks before the 911 attacks profited over 6.5 Billion dollars from the collapse of the 7 yes "7" buildings that fell and the 3000 people that died on 911. It makes me sick to the stomach when i see the new buildings glorification in such a way!!!!

[NBAFan21]

WAT THE FUCK 2012 5 YEARS FROM NOW SHIT

[boehboeh18]

The High-Rise Pages has received a so far unconfirmed message from a designer from a large US architect firm who claims that Freedom Tower is being redesigned to make sure it will be taller than Burj Dubai Tower (besides making it more safe).

[BrooklynNYC777]

you are bullshiting the freedom tower shape does not allow it to be taller then burj dubai.......but i wish it wouldd be

[killa202020]

wait 1 fuking minuite they are building a new towere were the twin towers use to be?

that seems a lil fucked up

[Spyrobandi]

no there not these 3 buildings are being built on the ground where wtc 4 5 where and 1 tower is being built on the left of ground zero on the ground from the bank tower

[eyaldr]

rebuild the twin towers, maybe nearby but they have to be rebuilt.

[pentejo1]

I think they should build the TWIN TOWERS agien its what maid New York- New York...

[NBAFan21]

ME 2

[amajetich]

a sweet sounding and unjustified

Lie. MAYBE WE SHOULD build on the Vietnam memorial?

How about Pearl Harbor? How about loved one's grave stones??? Enjoy- Freemason tower. Please, before you enter, can we have your criminal thumb print and retinal scan please. Now, just a quick DNA scan, and your National ID CARD, please. Thank you, enjoy your freedom at Free Mason tower.

[hfer]

Actually the video is The FINAL DESIGN of the World trade center Site" and construction for freedom tower as Phase 1 has already started. Is really shocking to notice the misinformation; or rather the ignorance, expressed in some of the comments posted.

This design was unveiled on September 7th of 2006 and shown all over the news media.

Everybody talks about how painful was 9/11 and yet NOBODY seems to care what has been proposed or built....... no wonder why the design is so controversial

[myrkeyjones]

AWEFUL JUST AWEFULL, statistic show that the twin towers II project is the prefered design, i don't see how building a giant ugly cock at ground zero is going be appreciate nor honour the spirit of New york, bring the twin towers back.

[yungjones11]

why these mothafuckas want to build the wtc again but higher. what about if it gets hit again what about ghost

[RiffMasterMike]

Ignorance is bliss... you believers must be some happy mother truckers.

[shikira]

What is it with these movie style names. ground zero. freedom tower. war of terrorism. Why cant they call it what it is? These are all names meant to incite emotion and the americans fall for it hook line and sinker. All the are doing is rebuilding the site to make money. They are not building it to reinforce their freedom. geeze give me a break - I cant take any more of this

[xdream1]

dude... only 8 have been identified and they are saudi arabians. not iraqi's. the rest are alive. even the FBI says Ossama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11... Do you ACTUALLY think that Silverstein is going to use HIS money... oh boy. They really have you guys fooled, don't they?

[alaskanealge77]

they should & probably would build 2 giant towers to show the terrorist groups & the world you can't hurt the USA...except it wasn't terrorists that hit it (remember 6 or the 19 are still alive & jesus didn't resurrect them). I bet 2 towers would just take to much of the insurance money to build maybe even half.

[Spyrobandi]

The Freedom Tower is just as cool as the twin towers but the nyc skyline will look strange without two tall towers. They should build 2 freedom towers and call them the new wtc

[xdream1]

Larry gets rid of the asbestos, makes DOUBLE the money on his terrorist insurance, and now is making millions more in the new building and subsequent leases. Nice!

[apassion4purple]

well said!

[xdream1]

Thanks, AP4P. If a rich woman dies, and the cops go to the scene of the crime and sees the husband tearing his house down, while trucks haul away all the material, including the womans body, and then finds out the husband had a 18 billion dollar insurance policy on her, and does nothing, is not only complicit, but an accessory to murder. Wouldn't you think?

[TVADICT]

stupid buildings, bring back the wtc twin towers

[pistonsrock99]

seriously.

[XxkilladudexX]

you mean re-build wtc? just imagin if they did...ill leave the rest for everyone to think

[freepalest1ne]

1776... the year the illuminati was formed.