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When she envisioned a deluxe newsstand, the kind of place to find glossy magazines in dozens of languages, obscure literary journals and fashion quarterlies that cost as much as $90, Christina Cieri thought of only one location. Harbor East. "If I...

WASHINGTON -- Even as the United States gathers evidence to justify retaliating against Osama bin Laden and his network of terrorists, a military delegation has been dispatched to Pakistan to begin planning for attacks on targets in Afghanistan, defense...

Several hundred feet from the site of the World Trade Center, bearded priests in black robes chanted ancient memorial hymns Saturday morning on the ruins of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. As the priests conducted the memorial service in Greek and...

Carol Ross Barney knows something about rebuilding after a tragedy. Her firm, Ross Barney + Jankowski won the competition to replace the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after it was destroyed by a bomb in 1995 that killed 168 people....

Three months after the World Trade Center tragedy, mistakes in the tallying and even burial of the enormous number of dead are starting to emerge. This week officials of the city medical examiner paid quiet, rueful visits to the homes of two...

NEW YORK - America marked the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks yesterday with a poignant ceremony at Ground Zero, where 200 children who lost parents and other relatives read the names of all 2,792 people who died there. Heart-breaking messages...

Though she still has no permanent address and is still wearing the donated T-shirt and shorts she received following an abrupt evacuation from her hotel at 3 World Trade Center, Alison Schmid was ready to adopt not one but two cats over the weekend....

Day by day, the city takes halting steps back to normal life, comforted by the return to routines and familiar places. But for thousands of New Yorkers, still barred from homes near the site of the terrorist attack, such relief remains out of reach. At...

Offering the strongest sign yet that he intends to rebuild, the New York City developer who holds the lease on the World Trade Center has hired two of Manhattan's top design firms to begin shaping a new complex and negotiate the political maze that is...