Well, the (supposedly) final design for the “Freedom Tower” that is to rise where the World Trade Center stood has been unveiled after a long, tortuous process. And the design, a brutalist product of politics and paranoia without even a… Read moreNYC: Fascist architecture for Ground Zero
The latest sorry debacle over the slow and tempestuous redevelopment of New York’s Ground Zero concerns plans for an International Freedom Center on the site. Survivors groups are protesting that the museum will not be exclusively dedicated to the 9-11… Read moreJingoism or self-reflection for Ground Zero museum?
Freedom’s on the march. That’s why a South Asian man gets detained by the police for taking photos on the streets of New York. Gotta love the irony. Thanks to the Independent Press Association’s Voices That Must Be Heard, “the… Read moreAward-winning Indian film-maker harassed by NYPD
Four years after scores of rescue workers were injured in the smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center, the federal government plans to rescind $125 million that was allocated to help them, and many of those who requested compensation are… Read more9-11 heroes get shafted
The New York Police Department is requesting funds to install hundreds more video cameras throughout the city to help fight crime and combat terrorism. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly wants to put up some 400 surveillance cameras on high-crime and high-traffic… Read moreNYC: Big Brother to get bigger
New York City’s tabloids are having a field day today with the arrest of a Bronx martial arts instructor, Tarik Ibn Osman Shah, on charges of “providing material support” to al-Qaeda. The NY Post does not fail to emphasize that… Read moreFear in New York City
WW4 REPORT readers are aware that the monthly Critical Mass bicycle ride in New York City has been facing a severe police crackdown for the past several months, with hundreds arrested, bicycles confiscated, and now a threatened injunction against the… Read moreFree speech rally for NYC Critical Mass
We have a new winner for the dubious honor of most cynical exploitation of 9-11: Newsday columnist Ellis Henican has it right when he writes that New York development mogul Donald Trump “towers in tackiness.” He used the final episode… Read moreTrump mouths off on Ground Zero debacle
CNN reports May 5: New York – Two “improvised explosive devices” made from “novelty-type grenades” have exploded in front of the building that houses the British Consulate in New York City, police and officials said. The early Thursday morning blasts… Read moreNYC: “improvised grenades” go off at UK consulate; activists face scrutiny
Its back to the drawing board yet again for the fractious fraternity of moguls and bureaucrats charged with overseeing redevelopment of Lower Manhattan’s Ground Zero, site of the 9-11 disaster, which still sits empty (but for a new trans-Hudson rail… Read moreNYC gets second chance: Don’t rebuild it!
From the New York Times, April 30 (condensed): At Least 18 Arrests Made in Tense Night of a Monthly Cycling Protest Under tense circumstances, the monthly Critical Mass bicycle ride set out last night from multiple locations in Manhattan, in… Read moreNYC Critical Mass crackdown escalates
The City of New York has reached an agreement in a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Ya-Ya Network, a youth advocacy group. Ya-Ya activists had been threatened with arrest for handing out… Read moreNYC: Ya-Ya Network in First Amendment victory
