January 2005 - November 2006

September 10, 2006

TTA RALLY IN CENTRAL PARK IS A HUGE SUCCESS!

TTT participated in a very successful rally hosted by the Twin Towers Alliance. Great speeches were givenby all including Margaret Donovan, Richard Hughes, Dave Kelly, Keith Edwards, Joy Goldberg and Andy Martin just to name a few. A documentary film crew was there to capture the entire event. Many people donated at the TTT table and received TTT tee-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons, etc. There were many interested people in the park that came up to us and wanted information - and information they got.

Ed Schramling's winning model of the TTT design contest was on display well into the night and lit up for all to see. Mr. Schramling made his official acceptance speech at this event.

August 5, 2006

9/11 5th ANNIVERSARY RALLY

SEPT. 10TH - CENTRAL PARK BAND SHELL - 4PM

-- BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT THEIR TOWERS BACK --

On this 40th anniversary of the World Trade Center's ground-breaking, TTT is proud to announce our participation in a collective event on Sunday, September 10th, 2006 at the Central Park Band Shell in New York City. After five long years of tremendous dedication on the part of so many, we all have the opportunity to present a united front and give voice to the silent majority. We sincerely hope that any and all pro-rebuilding organizations and individuals, past and present, will see the potential value of being there to show that only one thing matters -- putting the Towers back where they belong. It should be a great day and we can give each other a big round of applause for caring so much and trying so hard for so long. And it is going to pay off. Stay tuned for ffurther details.


July 25, 2006

The LMDC Calls it Quits!

Everyone at TTT would like to thank Governor Pataki for putting on the most elaborate and longest running puppet show in the history of the world. Thank you, George, for wasting a horrendous amount of time, money, energy, and our hopes and dreams - you did an amazing job. [Full Story]


May 30, 2006

Team Twin Towers announces the 5 finalists for the Real WTC Restoration Design Competition. Please see our homepage for details. [Full Story]


May 26, 2006

So long Gretchen...

The head of the WTC Memorial Foundation is the latest casualty in the long list of setbacks at Ground Zero. Pataki & Bloomberg lost faith that she could raise the necessary 1 billion dollars for the cost of the memorial. 1 billion dollars? The memorial costing 1 billion dollars could be even more ridiculous than the LMDC even existing. There is no good reason why the memorial should cost that much and everyone seems to know it. Worth mentioning is that Gretchen actually raised 130 million dollars. Not bad. How about taking that money and making a beautiful and worthy memorial. Do we think it could be done for such little money? Read all about this latest mess at the link below. Way to go Gretchen, you did the best you could considering the circumstances. [Full Story]

May 13, 2006

Mike moves aside for King George. [Full Story]

May 12, 2006

Pataki & Bloomberg argue who will replace John Whitehead at the LMDC. Pataki and Bloomberg are setting fine examples of how not to be a leader of New York. [Full Story]

May 11, 2006

Gov. Pataki's approval rating is the lowest in New York's history in the last 23 years. New York has spoken. Pataki's mishandling of Ground Zero can arguably be the biggest display of a personal agenda New York has ever seen. If this is the way he handled Ground Zero, what makes him think in his most wildest of dreams that he can handle an entire country, our United States of America. Well George, there's always retirement... and the Post Office. [Full Story]

May 11, 2006

The WTC Memorial is yet again in more trouble. Ground Zero has turned out to be the biggest money pit New York and this country have seen in quite some time. The plagued memorial and all the circumstances around it mirror the situation surrounding what should be built at the WTC site. [Full Story]


May 11, 2006

New York Assemblyman Sheldon Silver Wants to Know What is Going On at Ground Zero? [Full Story]

May 7, 2006

Over 30,000 bike riders took to the streets today for the 29th Annual Five Boro Bike Tour. This was the 5th consecutive year that TTT has participated and we look forward to next year already!

May 5, 2006

The New York Sun asks the Question: Should New York City Demand REBUILT Twin Towers? Read all about it in this amazingly supportive article about REBUILDING and the Twin Towers Alliance [Full Story]

May 2, 2006

Q: Who just might be dumb enough to move their offices into the proposed Freedom Tower and increase the probability of making the WTC a substantial target?

A: The United States Government (Answer provided by Gov. George Pataki). Don't believe us? Read all about it here: [Full Story]

May 1, 2006

Penn Jillette Tells it Like it IS [Full Story]

May 1, 2006

The Pit Finally Rumbles to Life... or does it? [Full Story]

April 27, 2006

Small Steps at Pataki's Pit [Full Story]

April 27, 2006

Larry Silverstein agrees to give up control of the WTC. Work to begin on Freedom Tower? Just like when work began two years ago when they laid the foundation cornerstone? If this isn't the biggest blunder New York is attempting to make, we don't know what is. And when will the Freedom Tower be completed? 2012? How come Las Vegas can put up the largest hotels in record time but New York's leaders can not reclaim and REBUILD what the people want?? The deal is not completed until Larry signs.

Pataki said this today: "We are not going to just build low in the face of a war against terror."

Has anyone reminded the Governor what he said in 2002? "There will be no building taller than 50 stories at the WTC." And this is a man who wants you to trust him to be your President? [Full Story]

April 16, 2006

Nicole Gelinas paints a very private picture for downtown [Full Story]

April 4, 2006

Steve Cuozzo says it - no one wants the Freedom Tower, other than Gov. George Pataki of course. Hopefully George will soon wake up and realize what a huge mistake he's made. But it's never too late! [Full Story]

April 3, 2006

Schumer says close, but no cigar [Full Story]

April 1, 2006

Sen. Chuck Schumer Raises the Pressure [Full Story]

March 31, 2006

Pataki & Silverstein can't work it out [Full Story]

March 30, 2006

New York's Leaders Screwed up Again! Everyone must pay to get into the future 9/11 Memorial - even the victims' family members? [Full Story]

March 16, 2006

George Bullies Larry [Full Story]

March 16, 2006

Financial Plague the WTC [Full Story]

March 15, 2006

Another Example of how New York's Leaders Screwed Up Ground Zero [Full Story]

March 14, 2006

Ground Zero Talks Reach Crucial Deadline [Full Story]

February 19, 2006

Pataki's Freedumb Tower has tied the Rebuilding Process in Knots for Years [Full Story]

February 13, 2006

Down to the Wire at Ground Zero [Full Story]

February 10, 2006

Larry Sticks to his Guns [Full Story]

February 9, 2006

Pataki Wants to Keep Larry [Full Story]

January 26, 2006

Blooomberg Seeks Control Over Ground Zero [Full Story]

January 24, 2006

New warship U.S.S. New York Made from WTC Steele [Full Story]

December 5, 2005

Where did the 9/11 Money go? [Full Story]

December 1, 2005

Herbert Belton, architect of the Twin Towers, dies at 68. [Full Story]

October 23, 2005

New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells the man who leases the WTC site, Larry Silverstein to take a hike. [Full Story]

October 13, 2005

Should New York's Mayor take control of the WTC site? [Full Story]

September 28, 2005

The International Freedom Center is HISTORY. [Full Story]

September 24, 2005

Hillary speaks out! New York Senator Hillary Clinton spoke out about her concern over the International Freedom Center to be built at the WTC site. [Full Story]

August 11, 2005

Goldman Sachs decides to stay ay Ground Zero. [Full Story]

August 5, 2005

Plans for the fourth anniversary of 9/11 has been announced.  [Full Story]

July 28, 2005

On July 28, Ken Gardner and his Twin Towers II group held an event to support their alternate memorial. They had many speakers, video screens, a tent and one heckler. The reviews were not that impressive but that is okay. One thing is for sure, it doesn't matter how flashy a presentation is - it is the content that matters. Who you are and what you have to say is most important. This should go for any pro-rebuilding group of any kind.


July 20, 2005

TTT's REAL WTC Restoration Design Competition made the highly prestigious Architectural Record. [Full Story]

July 14, 2005

Team Twin Towers announced the REAL WTC Restoration Design Competition at the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen Club in Manhattan. Model designer Ed Shramling was on hand to display his stainless steel version of the Twin Towers. Many thanks to Margaraet Donovan, Steven Eiselen, David Kelly, Andy Martin, and Richard Vela for all their hard work. Please check our homepage for details on the competition. Photos of the event coming soon.

July 4, 2005

In the July 4th issue of Forbes Magazine, Steven Forbes acknowledges that rebuilding the Twin Towers is the right thing to do. Steven Forbes is yet another public figure jumping on the bandwagon. We congratulate him and welcome him to the Team! [Full Story]

May 19, 2005

Trump pushes his own Ground Zero Plan [Full Story]

May 18, 2005

Trump sets his sights on Ground Zero [Full Story]

Trump calls Pataki's WTC site plan a "Pile of Crap." [Full Story]

Trump wants a shot at developing a new lower Manhattan [Full Story]

From USA Today, The Australian [Full Story]

May 17, 2005

Scroll down and read David Shusterís article on Trump [Full Story]

May 12, 2005

TRUMP & THE TOWERS [Full Story]

May 10, 2005

Should Donald Trump REBUILD the Twin Towers? [Full Story]

May 7, 2005

The New York Post comments on Donald Trump. [Full Story]

May 6, 2005

Donald Trump says REBUILD the TWIN TOWERS. [Full Story]

May 5, 2005

FREEDOM TOWER SCRAPPED! [Full Story]

May 3, 2005

Here's a story about LMDC President Kevin Rampe jumping ship. He knows what's coming down the pike. Kevin Rampe replaced Louis R. Tomson, who retired from his position as overseer of the development corporation. This is the
second President to step down and it happened in the middle of heated controversy regarding the World Trade Center site. Read all about it here. [Full Story]

May 1, 2005

More Twin Towers letters from the New York Post. How much clearer does it need to be? People everywhere are calling to junk the proposed Freedom Tower for a REBUILT Twin Towers. [Full Story]

May 1, 2005

Here's another article from the New York Times, which explains how the Freedom Tower is being further delayed by the Police Department's security concerns. The article suggests the inevitable redesign of the Freedom Tower, which the majority either does not like or doesn't know exists. [Full Story]

April 29, 2005

Check out the enthusiasm and excitement evident in this story and how much of what TTT has been saying is being done with this tower - creating icons instead of salutes to height. [Full Story]

April 28, 2005

The New York Post features letters from concerned citizens from all over who are disgusted with the Freedom Tower and want the Twin Towers back. [Full Story]


April 24, 2005

The New York Times bashes Gov. Pataki over the colossal failure that is the Freedom Tower and calls for public participation for a new design. Scrap the Freedom Tower and REBUILD what the majority of the world wants: the
Twin Towers. [Full Story]

April 9, 2005

This article in the New York Times points out that the money that the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation plans to raise for the memorial and two cultural buildings at ground zero will not include a performing arts center as originally planned. [Full Story]

April 3, 2005

Steven Eiselen leads Team New York in their very first meeting at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center. Many issues were discussed. We look forward to continued success and growing Team New York. [See Pictures]

March 31, 2005
Here's a story on the soon-to-be world's tallest building. In short, it means the Twisted Sister will NEVER be the world's tallest, and thus the provincials of NYC have continuously and blatantly lied to New Yorkers and the American people about that fact (even if it is built, it will not top out until after Burj Dubai is complete). Geopolitically, rebuilding the Twins will suck the air from Burj Dubai because it may be taller but it will never be a powerful a symbol or presence as rebuilt Twins. [Full Story]

March 11, 2005

The David Shuster blogs about the freedom tower had apparantly generated tons of emails from bloggers. In this entry he talks about the problems with Governor Pataki's 8 lane street idea as well as the political advantages to supporting the rebuild effort. [Full Story] (You will need to scroll up to March 11 9:40pm to view the entry)

February 25, 2005

In this blog entry from David Shuster, he announces the results of the poll he had on the website of which WTC replacement people would prefer. [Full Story]

February 22, 2005

Here is another entry from David Shuster's blog. In this entry he takes a look at the rebuilding process from the point of view of the Olympic committee trying to bring the Olympics to New York. The committee won't even mention the proposed Freedom Tower as if they were ashamed of it. [Full Story]

February 17, 2005

This is an entry of David Shuster's blog from MSNBC which does a pretty good job of recapping the whole rebuilding timeline and all the issues that have come up. [Full Story]

January 28, 2005

Steve Cuozzo does a good job of detailing the rebuilding situation at Ground Zero and Gov. Pataki's proposed auto tunnel. [Full Story]

January 14, 2005

A great article about the processes involved in rebuilding the World Trade Center. [Full Story]

January 12, 2005

Larry Silverstein, fresh off of his court victory which gave him a $1.1 billion payout from the September 11 attacks, has been authorized by the New York City Industrial Development Agency to borrow an additional $75 million of tax exempt liberty bonds. The money would apparently be used for the 7 World Trade Center project which is set to open next year. [Full Story]