Ten years after the Twin Towers crumbled at the hands of terrorists, the Freedom Tower is finally tickling the skies in Lower Manhattan. And now, the Port Authority of NY and NJ has released some stunning pictures (via Business Insider) of the new site.
The pictures were tweeted out from the WTCProgress account and show everything from the ongoing construction to the incredible views. We’ve included some of them below:
1WTC: From the 80th floor looking north (Dec. 14)
80th floor looking east. Hello Brooklyn! (Dec. 14)
Looking south.
Fog shot.
WTC construction site. (Sep. 20)
A view of the Freedom Tower. (Dec. 12)
By the way, the building should be finished by 2013. You can see more pictures over at Business Insider.
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One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:29amHaving been in the old one’s countless times in the late 70′s and 80′s mostly, it looks eerily similar..
GOD bless the 3000 lives lost… and you can bet the Muzz’s are itching at the seams to get a piece of that place.
And to think they were gonna allow a Victory Fort/Mosque to be built a block away close enough to be hit by RPG’s and missiles launched from it’s roof had the project not collapsed upon itself due to the criminality of the owners and builders (All Muslims).
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One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:35amPS I still Say they should have built 2 identical ones just like that in the lost towers’ place, just like 2 giant middle fingers stuck up to the rest of the world eastward who hate us for the most part.
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TADTAD
Dec. 16, 2011 at 11:50amYes. The twin towers should have been rebuilt, vice one tower. It only took 36 months to construct the Empire State building. I know, I know, it took time to clear the debris from the WTC site, but those towers should have been built and standing tall, completed YEARS ago. That’s America, today.
It’s embarrassing. We used to be able to do incredible things in short order, now, well you get it.
I’m sure it’s due to politcians, government, collective “bargaining,” and a myriad of other BS reasons.
I am so glad to be on the back nine so I don’t have to see the further crumbling of this failed “experiement” much longer.
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NYHuguenot
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:50pmI was thinking the same. I got to go up top in 1970-1971 putting in emergency phones on the floors. No walls. Later I did some work cabling to the communications antennas. Walking through the clouds sometimes. I think I was the lowest paid guy up there. I worked for NY Telephone and everyone else was doing steel, mostly Irish from Ireland and Native Americans. And they drank on the job. Scary. buT IT was a beaustiful view. You could see Connecticutt, New Jersy and on really good days Pennsylvania.
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TheCalvinistPastor
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:28amThats awesome! Too bad it took ten years.
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No Free Beer
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:33amare you talking about the tower or the wars?
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Wilsonpd
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:40amBoth, I think
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JLGunner
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:53amIt’s a union job, what do you expect?
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BobM
Dec. 16, 2011 at 2:34pmHey JL Gunner, I’ll bet you’re some dirt clod dumbass that only could build a good case of hemorrhoids. That UNION JOB for your info is ON TIME,ON BUDGET!
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Halloween
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:34pmTen years and still not done. The pyramids by comparison did not take this long, but they were not union either. Unions and PC are the shackles of progress.
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belloni890
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:44pmYeah thats awesome, POS silverstein thinks so too, after 10 years youd think the american republican and democrat boot lickers would be able to see the forest but as usual they are only seeing trees, Larry Silverstein wow what an ******* and a bald face liar and while Im at it add the Bushs and Chaneys to the list and Beck tell him not to worry his money is safe no one is going to come and take it away from him, because im sure he needs all that money and greed he can get his hands on. You can roll them all up togeather and you will have one big roll of S_it.
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yourtea
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:24amJust Please Remember The Lives Lost .To Me The Clouds Remind Me Of Angles In The Sky. And Merry Christmas to all. Joey
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Joyzee
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:16amiLL bet Barry Pauses’..about this too!……..or the lefty king will take credit for it?
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FREDD The WILSON
Dec. 16, 2011 at 1:26pmYeah He will give the dedication ceremony in 2013 and take all the credit
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Ghandi was a Republican
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:05amYep- Need to hear it. When one person dies this way, dozens if not Hundreds lose a loved one or someone they deeply admire. This brings the toll of 3,000 into the 100s of thousands of victims and Millions affected beyond that. These people were made to chose their poison knowing their children, spouse parents would never see them again without so much as a good bye~! This is the evil that we face in the jihadist mentality (ISLAM). And we have a President who thinks we should all be given the same rights in the same courts?
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Wolf
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:04amHo-hum. What’s so special about pictures of a city? Especially an immoral, filthy city like New York. My, how people rant and rave over the beauty of their Soddom.
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DoseofReality
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:14amhow do you figure immoral? Ever been there? Funny, a lot of people on this site are starting to sound like Al Queda
dthomps6
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:24amHave you ever been out of NYC where people act nice?
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ThemDemsLie2much
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:29amI agree too! New York is filled with nothing but trash. Have fun breathing each others breath and don’t let the Rats bite. Who needs to look at another broke, Left wing ran corrupt city full of burdens of society living of the backs of hard working patriotic Americans. I can almost smell the stinch through my monitor. The biggest memorial should be in PA where the Bravest soles gave up thier lives to save others they didn’t even know.
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DoseofReality
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:38amThemdem….its very clear you hate American and what she stands for…..I feel sorry you have such hatred towards your fellow, hard working Americans. As far as cities go, NYC is extremely safe, extremely wealthy and hardworking, and the financial and cultural center of the US and the world. If you hate everything NYC stands for, you hate this country. How does that feel?
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DoseofReality
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:39amDid you people cheer when the towers came down? After all, it was just full of evil libs who are bent of destroying this country right? 9/11 must be a celebratory day for you huh?
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JesusFreak95
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:39amNYC gets a bad wrap. It certainly has it’s under-belly, but there are many wonderful folks in NYC, and most folks that I’ve run into have been pleasant and polite. There is a “crusty” shell you sometimes have to get through, but with a little time you find out that New Yorkers are human too. ;-)
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boomboom
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:43amI Heart NY…but I love my
Garden State vegetable garden much better!
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ThemDemsLie2much
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:54amDoseofReality
It feels ok because you are from NYC and do not know any better! Maybe you can have your Union look me up and make me sleep with the fish. NYC is safe as long as you pay the gang protecting you.
Also, I can say “AR” and it doesn’t sound like “ER” so there! Ps. your looking back when NYC was the legal way to come here and Illegals were not sanctioned at the tax payers expense. They were sent back.
Now, Dems runs your city and it is broke. You have turned your backs on that beautiful statue in your back yard and what it was brought here to represent. So keep looking through the bars on your windows at the cars up on blocks and leave your door unlocked if it is so safe in NYC. It is if you can afford it!
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JLGunner
Dec. 16, 2011 at 11:09amYou can swing by Tampa and meet all the rude New Yorkers you want.
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JLGunner
Dec. 16, 2011 at 11:11amAll I hear from transplants from NY is how lazy everyone else is and how the water sucks, they can’t get good chinese or good pizza. Fine, “Go home!”.
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Samsss
Dec. 16, 2011 at 3:06pmWold, this is not directed at you only, so please don’t take offense. My wife and I have been to NYC only twice and on each of those trips, we met only the nicest of people. We are from a small town in Mississippi and had been told to expect mis-treatment. To our pleasant surprise, the people were most helpful when we were lost (which was often) and kind in every encounter. Some were amused at our accent of course and we at their’s, but being there was totally a great experience. But then, we were expecting a great experience and I hope that we “gave as good as we got”! I’m 72 years old and one thing I’ve learned is that “To have a friend, you must be a friend”! I learned that from a friend of mine named Jesus – a long time ago.
Works even in NYC – and for sure in Mississippi!
Y’all come see us now – you hear!
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coexist
Dec. 18, 2011 at 12:54pmThen don’t go.
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escape_from_socialism
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:04amOr, you just survive first hit. Your office is in just rubble, fire and smoke all over, so you thinking, get outta here, you so scare but thankful you still alive. Elevators are shut, you trying to find stairways, you see the door to stairways, you finding other member of you office and other businesses. You trying to keep hope up. What happen later, is still a misery. How terrorist implode WTC, I have no idea.
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Tom K
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:03amWith a view like that, a heavily armed anit-aircraft crew should be able to get off a good shot at any threatening aircraft. Terrorists, got you covered. Freedom Indeed !
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Fried Okra
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:56amJust ignore this sick person AMD. He posted it 4 minutes prior this one… but, everyone ignored the little troll. Trolls crave attention. Don’t feed the trolls.
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lisa2994
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:53amHappy to see they are rebuilding something on this land! It shows we rebuild and are not scared to move on in the aftermath of such a horrible terrorist act!
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piper60
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:19amAmen, and Amen!
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coexist
Dec. 18, 2011 at 12:57pmI’ll “second” that Amen and Amen!
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MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:50amBeautiful images, but they have a very strange quality. Why do they look fake? They look like an artist’s rendering or paint-by-numbers to me.
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jado1981
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:53amI was thinking the same thing, and I had to re-read the article to see if I missed something saying that it was an artists rendering… I’m no city boy, but it sure looks like it’d be nice to see in person.
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iahp_mom
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:55amThe reason the images look fake is because the photographer enhanced the tonal contrast in the image. It gives a mundane picture the dreamy artistic look of a painting. It’s quite common now, but the effect has helped take portrait photographers to the level where clients will pay “artist” prices for the photography.
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One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Dec. 16, 2011 at 11:05amYea they’ve been messed with or ‘enhanced’ in the blue areas particularly, as a Graphics and Photoshop expert, they added more contrast to it, it does make it look ‘watercolorish”, I agree.
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JustPeachy
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:49amI’m glad it will be named The Freedom Tower. I pray our country still is free by the time the tower is finished! :-/
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escape_from_socialism
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:56amThey named it, to remember when Freedom was lost.
10 years after that historical moment, our fellow citizen are not freer then Iranians citizen.
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DoseofReality
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:16amEscape: How in gods name do you figure we are not freer than Iranian citizens? There is some weird sort fo group think going on on this and all crazy right wing sites, where people have these insane views and no one calls them out on it. You are a moron….simple as that.
Ishmot2
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:49amAMD1044 People need to hear this, because everyone is forgetting what happened that day.Didn’t you feel a little anger, and sorrow stir when you read it? Maybe if you hear it you wont forget and keep giving Islamic radicals passes on everything. It was only work place violence anyway, just ask Borat Insane Owebumhole.
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kim
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:38amthey will be the next buildings to go they should have left it the way it was there was a lot of people that pasted away there and were cant he people go to take flowers and stuff to there graves. i know they have a place with all there names and they can take them there but htat not were that are layed to rest
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FoundingPrinciples
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:49amI hate to be a nit-picker about spelling and grammar, but come on. That post was completely incoherent. Incorrect spelling, no capitalization, and no punctuation. Please stick to texting with your friends if you cannot put together a clear, concise thought and leave the posting to those who can.
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yourtea
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:49amLets Try To Remember What Glenn Said About Posts Lets Not Be Like Others And Start Saying Nasty Things . Lets Preach Glenns Love. Iam A Disabled Vet From Vietnam And The Past Couple Of Years Have BeenNot So Great .I Have Had @2 Strokes On Top Of It. And Glenn Has Held Me And My Wife Of 34 Years That There Is Hope.Not For Us But For Other Americans. I Know I Can Not Spell Or Think As I Did Before But I Try My Best And I Love To Read And Glenn Has Taught Me That Also. So God Bless All And Please Love One And Another And With Glenns Help We Will .
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Champ
Dec. 16, 2011 at 12:44pmSo, we go from no caps and no punctuation to capitalizing the first letter of each and every word? Does anybody know anything about how to compose a sentence or a paragraph? C’mon people!
On the photo, I would have rather seen a more natural photo.
Champ
Dec. 16, 2011 at 12:51pmoops, I posted before I read YourTea’s post. didn’t notice that this person is doing the best they can given their disability. Should have read before I posted, sorry. (my reply may go away soon since I have reported my own post as inappropriate in an effort to get it deleted)
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MinnesotaMARINE
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:34amNot sick, at all, snap into reality. that’s what they had to decide to do. Face it.
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amd1044
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:32amWhat a sick morbid mind you have, some things are known but do not need to be talked about. Being poetic about the suffering of others hurts their families. The people still living and mourning are brought to tears reading what you said. They try to live knowing their loved ones did not suffer. You are truly sick.
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cabn12
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:30amSomebody discovered Photomatix. Way to much on the HDR process.
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sWampy
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:38amAmen, I am so sick of these things, and people calling them art. Doing this 20 years ago in a dark room with real negatives took skill, sticking a single raw image in photoshop and clicking make it look ****** button isn’t art.
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FORLORNHOPE
Dec. 16, 2011 at 11:12amI like the old black and white photos of NY construction sites from the early 1900″. Also Golden Gate, Hoover Dam type photos, these do look artsy.
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gr8photoman
Dec. 16, 2011 at 4:44pmThe trick to HDR images is making it LOOK like you didn’t use any Photoshop at all. There are very few people who shoot it and do it well. To be fair, it’s not easy…getting it right that is. When it is done correctly the effect can be stunning…but it should never club the viewer over the head. I agree it’s way over done these days. There are just too many people with cameras and a computer who think that’s all it takes to acquire talent.
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Stoic one
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:18amnice pics; about a decade late though. Yea I know – I am complaining
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rush_is_right
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:14amI bet nanny bloomberg is going to have a mosque on the top floor with a minaret atop the building…
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Ih8Taxes
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:09amI would have rebuilt the twin towers exactly as they were.
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flasho
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:17amDitto.
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kim
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:35ami agree with you
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sWampy
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:40amWell maybe not exactly, made them taller and as big as would possibly fit on the lot, and within a year. Show them, knock us down, we come back bigger and stronger.
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THX-1138
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:58amOne addition, anti-aircraft guns/missles and full time military staff to run them. Fool me once…
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gofigureinternational
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:07amEXACTLY Swampy! Put as many crews on the project as necessary to have this thing rise at a breath taking rate!
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kettererbg
Dec. 16, 2011 at 10:34amI concur.
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brianmoc
Dec. 16, 2011 at 9:01amHrd :( waiting on the real pictures.
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sndrman
Dec. 16, 2011 at 8:48amappease b HUSSAIN o. and his radicals friends domestic and abroad and build a mosque on every floor. then the radicals will love us.
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attitudijudi
Dec. 16, 2011 at 8:42amWow!
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lukerw
Dec. 16, 2011 at 8:36amThe Clouds of War…
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Dec. 16, 2011 at 8:36amYou mean it will be finished in 2013 if Mr Obama and his radical Islamist allies get their mosque.
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