Dispatch From Ground Zero

The Architectural Record "Five years is enough time for builders to construct a small city in China. In lower Manhattan, it’s only the first chapter for the big pit at Ground Zero. But finally it has begun to stir, with leaders coming together and construction starting for real." The link is to article and slide-show of the recent stirrings in the big pit. My grandfather Joseph Myers was a real estate reporter in lower Manhattan (they lived near where the Alfred E. Smith Houses are now, I think the first city-built public housing was put up in the 1930s also nearby thanks to Smith. My father was born at 660 Water Street, on the day after Christmas, under those "projects" now) and worked for the "New York Record" I think or the "Real Estate Times" as it became known (?). The family of eleven children moved to the Bronx in the 1930s, when the buildings went up. My grandmother was once a nanny on Bedloe's Island for the caretaker of the Statue of Liberty. "Congress officially changed the name from Bedloe's Island to Liberty Island in 1956" - WordWeb 4.5a New York State Parks :: Governor Alfred E. Smith/Sunken Meadow State Park ALFRED E. SMITH STATUE - Historical Sign