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Open Image ModalWith images made from a special panoramic film camera, onlookers and tourists view construction on the World Trade Center site from a viewing area at the World Financial Center in New York City. More than 2,700 people were killed when terrorists hijacked passenger jets and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Ten years after the crippling attacks on Lower Manhattan, business, tourism and new construction like One World Trade Center have rejuvenated the formerly devastated cityscape. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalRevelers attend a pool party on the roof of the James New York hotel in Lower Manhattan, with One World Trade Center being constructed at back left, in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPeople look on during a blessing of the World Trade Center cross before it was moved into its permanent home at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. The cross is an intersecting steel beam discovered in the World Trade Center rubble which served as symbol of spiritual recovery in the aftermath of the attacks. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalFather Brian Jordan (L) and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (C) look on during a blessing of the World Trade Center cross before it was moved into its permanent home at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. The cross is an intersecting steel beam discovered in the World Trade Center rubble which has served as a symbol of spiritual recovery. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA man and girl sit parked in a luxury convertible across the street from the World Trade Center site in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA street performer with the group the Positive Brothers performs a flip over crowd members on Church Street with construction ongoing at the World Trade Center site in New York City. Nearly ten years after the crippling attacks on Lower Manhattan, business, tourism and new construction have rejuvenated the formerly devastated cityscape. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalConstruction continues on One World Trade Center, formerly named the "Freedom Tower," in New York City. Upon completion, One World Trade Center will be New York's tallest skyscraper, topping out at a symbolic 1,776 feet, with 3 million square feet of office space. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe reflecting pools marking the footprints of the twin towers are seen as work continues at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPeople take photographs of the ongoing construction at One World Trade Center in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA construction worker relaxes smoking a cigar on Liberty Street during his lunch break across the street from the World Trade Center site in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA boy plays with the iconic bronze statue of a businessman by John Seward Johnson II, which survived the September 11 attacks covered in debris, across from the World Trade Center site in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalHeavily armed New York Police Department (NYPD) Emergency Service Unit officers keep watch outside Federal Hall, the site where George Washington was inaugurated as first president of the United States in New York City. The site is blocks from Ground Zero and across the street from the New York Stock Exchange. Security has increased in the area following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalConstruction workers take their lunch break on steps leading to the Brooks Brothers store across the street from the World Trade Center site in New York City. The store was heavily damaged in the attacks and reopened in 2002. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalTourists and onlookers view the World Trade Center site from the plaza of the Millenium Hilton Hotel in New York City. The hotel is across the street from the World Trade Center and suffered significant damage in the attacks. It was refurbished and reopened in 2003. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA couple embraces on the Hudson River waterfront with Lower Manhattan and the rising One World Trade Center (TOP C) in the background from Jersey City, New Jersey. Ten years after the crippling attacks on Lower Manhattan, business, tourism and new construction like One World Trade Center have rejuvenated the formerly devastated cityscape. (Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images)
