Ground Zero Regenerates: Lower Manhattan 10 Years After 9/11 (Photos)
Father 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 on July 23, 2011 in New York City. The cross is an intersecting steel beam discovered in the World Trade Center rubble which served as a symbol of spiritual recovery in the aftermath of 9/11.
More than 2,700 people were killed when Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked U.S. passenger jets and flew them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Nearly 10 years after the crippling attacks on Lower Manhattan, business, tourism and new construction like One World Trade Center have rejuvenated the formerly devastated cityscape. Getty photographer Mario Tama takes his panoramic camera to One World Trade Center to document this resurgence of life.
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