Chaos To Condos: Lower Manhattan's Rebirth

rly four years after 9/11, there are more homes, grassy parks -- and new challenges, too.

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May 19, 2005, 9:00 AM PDT

A remarkable residential resurgence is under way in the blocks surrounding ground zero.

"Just four years ago, the fear was palpable that the area would be abandoned. But in the ensuring period, while many media and the political elite have focused on the reconstruction of the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood, these neighborhoods have been flourishing, attracting tens of thousands of young people and their families."

Thanks to Tom Smith

FULL STORY: Chaos to condos: lower Manhattan's rebirth

Thursday, May 19, 2005 in The Christian Science Monitor

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