Developer Larry Silverstein (front row, 3rd L), New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (front row, 2nd R) .....
Developer Larry Silverstein (front row, 3rd L), New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (front row, 2nd R) and New York State Governor George Pataki (back row, 2nd L) watch as the first construction equipment enter the World Trade Center Site to begin construction on the Freedom Tower in New York April 27, 2006. The rebuilding of New York's World Trade Centre was set to begin on Thursday, just one day after officials approved plans to erect the Freedom Tower and other buildings where the Twin Towers stood until September 11. The landowner, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, approved the deal that Silverstein had agreed to on Tuesday, ending four years of often acrimonious debate over what to do with the site destroyed by the 2001 attacks.