The Lens: Viewing the 9/11 Memorial
Staff photographer Amy Dreher snaps a lot of pictures at the World Trade Center site, documenting the construction progress of the 9/11 Memorial. Amy also trains her lens on the smaller pieces that may be overlooked with a project of this magnitude. Through “The Lens: Viewing the 9/11 Memorial,” readers of The MEMO blog can share some of the unique vantage points captured by Amy.
Life anew: The branches of the callery pear tree is sprouting buds. Known by many as the "Survivor Tree" after its recovery from the rubble of 2001, the tree was planted on the plaza of the 9/11 Memorial in December.
In October 2001, the tree with lifeless limbs, snapped roots and blackened trunk was discovered and freed from the piles of smoldering rubble in the plaza of the World Trade Center. The tree arrived in November 2001 at the city Parks Department's Arthur Ross Nursery in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, where it was nursed back to health.
The tree was originally planted in the 1970s in the vicinity of buildings four and five in the WTC complex near Church Street.
By Michael Frazier, Director of Communications for the 9/11 Memorial
Discovery, which is working on a special series about rebuilding the World Trade Center site, shares a video clip about the 9/11 Memorial. It shows memorial architect Michael Arad reviewing the stone that is lining the twin reflecting pools of the memori
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