Catherine Palmer sits in her flooded Independence Plaza apartment in 1999 following a fire that gutted the apartment next door.

In 2012, a 408-foot-tall section of antenna, to go on top of 1 World Trade Center, is lowered from a barge onto a flatbed truck near Pier 25.

At a 2008 hearing on the stalled progress in the development of the World Trade Center site, high-level officials and executives listens to a member of the public.