Gospel singer BeBe Winans sang “God Bless America” and more than 100 workers signed the final steel beam that was lifted into place at the new World Trade Center skyscraper, the first expected to be open for business since the twin towers were decimated on 9/11.
Workers raised their hardhats in tribute as the mammoth beam rose slowly into the Manhattan sky at the ceremony Monday to mark the completion of the structure at 4 World Trade Center.
Across the site in the opposite corner stands the uncompleted One World Trade Center which is already New York’s tallest structure.
(READ the story in the CS Monitor)