Rebuilding the twin towers would not only be symbolic of this nation’s resiliency but it will give the opportunity for new generations to come to experience how magnificent they were. I don’t have deep connections to many places but I still do with the twin towers even though they’re no longer here. It was one of few things that made me proud to be a New Yorker actually. I miss them and I’m glad that I’m not alone.
John Lopez
*7/26/2019
A skyline without a symbol is meaningless, and the freedom tower fails to present that. All it will ever be is a solid reminder of that tragic day. It shows us New Yorkers towards the world that we aren’t capable of overcoming such a tragedy and it’s a sign of weakness, and that’s exactly what we aren’t. We are strong and very capable of healing. Bring us the skyline we miss in the bottom of our hearts. Please listen to the people.
Adam Lam
6/17/2019
I still have hope. Please, do the right thing, whatever influential individual is listening. This is what we want. Believe us.
Zaheed Chapman
5/12/2019
Man it’s sad to know that a black man (not being racist or pulling the race card here) had tried to rebuild these 2 beautiful buildings and make the area look even better. But none of us peacefully protested at the site to rebuild the twin towers. They were both amazing and still are. Please rebuild both of these towers one day in Manhattan. If we can’t, what about the waterfront of Brooklyn or Queens? But as long as it’s in Manhattan or right close to it would be nice… I hope they rebuild them one day soon before it’s too late (they rebuild WTC 2).
Thomas Mills
5/6/2019
I worked on Greenwich Street just down two blocks from the twin towers. Everyday I would just go to my spot and sit and admire the twin tower marvels. The twin towers should be rebuilt. I would have no problem at all working in newly built twin towers. It is almost an impossibility that any jetliners would ever be hijacked again. First, the passengers on the plane would not let it happen. Second, the cockpit doors are now enforced to withstand mega forces. I despise that new freedom tower. It is ugly and an insult to all. I truly hope new twin towers are built in my lifetime.
Paul Van Buren
5/1/2019
As a native New Yorker, looking at the NYC skyline and not seeing twin towers is a reminder of what happened on 9/11, and a constant reminder of terrorism. They do not need to be built as they once were, but twin towers should be there, in the form of 2 Freedom Towers or whatever seems suitable. Rebuilding such historical buildings is a sign of strength and is a great head start in the right direction of peace and unity.
Mick Russom
*10/29/2018
I remember seeing the towers out my back deck every day as a kid, teenager, adult. It is DISGUSTING to see them gone this many years on. We need them rebuilt and the 10047/10048 zip codes restored. Sad to see when the USA is defaced we dont undo the damage. What is this? Jahr Null High Castle?
Brandon Waterhouse
*9/8/2018
I always loved the world trade center and i would love to see them again one day. The freedom tower is fine and all, but it doesn’t have the same appeal as the WTC, and Windows of the World was awesome getting to look at the view of NYC while eating good food. Also in Hoboken looking at the Twin Towers were way cooler than the new building.
Mark McCarty
5/28/2018
I grew up in NJ and I always saw the Twin Towers whenever we went to the city. To me, they symbolized NYC. I dare say that they WERE NYC for many people, myself included. The skyline just looks wrong without the Twin Towers back where they belong.
We should have rebuilt the towers. Not only would that make the skyline look right; not only would that be a fitting memorial to those who died there; it would be a nice, heartfelt “F You!” to those who brought them down! Give those bastards the finger times two!
My late mother thought that they should have been rebuilt, as do I. Make NY right again; rebuild the Twin Towers!
Paul Richardson
*1/29/2016
I think i was around three years of age when the towers went down. I had no idea about them when i was young, but when we had the 9/11 memorials at my school and on tv, i got to see the towers for their true beauty and what we lost. I am a firm believer/supporter of the rebuilding of the world trade center.
Sam Delacruz
8/23/2015
I was only about 2 on 9/11. My father worked in 4 WTC. He is still alive to the day but for me this gave me the absence of experiencing and seeing these towers for myself. It’s a real shame we are seeing the freedom tower being replaced for this. As if these buildings never existed… REBUILD.
Al Huppert
7/10/2015
It’s really a disgrace that some of these elected officials abuse their power and ignore the popular decision to rebuild the twin towers as they WERE before, and go on design this piece of crap. Larry Silverstein for example, in the wake of 9/11, promised to “rebuild the twin towers as they were” this isn’t what the looked like at all!
Nick DePasquale
*5/15/2015
Rebuild the towers! The new Freedom tower is no where near as good as the old Twin Towers. The Freedom tower is offensive to 9/11 families because it was a horrible replacement for the old towers.
Kevin Cruz
1/24/2015
Rebuild the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Even though it has been 14 years since 9/11 we still are scarred by that event. Not only were the Twin Towers a place a business they were a symbol of America’s prosperity and showed the world who we are as a country. We can’t replace that with a glass tower, that shows the terrorist organizations that they won by destroying America’s beloved towers. Be rebuilding it would be the most genuine form of healing of the scar left by the terrorists on Sept. 11th, 2001. We must rebuild!
The Twin towers should be rebuilt. What is there now is nice and all, but the twins need to rise again! Forget towers 2 and 3, build the Twins again!!!
The Twin towers were the greastest buildings ever, and what is there now, doesn’t fill the whole in the skyline that the twin towers made
Re-build them!!!!
Darren DiGiacomo
12/10/2014
The skyline is not the same with out the twins back in 80s i worked in ny in and out of the wtc wish it was back
Shawn Prenatt
11/21/2014
The vision for the twin towers, and their construction was during a time in American history when our nation was an economic superpower, our prosperity was growing, and our future seemed bright, and towering. To rebuild the twin towers for the sake of recapturing our nation’s past before 9/11 would be a travesty. To rebuild the twin towers while our nation is economically depressed makes no sense. To rebuild the twin towers where the originals once stood would raise much controversy. If our nation is ever prosperous again, and debt free, we must not dwell over fountains of loss but look up to heaven as we construct two towering monuments that pay homage to the twin towers, and cement our memory of the victims of 9/11. This is why we mus
TTA Note: When this comment — much of which is opinion stated as fact — was cut off because it exceeded the default character limit, it was about to tell us why we “must” do something — apparently, one day rebuild. But there was only one reason that always dictated rebuilding — one that removed it from the realm of opinion and turned the politicians into actual villains: Because that was what the majority of the people wanted. And that is the “why” that is supposed to inform all that we do in this country.
Parker MacMurray
10/22/2014
David Colantuono
10/5/2014
I hope this is on-topic. I wish the Freedom Tower had NEVER been built and that the Twin Towers were rebuilt EXACTLY as they were before September 11, 2001.
I had seen them in the 1980s when I used to occasionally visit NYC with my family when I was young. But, I never appreciated them back then and I regret that. That’s why I wish the original Twin Towers were rebuilt just the way they were. Nothing can ever replace the Twin Towers. They gave NYC an awesome skyline before 9/11/2001.
Donovan Luciano
9/12/2014
A twin freedom tower should be built. The skyline isn’t the same. Although they are building Two World Trade Center at the moment, it will not look as nice as having Freedom Twin Towers. One World Trade Center just stands all alone and by Itself. It would look much better with a twin. It should have what the South Tower had, no antenna and an outdoor observation deck while One World Trade Center has the antenna. Do the right thing!
Chad Szymanski
9/11/2014
It’s not right that the Twin Towers were not rebuilt. I pray everyday that we build these building again. I feel we let these terrorist bad guys dictate how we live life and feel we let them defeat us. The Twin Towers were such a beautiful site and so inspiring. I was so fixated on those building since my childhood. America and the World have not been the same since they came down. If NY does not want to rebuild them then let NJ/Jersey City rebuild them. I will keep praying for them to be rebuilt. I’m sure everyone who tragically lost their life on 9/11 would want these beautiful buildings rebuilt. Can we get a real American to stand up for what’s right? Bill Gates or Donald Trump you have all that money, do something great and rebuild.
Paul Thornton
*7/21/2014
Abraham Isaac Mucius III
*6/4/2014
Ever since that unfaithful day everyone who died and who ever is crying out for help. But now the Twin Towers II can be rebuild if we stay strong and get more people to sign the petition and stop the ignorance of the New York State head. People we will and all of America !!! will stop the emotional pain of people that are still hurting from 9/11/01 by rebuilding the Twin Towers II and finally the New York City Skyline will look like the original way it was.
Rich Stout
*5/16/2014
The TWINS need to be rebuilt. I am a builder. To NOT re-build “the twins” is offensive and rewards the terrorists. REBUILDING them defeats the terrorists and shows them who’s boss !!!
Mark Horowitz
2/24/2014
Restore our Twins, restore the American spirit. Please Lord, let it happen.
Richard Loeser
1/11/2014
The World has waited Far Too Long for The Twin Towers to be rebuilt! It’s still not to late to correct our Mistakes! In order to do so we must Rebuild The Twin Towers!
New York City Towers Supporter
*11/2/2013
I am a New Yorker and I think the new Freedom Tower is very ugly. It is nothing at all like the original Twin Towers. Why weren’t the original Twin Towers rebuilt? This Freedom Tower is so ugly and will not even have an outdoor observation deck. And if they had to build it, why not build 2 Freedom Towers the same size? The new buildings are so ugly, it is just awful. Shame on the city for selecting these buildings.
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Rafael Tourgeman
9/19/2013
I can’t help but get angry every time I watch the news and reporters are drooling over the freedom tower and how our country overcame the 9/11 attacks bigger and better. How 1 skinnier tower replacing 2 majestic powerful towers is considered better is mind boggling to me. The twin towers were 2 for a reason. Now when you look at the lower manhattan skyline and see one tower it just doesn’t look right or feel right. The new NYC skyline screams where’s my twin?! I was 2 and now I’m 1. I’m incomplete! Replace tower 2 with a twin freedom tower. Give us back Twin towers and make NYC whole again.
Bob Lutrario
*9/11/2013
At the very least, a twin freedom tower should go up. Until there is a twin towers in the NYC skyline America will not have truly healed. Build the twin towers and dedicate them to all that lost their lives that horrible day.
Jesse Hirshon
*9/6/2013
I was startled when 9/11 happened. No one knew it was coming. I never got to see the towers for real. I’m signing the petition not to look at the past, but to build our new future.
Janet Fish
*8/29/2013
Joshua Rivera
8/25/2013
Honestly, i think that its a complete disgrace to america. we should have rebuilt the Twin Towers to show those terrorists that we are a strong nation, and that we cannot be taken down. The government didnt help us in our time of need, and those terrorists destroyed our country’s greatest iconic symbol and took our loved ones away. Never forget 9/11 and long live the Twin Towers!
alina nancoo
*7/13/2013
Benjamin Corley
*6/3/2013
As a New Yorker myself I think it is a disgrace to America for the towers not to be rebuilt. What is there now shows the monsters who took them down that they won. I think there should at least be a second freedom tower even though that would not be what should be there and the whole site should be called “Freedom Trade Center” or something like that.
Mitzi DeMarco
3/26/2013
I think the Twin Towers II should have been built instead of one lonely, not so attractive tower. I have never been to the original Twin Towers but saw it from afar from the Statue of Liberty back in 1992 and it just looked beautiful. I couldn’t believe it. I was a kid at the time and didn’t know my way around NYC. Anyway, it’d be great to see the Twin Towers again.
Jonathan Moss
*2/23/2013
Tia Williams
*2/20/2013
It would be great to see the towers up again. It was a sad day for America to watch our towers fall and watch all those people die. It was a mean thing that those terrorists did to our country. I will remember and never forget what happened. Rebuilding the Twin Towers would be a sign of victory.
Woody Hamilton
*2/15/2013
Domenique Reed
2/4/2013
It’s clear that people want to see the twin towers built again. In fact, it was clear 11 years ago. Just because the Governor has power over the city doesn’t mean he can take it upon himself to choose which towers to build due to his own preferences. The vote goes to the people of NYC along with the rest of America. This city is filled with useless and weak minded people that work for the government and it needs to change. The thought of the Freedom Tower AND Twin Towers seem like a great idea. Fix the foundation of where the towers stood and put them back, we need to show all remaining terrorists that when we fall WE GET BACK UP!!! But the government is not helping us prove that AT ALL. Our country’s security is alot more superior than it was.
9-11 is one of my earliest memories. I remember it so vividly. I was lucky enough to visit the towers about a week before they came down as a child, but I never really got to get the full experience out of that one visit. The original towers were beautiful and the plans for the new WTC are, in my opinion, atrocious. Please give us back our towers. Please give the people their towers. Please give the people freedom. Please.
Dennis Sheehy
12/29/2012
Rebuild , Rebuild , Rebuild. The people of this great nation deserve just that. On 9/11 terrorists attempted to destroy America and by rebuilding these once great towers that stood tall in the sky , Would say to the terrorists , No matter what you attempted to do or tried to accomplish you could never and will never destroy the spirit of us Americans.
Please rebuild the Towers to be a true memorial to the ones who lost their lives and to the families that lost their loved ones. Rebuild these Towers for the children , Children that were innocent babies at the time of the tragedy. Give them the experience that we had to enjoy the two beautiful monuments to American architectural ability and beauty.
Rebuild these Towers for America…
Robin Bedell-Blankenship
*10/22/2012
My name is Robin Ann Bedell, married name Blankenship. I was born in the Catskills of New York. My father And mother both grew up on Long Island, New York. I cried my eyes out when I saw what happened on 9/11. They should be rebulilt the way they were. Show the world we will always rise to whatever they throw our way. WE WILL STAND TOGETHER AS ONE! THE AMERICANS WILL STAND TOGETHER ALWAYS!!! SO PLEASE PUT ME ON THE LIST TO REBULILD THE TWIN TOWERS THE WAY THEY WERE. THANK YOU.
Alejandro Ravelo
*10/6/2012
I love skyscrapers and I especially loved the Twin Towers, although I never fully remember them I was only about 5 or 6 when they fell. I would love to see them today as the “Golden Towers” By starting over we just show the people who did this to us that we forget easy. I don’t think the towers should be exactly the same maybe a few changes and they would be golden colored but there must be the changes because it would be 9/11 all over again if we just built the same thing and they were to be attacked god forbid…The towers should symbolize the old towers, not some made up towers that look futuristic and have nothing to really do with the twin towers besides the words “world trade center”
Arnaldo Rodriguez
*9/29/2012
Kevin Pymm
*9/20/2012
Neil Chirico
9/12/2012
I grew up in upstate New York and visited those glorious towers while in high school. I remember we went back a second time on our trip because we wanted to go up to the outside viewing deck and the weather had prevented it the day before. So we saw not only the inside observation floor but the outside viewing deck also…a vivid and fond memory from my childhood. I have always wanted to go back and visit those twins and take those tours again as an adult but sadly will never get that chance now. I agree that we should build those towers back again. The Freedom Tower is a nice tribute to America’s freedom, but it just doesn’t hold a candle to those beautiful and majestic twin towers. I believe we should rebuild them again!
Crystal Taylor
*9/11/2012
Quite simply, though the freedom tower is a beautiful building, it does not touch the magnitude of the Twin Towers. How we as a nation can attempt to replace the Twin Towers with a building that cowers in their shadow is a plain travesty.
Justin Lenner
8/17/2012
Just bring the towers back up. Make the New York skyline as it should be. Make Osama Bin Laden roll and cry some more as he burns in hell. If you’re a conspiracy theorist, then just sign petition to show whoever you think caused it to be sad or mad that the American people didn’t throw in the towel. We’ll let you believe what you want to believe. I can’t blame you. America likes things bigger and better. So let’s make the twin towers bigger, better, and safer to put the icing on the cake to show we just don’t give up easily.
Rebuilding the twin towers would not only be symbolic of this nation’s resiliency but it will give the opportunity for new generations to come to experience how magnificent they were. I don’t have deep connections to many places but I still do with the twin towers even though they’re no longer here. It was one of few things that made me proud to be a New Yorker actually. I miss them and I’m glad that I’m not alone.
A skyline without a symbol is meaningless, and the freedom tower fails to present that. All it will ever be is a solid reminder of that tragic day. It shows us New Yorkers towards the world that we aren’t capable of overcoming such a tragedy and it’s a sign of weakness, and that’s exactly what we aren’t. We are strong and very capable of healing. Bring us the skyline we miss in the bottom of our hearts. Please listen to the people.
I still have hope. Please, do the right thing, whatever influential individual is listening. This is what we want. Believe us.
Man it’s sad to know that a black man (not being racist or pulling the race card here) had tried to rebuild these 2 beautiful buildings and make the area look even better. But none of us peacefully protested at the site to rebuild the twin towers. They were both amazing and still are. Please rebuild both of these towers one day in Manhattan. If we can’t, what about the waterfront of Brooklyn or Queens? But as long as it’s in Manhattan or right close to it would be nice… I hope they rebuild them one day soon before it’s too late (they rebuild WTC 2).
I worked on Greenwich Street just down two blocks from the twin towers. Everyday I would just go to my spot and sit and admire the twin tower marvels. The twin towers should be rebuilt. I would have no problem at all working in newly built twin towers. It is almost an impossibility that any jetliners would ever be hijacked again. First, the passengers on the plane would not let it happen. Second, the cockpit doors are now enforced to withstand mega forces. I despise that new freedom tower. It is ugly and an insult to all. I truly hope new twin towers are built in my lifetime.
As a native New Yorker, looking at the NYC skyline and not seeing twin towers is a reminder of what happened on 9/11, and a constant reminder of terrorism. They do not need to be built as they once were, but twin towers should be there, in the form of 2 Freedom Towers or whatever seems suitable. Rebuilding such historical buildings is a sign of strength and is a great head start in the right direction of peace and unity.
I remember seeing the towers out my back deck every day as a kid, teenager, adult. It is DISGUSTING to see them gone this many years on. We need them rebuilt and the 10047/10048 zip codes restored. Sad to see when the USA is defaced we dont undo the damage. What is this? Jahr Null High Castle?
I always loved the world trade center and i would love to see them again one day. The freedom tower is fine and all, but it doesn’t have the same appeal as the WTC, and Windows of the World was awesome getting to look at the view of NYC while eating good food. Also in Hoboken looking at the Twin Towers were way cooler than the new building.
I grew up in NJ and I always saw the Twin Towers whenever we went to the city. To me, they symbolized NYC. I dare say that they WERE NYC for many people, myself included. The skyline just looks wrong without the Twin Towers back where they belong.
We should have rebuilt the towers. Not only would that make the skyline look right; not only would that be a fitting memorial to those who died there; it would be a nice, heartfelt “F You!” to those who brought them down! Give those bastards the finger times two!
My late mother thought that they should have been rebuilt, as do I. Make NY right again; rebuild the Twin Towers!
I think i was around three years of age when the towers went down. I had no idea about them when i was young, but when we had the 9/11 memorials at my school and on tv, i got to see the towers for their true beauty and what we lost. I am a firm believer/supporter of the rebuilding of the world trade center.
I was only about 2 on 9/11. My father worked in 4 WTC. He is still alive to the day but for me this gave me the absence of experiencing and seeing these towers for myself. It’s a real shame we are seeing the freedom tower being replaced for this. As if these buildings never existed… REBUILD.
It’s really a disgrace that some of these elected officials abuse their power and ignore the popular decision to rebuild the twin towers as they WERE before, and go on design this piece of crap. Larry Silverstein for example, in the wake of 9/11, promised to “rebuild the twin towers as they were” this isn’t what the looked like at all!
Rebuild the towers! The new Freedom tower is no where near as good as the old Twin Towers. The Freedom tower is offensive to 9/11 families because it was a horrible replacement for the old towers.
Rebuild the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Even though it has been 14 years since 9/11 we still are scarred by that event. Not only were the Twin Towers a place a business they were a symbol of America’s prosperity and showed the world who we are as a country. We can’t replace that with a glass tower, that shows the terrorist organizations that they won by destroying America’s beloved towers. Be rebuilding it would be the most genuine form of healing of the scar left by the terrorists on Sept. 11th, 2001. We must rebuild!
Sign the Petition,
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/rebuild-twin-towers-nyc/vgPlq9DL
The Twin towers should be rebuilt. What is there now is nice and all, but the twins need to rise again! Forget towers 2 and 3, build the Twins again!!!
The Twin towers were the greastest buildings ever, and what is there now, doesn’t fill the whole in the skyline that the twin towers made
Re-build them!!!!
The skyline is not the same with out the twins back in 80s i worked in ny in and out of the wtc wish it was back
The vision for the twin towers, and their construction was during a time in American history when our nation was an economic superpower, our prosperity was growing, and our future seemed bright, and towering. To rebuild the twin towers for the sake of recapturing our nation’s past before 9/11 would be a travesty. To rebuild the twin towers while our nation is economically depressed makes no sense. To rebuild the twin towers where the originals once stood would raise much controversy. If our nation is ever prosperous again, and debt free, we must not dwell over fountains of loss but look up to heaven as we construct two towering monuments that pay homage to the twin towers, and cement our memory of the victims of 9/11. This is why we mus
TTA Note: When this comment — much of which is opinion stated as fact — was cut off because it exceeded the default character limit, it was about to tell us why we “must” do something — apparently, one day rebuild. But there was only one reason that always dictated rebuilding — one that removed it from the realm of opinion and turned the politicians into actual villains: Because that was what the majority of the people wanted. And that is the “why” that is supposed to inform all that we do in this country.
I hope this is on-topic. I wish the Freedom Tower had NEVER been built and that the Twin Towers were rebuilt EXACTLY as they were before September 11, 2001.
I had seen them in the 1980s when I used to occasionally visit NYC with my family when I was young. But, I never appreciated them back then and I regret that. That’s why I wish the original Twin Towers were rebuilt just the way they were. Nothing can ever replace the Twin Towers. They gave NYC an awesome skyline before 9/11/2001.
A twin freedom tower should be built. The skyline isn’t the same. Although they are building Two World Trade Center at the moment, it will not look as nice as having Freedom Twin Towers. One World Trade Center just stands all alone and by Itself. It would look much better with a twin. It should have what the South Tower had, no antenna and an outdoor observation deck while One World Trade Center has the antenna. Do the right thing!
It’s not right that the Twin Towers were not rebuilt. I pray everyday that we build these building again. I feel we let these terrorist bad guys dictate how we live life and feel we let them defeat us. The Twin Towers were such a beautiful site and so inspiring. I was so fixated on those building since my childhood. America and the World have not been the same since they came down. If NY does not want to rebuild them then let NJ/Jersey City rebuild them. I will keep praying for them to be rebuilt. I’m sure everyone who tragically lost their life on 9/11 would want these beautiful buildings rebuilt. Can we get a real American to stand up for what’s right? Bill Gates or Donald Trump you have all that money, do something great and rebuild.
Ever since that unfaithful day everyone who died and who ever is crying out for help. But now the Twin Towers II can be rebuild if we stay strong and get more people to sign the petition and stop the ignorance of the New York State head. People we will and all of America !!! will stop the emotional pain of people that are still hurting from 9/11/01 by rebuilding the Twin Towers II and finally the New York City Skyline will look like the original way it was.
The TWINS need to be rebuilt. I am a builder. To NOT re-build “the twins” is offensive and rewards the terrorists. REBUILDING them defeats the terrorists and shows them who’s boss !!!