World Trade Center
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World Trade Center
When talks on how to rebuild the World Trade Center site foundered Tuesday night without an agreement, it was more bad news for Gov. George E. Pataki. Mr. Silverstein -- who leased the World Trade Center six weeks before it was destroyed -- was given such a prominent role in deciding what gets built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. When talks on how to rebuild the World Trade Center site foundered Tuesday night without an agreement, it was more bad news for Gov. George E. Pataki. New York City officials have long grumbled that Mr. Silverstein who leased the World Trade Center six weeks before it was destroyed was given such a prominent role in deciding what gets built on the site of the September 11, 2001, attack.