Public Employee Press

2001-2011
DC 37 members lead the way from destruction to recovery


Left: By September, construction workers had completed 81 stories of the new $3.1 billion One World Trade Center. Soaring 1,776 feet into the downtown Manhattan sky, One World Trade Center will be the country's largest building when completed in 2013.

Top Right: Local 375 members at the WTC disaster site in 2001. From left, Frank Connor, Suzanne Lee Kim, Edmund DeBlasio, Paul Reedy, Ron Vega and Mike Kenny.

Below Right: In 2002, Local 1157 member Frank Coniglio, a Supervising Repairer, at a pier along the Hudson River, where debris was loaded onto barges.