Showing posts with label Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Show all posts

Monday, November 3, 2014

World Trade Center reopens in New York after 13-years


The World Trade Center in New York had been destroyed 13-years-back on 9th of September 2001 in a terrorist attack when an aircraft crashed into the building reducing it to a mass of rubble in which thousands of people working in the center perished.
A new tower has now come up in its place - the new silvery, 1,776-foot skyscraper rose from the ashes of 9/11 and became to be regarded as a symbol of American resilience. The new tower opened for business with 175 employees of the magazine publishing giant Conde Nast who settled down to their first day of work in their new offices.
Conde Nast are the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair and it is expected that they would move in about 3,000 more employees by early next year to eventually occupy 25 floors of the $3.9 billion, 104-story tower. This is, incidentally, the nation's tallest building.
In the words of Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns both the building and the 16-acre World Trade Center site, the New York City skyline is whole again.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Security scare in New York JFK airport from bag with logo similar to ISIS


It was a Sun Country Airlines flight from JFK Airport of New York to Minneapolis and it was delayed by 90-minutes due to a security scare that had been set off from a bag that displayed a logo similar to that of the ISIS. dailymail.co.uk It seems a passenger on the plane had a duffel bag that had the word 'ISIS' emblazoned on it.
The US authorities boarded the plane, searched luggage and pulled passengers off the plane and stunned passengers tried to capture the actions on their cameras or mobile phones to film the unsettling moment when law enforcement personnel boarded the Sun Country Airlines aircraft on the tarmac at JFK International Airport on Thursday.
The travelers indicated that local and federal officers went through the luggage with a bomb-sniffing dog and detained around ten people. A witness revealed that the people detained were wearing hijabs and clothing one usually sees in the Middle East.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have clarified that the search occurred after someone noticed a logo that was similar to the insignia of the terror group ISIS – it turned out to be a false alarm because the logo belonged to a travel agency and it had given the bags to a tourist group.
Some more popular news items ...
Residents of Los Cabos resort turn to looting after Hurricane Odile strikes
Rape and murder on the beach of Koh Tao island in Thailand
Violence in Missouri – white police shoot dead an unarmed black teenager
When will this violence stop
Serial killers on the prowl in lonely roads of Russia – already 10 killed
British rapists get off lightly - 90 set free in last 4-years with a tap on the knuckle
UAE and Egypt carry out air-strikes against IS militants in Libya
Boko Haram militants seize Bama town in Borno, Nigeria
Seven Afghans sentenced to death for gang-rape in Kabul
ISIS militants do not want to die at hands of female PKK warriors
School days - A Principal with a cane
School days – A teacher who loved aero-modeling