Eight years after the towers fell, Ground Zero was still a construction site. This AP Archive footage from September 2009 shows what the anniversary looked like that year — cranes and concrete where the memorial plaza would eventually stand, the rebuilding still closer to its beginning than its end.
Footage: AP Archive, via YouTube
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