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Now that Rupert Murdoch owns The Wall Street Journal, he wants all his toys in one toychest properties in one building, namely News Corporation's Sixth Avenue building. The Wall Street Journal newsroom has always been downtown and is currently located at the World Financial Center.

Arno Herwerth, the Long Island man who the DMV rejected his GETOSAMA vanity plate, then sued them now wants to have a 9-11 commemorative license plate available to the Empire State’s motorists – something several other states have for their drivers. However, in New York then Governor George Elmer Patkai vetoed the idea in 2006 and put the brakes on any new optional license plates thanks to a pro-life groups suing states, including New...

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York is sure going to be a doozey. He may have decided not to visit Ground Zero anymore, but his appearance at Columbia University, to participate in a World Leaders Forum, has many people upset.

The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has kicked off another phase in its marketing campaign to raise money for the memorial. Back in July, they introduced ads that said we needed the spontaneous memorials then and we need one (as in donating to one) now. The new ads come as we head to the fifth anniversary of September 11 - they ask "Where Were You When It Happened". There are TV, radio, and print ads - the TV and radio ads have real people saying where they were on that day. We wonder how effective the ads will be in driving donations - they are definitely conversation starters.

The imposingly slick Conde Nast Building at 4 Times Square has made sure it's ready in case of an emergency, as building management has installed radio repeater responders to allow firefighters communication throughout the building. amNewYork calls the system "rare," as many buildings do not wire their buildings, since firefighters can bring in their own systems. The World Trade Center did have a repeater system, but "on September 11, 2001 either failed, was damaged or was not completely turned on," as per the NY Times. Needless to say, the Fire Department was thrilled, as it hasn't asked buildings to be required to retrofit with new responders (the FDNY says their new, more powerful radios work fine).

- The Port Authority has a collection of gifts left for the families of Port Authority employees killed during the attacks.

The World Trade Center memorial, Reflecting Absence, will finally gets the chance to change from design to reality as crews prepare the area at Ground Zero for the memorial. However, some families of September 11 victims are still upset with the design and plan to protest today at noon. Their main complaints are that the memorial does not preserve the footprints of the old WTC building, the memorial is submerged in the ground and that the names of victims are listed randomly. The state Historic Preservation Office is looking into whether or not the footprints should be kept, and critics are going to try to have a judge block construction. Mayor Bloomberg said, "That decision was made - now we have to go and build it. The time for expressing yourself has come and gone, and now we should rally behind this design and go ahead ... [and] build this memorial." While redevelopment has not been very smooth, Gothamist has to agree that the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation seems to have tried to use public comment to inform the design - and that some of these issues have been in the news for over two years (the NY Times had an article about the difference between the WTC footprints and the memorial's "voids" two years ago).

- Riverbank Skating Rink (at 145th Street and Riverside): $4.50 for adults

The World Trade Center's "footprint" will remain in tact in the redesign to be unveiled today. The bus terminal that was planned there is gone (possibly will be relocated to Battery Park City), and according to LMDC's Roland Betts, "The Libeskind plan . . . is 100 percent intact."