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Tribeca Trib, Memorial Museum Next Stop For Survivor Stairs, April 2008

Survivor Stairs Video By The Tribeca Trib (March 10, 2008), Tribeca Trib

Downtown Express, Steps survive a temporary move (March 14 - 20, 2008)

WCBS TV, Workers Begin Relocating WTC Survivors' Staircase Sole Surviving Segment Of Twin Towers To Be Stored (March 10, 2008)
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Metro NY, Stairwell to survival, Preservationists say saved WTC staircase is worth $2M to protect (March 10, 2008)
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ABC News, Ground Zero 'Survivors Staircase' Saved (March 9, 2008)

AM New York, 9/11 Staircase Moved As Survivors Watch (March 10, 2008);
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AM New York, Cherished WTC 'survivors' staircase' moved (March 6, 2008)

NY1, "Survivor's Staircase" Moved To Temporary Storage (March 9, 2008)

1010 WINS, WTC Staircase Cherished as 9/11 Escape Route Moving (March 6, 2008)
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CBS News.com, Crews To Move 9/11 Survivors Staircase, WTC Staircase Cherished As 9/11 Escape Route To Be Moved From Spot Where It's Stood Since Then (March 6, 2008)

Associated Press, Crews to Move 9/11 Survivors Staircase, By AMY WESTFELDT (Mar 6, 2008)

USA Today, 9/11 survivor staircase to be moved (March 6, 2008)
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NY Times, A Last Glimpse of the 9/11 Stairway, Before It Moves By David W. Dunlap (March 4, 2008)

NY Times, Extracting Survivors’ Stairway for a Home at the 9/11 Museum (January 17, 2008)
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NY Times, Letter to the Editor, Survivors' Stairway (August 12, 2007)
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NY Times, Stairs to Remain Intact at Ground Zero (August 6, 2007)
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NY Daily News, Silver balks at plan for WTC stairs (April 3, 2007)
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NY Daily News, No resolution as WTC staircase marched to new site (March 31, 2007)
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Associated Press/Newsday, Indecision on survivors' staircase threatens WTC construction (March 23, 2007)
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NY Times, Spitzer May Seek to Save a Beloved Staircase at Ground Zero (February 11, 2007)
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WTCSN Comments: Proposed Mitigation Plan for the Vesey Street Stairway, (February 11, 2007 )

Tribeca Trib, LMDC Says 'Survivor Stairs' Should Go (February 2, 2007)
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NY Times, Partial Demolition Planned for a Reminder of Sept. 11 (January 19, 2007)
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NY Daily News, Next step shaky for WTC stairs (January 16, 2007)
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Proposal by Silverstein Properties and Foster and Partners (October 13, 2006)
Silverstein Properties and their architects, Foster and Partners, proposed disassembling and removing the Survivors' Stairway from the WTC site at the October 13, 2006 LMDC Section 106 meeting. The World Trade Center Survivors' Network and the Lower Manhattan Emergency Preservation Fund submitted letters strongly disagreeing with the proposal. View the proposal (pdf opens in new window, 4mb).

WTCSN Comments: Vesey Street Staircase and Tower Two, (October 23, 2006)

Bloomberg.com, Eyesore or Symbol? Saving Vesey Street Staircase at Ground Zero (September 26, 2006)
(or original URL, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=atq3jFUe4qk4&refer=home)

Tribeca Trib, An Uncertain Fate for 'Survivor' Stairs (September, 2006)
(or original URL, http://www.tribecatrib.com/)

Parade Magazine, Should these Stairs Be Saved? (August 20, 2006)
(or original URL, http://parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_08-20-2006/Intelligence_Report)

Downtown Express, Stairway for Survivors or Delay? (August 11-17, 2006)
(or original URL, http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_170/stairwayforsurvivors.html)

Survivors' Stairway named to National Trust for Historic Preservation List of 11 Most Endangered Historic Places (May 10, 2006)

• National Trust for Historic Preservation
  ".... Because it offered a path to safety that allowed many people to escape the blazing World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, this haunting remnant is often called the Survivors' Staircase. Although it is the only remaining above-ground fragment of the vanished Twin Towers, the staircase is threatened with demolition for construction of a new office tower on the WTC site. "
  • Press Release about the Endangered Sites List
  • National Trust description of Survivors' Stairway
  
• Associated Press/Yahoo (or original URL)
• MSNBC TV - Keith Oberman Show, May 17, 2006.*
  • MSNBC TV web site Transcript
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    MSNBC web site also ran AP story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12719610/
• NPR Radio (or original URL)
• NY Daily News (or original URL)
• NY Times (or original URL)
• NorthJersey.com (or original URL)
• Fox News.com

WTC Survivors Call for Preservation of “Survivors’ Stairway” and Release Position Statement on WTC Memorial and Site Redevelopment (November 28, 2005)
Press Release / Position Statement

• New York Times article about preservation of Survivors' Stairway mentions WTCSN (pdf) Nov 2005)
• Save the Survivors Stairway Campaign (pdf) - What WTCSN is doing (Apr 2005)
• Letter to Governor Pataki (pdf) - written by the Civic Alliance and New York New Visions (Mar 2005)
• Simply Preserve The Survivors' Staircase (pdf) - by the Wall Street Poet
• Letter to LMDC with photos (pdf) (Aug 2004)