[Sudetenland]

According to Wikipedia, the park is near completion. Ground breaking for Freedom Tower was in April of 2006 (over 5 years ago) and it is up to 80 floors with glass up to the 54th floor. Tower 4 is up to 38 floors with glass up to the 15th floor. The Port Authority Transportation Hub is nearing completion and towers 3&4 have apparently had their foundations laid.

A little poetic license please. The fact remains that it has taken more than twice as long since ground breaking just to get a partially completed tower 1 and with over a decade passing, no building is completed.

Again, the Empire State building was built in 18 months, and Tower 1 of the old WTC completed in just 2 years. Apparently we cannot do what we were capable of doing just forty years ago.

[Cyber Liberty]

Apparently we cannot do what we were capable of doing just forty years ago.

Now see here! If we can put a man on the moon, we can....we can...

Oh, wait. Never mind.

[mc5cents]

According to Wikipedia, the park is near completion. Ground breaking for Freedom Tower was in April of 2006 (over 5 years ago) and it is up to 80 floors with glass up to the 54th floor. Tower 4 is up to 38 floors with glass up to the 15th floor. The Port Authority Transportation Hub is nearing completion and towers 3&4 have apparently had their foundations laid.

And to think that during the Depression they built the Empire State Building's 102 floors, complete, in 18 months!

Oh, well. That was then when men were men and there was no OSHA! Or environmental impact studies! Oh, how we have fallen.

[Malsua]

the Empire State building was built in 18 months,

There is more cement in the first 6 floors of the freedom tower than the entire Empire State Building.