The Atlantic Cities journalist Sarah Goodyear wrote a piece about her reactions to One World Trade Center as it rises in the formerly empty space outside her window. There is a very human tendency to build towers and they affect a city and its inhabitants, she writes.

"When you love a city, every change in its skyline is a sign of how it has aged with you, like a scar or a wrinkle," Ms. Goodyear wrote."It may look different than when you first met it, but it is still yours."

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A steel beam signed by President Barack Obama was secured as part of the framework of One World Trade Center tower Thursday. Back in June, the president wrote on the beam, "We remember, We rebuild, We come back stronger." The beam was hoisted up to the 104th floor and will be unseen by the time the building is completed.