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niation about what tliis re­ tail will be and if it will be nilies to advise museum ■ appropriate with planned 9/11 memorial nemby.” the A museum dented to freedom yesterday naroeci a sewn-roem- ber family advisory growp, part of memorial and may contain anti- American exhibits. Ute family advisory group, pro­ Guests of honor at yester­ a plan it proposed test month to posed by Freedom Center chain day is ceremony included a Invoiw Sept, 11 family members man Tom Bernstein and vice more Io a center it ho^s to bring chairman FauU Grant Berry in a who’s who list, of ohjcted of­ to the Wf A ffi Trade Center site. tetter to the tMDC test month, ficials with a stake in down­ The InteroBttenai Freedom Center will advise the center's board and town rebuilding. stiB needs to submit more staff on all aspects of center pro­ delBiled plans aboot its cootent gramming and oversee the cen­ In addition to Bloomberg Se^ 23 to the Lower to's permanent main lobby exhi­ and Pataki, New' Jersey gov­ Manhatteo Development Corp,^ bition on "The World and ernor Richard Codey attend­ the agency overseeing reboildinf September 11,” the center said. 1 the site, iMOC cbai«T»an John The panel was to be headed by ed the ceremony along with Whitehead te that if the ■ Berfy, who lost her husband, senators Hillary Clinton and detailed plans do not satirfy the OavM Berry, on Sept, 11, and ,, Charles Schumer of New rebuilding cycnc y it wo«W look Thomas Roger, father of Jean elsewltere fw- a tenant Roger The other members York; and Jon Corzine and The Fr^dotn fitter was chosen Include ViuguiA Bauer, whose Frank Lautenberg of .New last year to SI mhoral space M husband, OavH Bauer, died on Jersey. die Tenter that was set eredc by Sept. 11; &odrkte father <rf us hint Ubesyi^^wbo d^^ned a Peter Go^rich;Swsan Magazine, U.S. Transportation Secre­ master for Ae sfe whose hnsbanfrJag Magnaue, Officials speak at the transit hub’s groundbreaking yesterday. (APj tary Norman Mineta was al­ fcnrffer titu yean a group of fam^ was Wiled; Nikki Stem, wM test so in attendance represent­ uumbeu bsftiesi Ugewruu obinc- her James Potorti; and By Justin Roocct Silverman tiofts to mmewm. h RoWfl TlietifkaiiC wtwse boston^ The four-year, $2.2 billion gonal ferry services. ing the Bush Administra­ wofftU beb act from the pbixme^ Thomas TheurteoC was ldlted4AP) amNewYork Staff Writer construction plan is the mast Pataki was particularly op­ tion. “People cleaning up architecturally innovative timistic yesterday that a pro- from Hurricane Katrina in Four days before the 4th transportation hub ever to posed high-speed rail link the Gulf Coast should be anniversary of S/11, city of- come to downtown Manhat­ between JFK airport and low­ able to find hope and inspi­ fclals broke groond yester­ tan. er Manhattan would liecome ration in New York’s exam­ day for s futuristic World The World Trade Center part of the .new transit hub. ple,” he said, “Americans Trade Center transit hub in Iransportation Hub will re­ Independent city planners are .strong in the face of place the temporary’ PATH are hopeful about the transit tragedy; tliey don't quit, they Ik/ lower Manhattan. train station at Ground Zero hub’s potential benefit,s, but. rebuild.” "This is a first-hand that opened in November of say some issues have not .After yesterday's ceremo­ demonstration of what inspi­ 2003. been addressed. ny, crew began work on a re­ ration really looks like,” said The hub will serve an es­ ’“Tliere will definitely be a taining wall for the new Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a ceremony yesterday at timated 80,000 daiij’ PATH train riders commuting to lot of retail birsiness in-side this .slation,’’ said Petra transit hub. The unique design of the ■ Ground Zero, “When we re­ build in a .spirit of vitality, and from New Jersey. Under­ ground corridors will link Todorovich, a senior planner at Regional Plan A&sociation building is the brainchild of fjTchitect Santiago Calatrava, II hope .and freedom, we hon­ the station to 11 subway in Manhattan. who based its curves on the or the memory of those who lintts via the new Fulton "It would be useful to the flight of a dove out of .a (lied on 9/11.” Street transit hub, and to re- public to have some Infor- child’s hands. Santiago Calatrava’s design for the transit hub. (An