NEW YORK CITY-With power restored in much of Lower Manhattan andbusinesses returning to normalcy after super-storm Sandy rippedthrough the Tri-State Area, one of the area’s biggest assets – theWorld Trade Center – is coming back, too.

Construction work at the 16-acre site has resumed after 16million gallons of water was pumped out from the area, GovernorAndrew Cuomo said this morning. More than 95% ofthe seven feet of flooding from the storm surge has been removedfrom the site, which involved a massive pump-out effort at theNational September 11 Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero, hesaid.

Today is also the first day since Hurricane Sandy that majorcranes are being used at One World Trade Center and at the PATHtransit hub since the city’s Department ofBuildings issued a mandatory order on Oct. 26 to suspendall construction work due to the impacts of the storm.