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The little chapel that didn't lose a single window on 9/11

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St. Paul's Chapel sits less than 100 yards from where the World Trade Center once stood, right at the edge of what became known as Ground Zero. More than two billion pounds of debris hit the ground on September 11, 2001, hard enough that seismographs 21 miles away picked up the shaking. The 235-year-old chapel should have gone down with everything around it. It didn't. When workers finally got close enough to check, days later, they found the building standing untouched in the middle of a flattened city block — not one window broken. Some things come through the worst of it still standing, still able to hold whoever needs holding. Opened in 1766 , St. Paul's is the oldest church building in Manhattan — and its survival came down to one tree. A roughly 100-year-old sycamore on the corner of the property took the blow that should have hit the wall behind it. What happened next is the part worth remembering. Within days, St. Paul's opened its doors to the recovery workers laboring across

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