According to a Quinnipiac University poll, which surveyed 1,290 New Yorkers about the construction work in progress at Ground Zero, more than half respondents said that the rebuilding of the devastated World Trade Centre (WTC) site is "going badly."

With the eighth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack on the WTC building round the corner, 61 percent of the respondents expressed their doubts about the completion of the first phase of the 9/11 Memorial by the 2011 - the attack's tenth anniversary; and 63 percent people said that they do not expect the Freedom Tower, which was the building's main tower, to be built by the scheduled year, 2013.

A city-state agency too expressed a similar opinion pertaining to the construction of the Freedom Tower, saying that though due to be finished by 2013, the tower may not be completed even until five years later; more so as currently the construction of only one Tower Four is being undertaken at the WTC site.

Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute noted that years of cost blowouts and internal strife between the site's owner and developer have resulted in an excruciatingly slow pace of construction at the WTC site.

Voicing the apparent skepticism of most of the Manhattan residents, Carroll remarked: "We're getting fed up with the continual lack of progress at Ground Zero."