World Trade Center, July 1986

• Posted By: Scott Harrison
• Posted On: 12:09 a.m. | July 19, 2012

July 2, 1986: The American flag flies over Battery Park in New York City with the World Trade Center in the background. In the lower right is a 10-story banner of the Statue of Liberty done by artist Keith Haring and New York City schoolchildren.

Staff photographer Bob Grieser, part of a group of Times writers and photographers, was in New York City for the Statue of Liberty’s centennial celebration. This photo was published with the L.A. Times’ July 3, 1986, Statue of Liberty coverage.

Times staff photographer Mark Boster covered the event – writing this previous Statue of Liberty from World Trade Center From the Archive blog post.

On May 4, 2012, Keith Haring got a Google Doodle.