Half of New Yorkers want to rebuild the Twin Towers.

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A Post survey of 609 people in the five boroughs revealed that 48 percent favor the idea, while 50 percent oppose it. Two percent were undecided.

Sizable majorities in Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx were against rebuilding, as were residents of the West Side.

But there was strong support on the East Side, in Midtown and in Brooklyn. Downtown and Chinatown were almost evenly split.

Yankee manager Joe Torre is one who believes the towers should be restored to their full, 110- story glory.

"I'd like to see the buildings go back up, but have them incorporate a memorial park in and around it," he said. "To me, you put them back up in the same spot to show the world that we're fighting back and won't have others change what we do."

"Independence Day" star Bill Pullman, who is appearing in Edward Albee's hit Broadway play, "The Goat," said the new buildings should have an even "bigger presence."

"Something should be built that has a larger emphasis than the Twin Towers," he said.

Juan Bruno of Brooklyn, who lost his wife, Rachel, in the south tower on Sept. 11, agreed.

"If they build something, it should be so high that it symbolizes New York's strength," he said. "We need something there that outshines everything else," he said.

But Kate Fenneman, 23, a TV producer who lives in Chelsea, said rebuilding is a bad idea.

"I just don't think anyone is going to want to be in the towers again," she said. "There should be a memorial. It should be a place for peace and remembrance."

The Post surveyed New Yorkers on the streets yesterday, just days before public debate begins on the future of Ground Zero.

On Tuesday, six plans for the redevelopment of the 16-acre World Trade Center site will be released publicly.

While planners say it's unlikely any new Ground Zero buildings will rise above 60 stories, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. has declared that the buildings should be high enough to make a significant mark on the skyline and become a "powerful symbol of our nation's strength and determination."

With that in mind, Team Twin Towers, a nonprofit group, is enlisting celebrities to support the full rebuilding of the towers.

So far, comedian David Brenner and actor Paul Rodriguez have signed on.

Unless the towers are rebuilt, the city will never fully recover, Brenner insisted.

"The greatest way to tell these people that they can't beat us would be to rebuild them exactly the same way," he said.

Rodriguez, a comedian-turned-actor who starred in the sidesplitting "A Million to Juan," said, "Build them big, build them high, build them tall enough to scrape the sky."