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The World Trade Center seen from a nearby street in 2000. The original World Trade Center created a superblock that cut through the area's street grid, isolating the complex from the rest of the community. [91] [247] [248] The Port Authority had demolished several streets to make way for the towers within the World Trade Center. The project ...
The topping out ceremony of the North Tower (1 World Trade Center) took place on December 23, 1970, while the South Tower (2 World Trade Center)'s ceremony occurred on July 19, 1971. [154] The first tenants moved into the North Tower on December 15, 1970, [ 165 ] and into the South Tower in January 1972. [ 166 ]
The World Trade Center experienced a fire on February 13, 1975, a bombing on February 26, 1993 and a robbery on January 14, 1998. In 1998, the Port Authority decided to privatize the World Trade Center, leasing the buildings to a private company to manage, and awarded the lease to Silverstein Properties on July 24, 2001.
World Trade Center's website describes One World Trade Center's top floor as floor 104, [2] though the tower only contains 94 actual stories according to the Skyscraper Center. [5] The building has 86 usable above-ground floors, of which 78 are intended for office purposes (approximately 2,600,000 square feet (240,000 m 2)).
On the 14th anniversary of September 11th, 2001, we take a look at the faces behind the new World Trade Center. ... The laborious job, which was completed in seven years from start to finish ...
A 1,776-foot-tall skyscraper, initially called the 'Freedom Tower,' was pitched as the new One World Trade Center (a title formerly held by the north tower). A ground-breaking ceremony was held ...
The original One World Trade Center (also known as the North Tower, Tower 1, Building One, or 1 WTC) was one of the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center complex in New York City. It was completed in 1972, stood at a height of 1,368 feet (417 m), and was the tallest building in the world until 1973, when surpassed by the Sears Tower in ...
The Chambers Street–World Trade Center station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line is an express station with four tracks and two island platforms, but in an unusual layout: the station has separate island platforms for through and terminating trains. [58] Both island platforms can accommodate 600-foot (180 m) trains.