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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. [4]
The attacks on the World Trade Center killed 2,753 people. [16] The resulting collapse caused structural failure in many of the surrounding buildings as well, and the entire complex was soon destroyed. [27] The process of cleaning up and recovery at the World Trade Center site continued 24 hours a day over a period of eight months.
A permanent memorial and museum, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, were built as part of the design for overall site redevelopment. The 9/11 Memorial consists of two massive pools set within the original footprints of the Twin Towers with 30-foot (9.1 m) waterfalls cascading down their sides.
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 ...
A "bucket brigade" works to clear rubble and debris after the September 11 attacks. The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center elicited a large response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers, resulting in a large loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed.
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.
The World Trade Center's planners were concerned that the World Trade Center would be underused, because at the time, less than 3.8% of the United States' gross national product came from international trade, and corporations with a worldwide presence comprised four-fifths of that sector. [66]
The "tourist guy" standing on the roof of the World Trade Center, seemingly seconds before the plane hits the tower. The "tourist guy" was an internet phenomenon that featured a photograph of a tourist on the observation deck of the World Trade Center digitally altered to show a plane about to hit the tower in the background during the September 11 attacks. [1]