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World Trade Center before attack
World Trade Center After attack
Building Details
110 stories, 1353 feet (412 meters) tall
(By some sources, Tower One was 1368 feet tall and Tower Two was
1362 feet. Some sources say 1350 feet overall's
About 10,000,000 square feet of rentable space, occupied by
about 50,000 people.
An acre of rentable space on each floor of each tower.
(Gross area of 43200 square feet (4020 square meters) each per
floor.)
Owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The world's tallest building for a short time, until surpassed by the
Sears Tower.
The site is 16 acres in lower Manhattan, with buildings grouped
around a five acre central plaza. The site is bounded by Vesey Street
on the north, Church Street on the east, Liberty Street on the south,
and West Street on the west, about three blocks north of the New York
Stock Exchange.
Observation deck, South Tower, WTC 2, floor 107 (summer hours
9:30am to 11:30pm).
Sky lobbies on floors 44 and 78 served by high speed elevators.
Seven underground levels including services, shopping, and a subway
station.
The two nine story Plaza Buildings, with roughly ell-shaped plans,
flank the main entrance to the complex from Church Street, with WTC 4
on the south and WTC 5 on the north.
Groundbreaking for construction was on August 5th, 1966. Steel
construction began in August 1968. First tenant occupancy of One WTC
was December, 1970, and occupancy of Two WTC began in January 1972.
Ribbon cutting was on April 4, 1973.
On Friday, February 26, 1993, a massive terrorist bomb was
exploded in the Center's public parking garage, but the Towers
survived.
World Trade Center Disaster — Tuesday, September
11, 2001
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at 8:45am New York local time, One
World Trade Center, the north tower, was hit by a hijacked 767
commercial jet airplane, loaded with fuel for a trans-continental
flight. Two World Trade Center, the south tower, was hit by a similar
hijacked jet 18 minutes later at 9:03am. (In separate but related
attacks, the Pentagon building near Washington D.C. was hit by a
hijacked 757 at 9:43am, and at 10:10 am, a fourth hijacked jetliner
crashed in Pennsylvania.) The south tower, WTC 2, which had been
hit second, was the first to suffer a complete structural collapse at
10:05am, 62 minutes after being hit itself, 80 minutes after the
first impact. The north tower, WTC 1, then also collapsed at 10:30am,
105 minutes after being hit. WTC 7, a substantial 47 story office
building in its own right, built in 1987, was damaged and caught fire
and later in the afternoon also collapsed.
The list of collapsed buildings confirmed through Saturday by the
New York Times includes all seven buildings of the World Trade
center complex — including WTC 6, the U.S Customs House to the
north; WTC 3, the 22 story Marriot World Trade Center hotel just west
of Tower Two; and WTC 4 and 5, the Plaza Buildings to the east
(although satellite images suggest much of WTC 5, the north Plaza
Building, is still standing). Other nearby buildings are
significantly damaged, including in particular One Liberty Plaza, a
54 floor, 743' tall building across Church Street to the east.
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