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People walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed September 11, 2001, after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in a suspected terrorist attack.
The World Trade Center station is a terminal station on the PATH system, within the World Trade Center complex in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City.It is served by the Newark–World Trade Center line at all times, as well as by the Hoboken–World Trade Center line on weekdays, and is the eastern terminus of both.
Philippe Petit (French pronunciation: [filip pəti]; born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in August 1974.
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by the American author Mordicai Gerstein.Published in 2003, the book recounts the achievement of Philippe Petit, a French man who walked on a tightrope wire between the roofs of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in August 1974.
Twenty-three years since the 9/11 attacks, take a look at how the Financial District, the World Trade Center site, and Manhattan's skyline have changed.
It shows five people sitting on the banks of the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn while a cloud of smoke rises over Manhattan in the background. It emanates from the collapsed towers of the World Trade Center, which had been the target of a terrorist attack that day.
The 90 Church Street Station Post Office building is located adjacent to the new World Trade Center and the PATH station, and serves the ZIP code of 10007, which is assigned to the surrounding Tribeca neighborhood. The new World Trade Center does not use the ZIP code 10048; rather, it has been integrated within the existing 10007 ZIP code. [166]
At 1,776 feet tall, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. For fourth-generation ironworker, Tom Hickey, One World Trade Center consumed his life. He is one of ...