15 years ago, the most bloody and monstrous terrorist attack in the history of mankind took place. Two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center.
During this time, the world has only become more dangerous, and the bastards continue to kill innocent people. But life goes on.
Instead of two destroyed twin towers, several new skyscrapers were built under the same name World Trade Center and a memorial to the dead was opened.
1 The tallest of the building complex, WTC 1 or “Freedom Tower”, was opened in 2014. 
2 To get inside, you need to know one of the employees. Dima took me there newyork realty
working as a realtor in New York. But having acquaintances is not enough, you have to register and go through a check, like at the airport: send things to an X-ray scanner, and go through the metal detector yourself. After that, an elevator will be called for you, on which you can only go up to a few permitted floors. There are even two elevators: the first goes from the 1st to the 45th floor, the second from the 46th to the 90th. 
3 The sixty-fourth floor is an observation deck. 
4 How many times I have been to New York, I have never climbed the tourist lookouts. Useless waste of money. On your own, you can look at a no less spectacular view, but more original. In this case, alas, the glass interferes, but one day we climbed onto the roof of a freshly built 80-story skyscraper, and there was beauty there! 
5 Twenty floors above is the coworking itself. Public space occupies one floor, two more houses meeting rooms, mini-offices and a dining room for tenants. 
6 Outwardly, it does not differ much from an ordinary office, the only difference is that there are almost no assigned places. People come and go when they need to. But in this case, you need to carry your own little things with you. 
7 If you can't work without your favorite mug, foot mat and dog photo, the hot table is not for you. An unsecured seat, when you take any free table, costs $450 per month. 
8 There are 155 co-working spaces in the network, and membership gives you the opportunity to work in any of them. There are four locations in New York alone. There are also in the USA in Chicago, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, but the main thing is that there are the same coworking spaces in dozens of countries around the world: do you want to work from Australia? Please have offices in Sydney and Melbourne. 
9 Traveling in China and urgently need an office? Look for the nearest one in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai or Guangzhou. Brought a hard one to Lebanon? Even Beirut has one. In Russia and Ukraine - alas, so far the offices have not been opened. 
10 Every office worker dreams of being freed from "slavery" and becoming a freelancer. Every freelancer sooner or later realizes that working in an office is more efficient. This is how co-working spaces appeared, which today are growing like mushrooms, and all over the world. 
11 You can come here to work just for the sake of this view! 
12 If urbanism and tall, narrow towers excite you, the views from the window will give you +10 efficiency! 
13 When you look at New York from above, it really motivates. 
14 In place of the twin towers, there is now a memorial park with two pools (one is visible in the photo), following the contours of the buildings. 
15 Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. 
16 Below, the usual New York life seethes. 
17 Rooftop air conditioners are a great way not to disfigure building facades. 
18 Statue of Liberty - in full view! 
19 Verrazano Bridge, one of the largest suspension bridges in the world. 
20 Coworking residents can take a break from work by playing board games, ping pong or shuffleboard. 
21 This is a kind of tabletop curling, the game board needs to be sprinkled with salt so that the puck slides better. 
22 I've never seen anything like this before! 
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Thank you very much for the tour Dima
In the United States, al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger planes, flying two of them at the symbol of business New York, the World Trade Center Tower, and the other two at the Pentagon and, presumably, at the White House or the Capitol. All aircraft, except the last one, reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
New York District Judge George Daniels ruled in absentia, ordering Iran to pay $7.5 billion to the families and other members of those who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The judge determined that the Iranian authorities must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage and other material losses. Earlier, Judge Daniels ruled that Tehran was unable to prove its non-involvement in assisting the organizers of the attack, and therefore the Iranian authorities bear a share of responsibility for the damage caused during it.
On the site of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2011 was the World Trade Center Memorial. It consists of two square pools-fountains, located right at the bases of the former twin towers, along the inner walls of which water streams cascade down, leaving into square holes located at the bottom of each of the pools.
The names of the 2,983 victims of the attacks (including the six who died in the 1993 World Trade Center attack) are carved on the bronze slabs that line the parapets of both fountains.
The new World Trade Center complex was opened. It is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the world - its height is 541 meters. Construction began in April 2006 on the corner of a 65,000-square-meter site where the twin towers of the demolished mall used to stand.
Celebrated in the United States as Patriot Day, since 2009, after the approval of Act 111-13 of the General Law of the United States, this date is also referred to as the nationwide Day of Service and Remembrance.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
August Tobin decided to carry out a grandiose project. He was supposed to be a lever for making huge money. Architect - Minoru Yamasaki made dreams of a grandiose building come true. The original plan called for the construction of twenty-one buildings. The project was completely ready by 1949, but it was suspended.
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David Rockefeller returned to the idea, whose goal was to improve the appearance of the city in its port part. The architect in 1965 completely redid the project. He rejected the possibility of building many buildings and proposed the creation of two towers, which would consist of eighty floors. By 1970, the foundation had already been installed, and three years later the buildings were ready for operation. There is a version that the twin towers in New York were designed taking into account the ramming of the Boeing 707.
The tragedy of September 11, 2001
In 2001, a second demolition attempt was made. 102 minutes dragged on for an eternity. At 8:46, under the blow of a Boeing, controlled by terrorists, the first tower fell, and at 10:28, according to the same scenario, the second. These moments are captured on video. In just a few minutes, the most massive disaster of our time occurred. Three thousand people died in it, and the fate of another 24 remained unknown. The suicide attack claimed the lives of people and destroyed the symbol of freedom.
Video: September 11, 2001 terrorist attack: Twin Towers
Memory of tragedy
Not all foreigners know what is now on the site of the twin towers. The tragedy was not forgotten and two memorials were erected in memory of this mournful day. They were located at the site of the fall of the twin towers and received the name Ground zero. Two granite pools with iridescent water are framed by bronze plaques with the names of those who died in that disaster. They occupy exactly the territory on which the foundations of the destroyed buildings stood. The memory memorial is surrounded on all sides by high-rise buildings, one of which was erected after the terrorist attack and is designed to replace the towers.
Twin Towers - Rising from the Ashes
In the period after the Second World War, relations between the countries were very tense. China's expectation of a revolution, the devastation in Europe, the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Japan, all take their toll on economic opportunities. Only the United States escaped severe shocks and expanded its power. The dollar became a convertible currency, and construction reached an unprecedented scale.
According to the plans of the New York ruling elite, international trade will begin in the country in the near future, for which conditions must be created. For this purpose, a construction program was developed. It was supposed to build the World Trade Center 1. Due to the cold war between the two most powerful powers, construction was postponed indefinitely.
New World Trade Center 1 in New York
To the west of the site of destruction on the square on November 21, 2006, the foundation of the new World Trade Center was laid. It was erected for seven years, like the towers destroyed by the explosion. Four billion dollars were spent on the construction. The new World Trade Center 1 becomes the answer to terrorism.
Source: yandex.kz Its scale exceeds all existing not only in the US, but throughout the West. The building is 541 meters high and crowned with a spire weighing seven hundred tons. From the windows of the Freedom Tower you can see the memorial of memory. This composition has become a worthy response to terrorism that encroached on the lives of ordinary Americans.
The modern Freedom Tower is positioned as a retail and office building. It is full of showrooms, business premises, movie screenings, as well as cafes and restaurants. From the outside, the building has a spiral shape and glass trim, done in blue tones at the top. Below, it resembles light-trapping prisms. A huge spire goes up into the sky, significantly increasing the height of the structure.
Access to the offices inside is given by a large hall, which has a height of more than twenty meters. The upper floors are given over to restaurants. The tower is also equipped with observation decks that offer stunning views of New York. In addition to the ground, there is also an underground part, with an abundance of halls and passages. From it you can go to the subway or to the railway station.
Each grandiose building sooner or later acquires true and fantastic stories. Both those and others are perceived by tourists as the truth. But some facts are really true:
- most of the funds allocated for the construction were aimed at ensuring security from terrorist attacks;
- the height of the building is 1776 feet, in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was adopted in the country, which is very symbolic and was thought out in advance;
- the building is decorated with glass panels, which reduced construction costs by twenty percent;
- the memorial of memory, according to analysts, is very often visited, but is the most tasteless building of the modern city.
World Trade Center 1 employs a large number of people and is also the largest shopping and entertainment center in the country.
Information for tourists
For those who arrived in the city with an excursion group, there will be an opportunity to visit the Freedom Tower. It is included in the mandatory city tour program. The building also has access for independent tourists. To get to the observation deck, you need to purchase a ticket for thirty dollars, go up to the 100th, 101st or 102nd floors and admire the views. High-speed elevators with an information function deliver to the desired level. On the built-in displays, during the trip, you can see the stages of the formation and development of the city. A New York Pass can be purchased for free access to a number of attractions.
At the initial stage, after the completion of construction, people were afraid to rent offices in the building. The owners waited long enough for all the premises to be filled. Over time, the fear that was in the air after the disaster became less tangible. Now WTC 1 is open and accepting visitors.
The twin towers of the World Trade Center have been a symbol of the financial power of the United States and New York for almost three decades, and as a result, today they are associated with one of the most tragic events in recent history - the September 11 attacks. However, it will not be superfluous to take a look at the undoubtedly unique history that the Twin Towers had.
The decision that an ultra-modern office complex would be built in an inconspicuous part of Lower Manhattan was made back in the early 60s of the last century. New York was undergoing significant renovation during those years, so it was only logical that Chase Manhattan developer and chairman David Rockefeller and his brother, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, came to the conclusion that such a massive project was needed in what was then a rather shabby part of the city. . In 1962, under the leadership of the Port Authority, planning began for the complex, the author of which was the famous American architect of Japanese origin, Minoru Yamasaki. His idea to build two huge towers, the likes of which no city in the world knew then, caused a lot of controversy. In particular, many noted that they would simply disfigure the appearance of the city.
Nevertheless, in 1966, construction began, which lasted 7 years and encountered many difficulties. To begin with, 164 buildings had to be demolished, five streets closed, and 1.2 million cubic yards of earth removed, from which Battery Park City would become. At one time, up to 3,500 workers could work at a construction site. In total, about 10,000 people were involved in the construction of the towers, of which 60, alas, did not live to see the completion of construction.
The structure of the towers was very atypical for its time - avoiding masonry, the engineers used special steel beams that run along the entire height of the building. There were 61 such beams on each side. The columns of the towers were clad in aluminum and spaced only half a meter apart, so that from a distance the twin towers might have looked like buildings with no windows at all. The ceilings between the floors consisted of concrete slabs and corrugated steel and were attached to the outer load-bearing walls.
Particular attention was paid to the elevators, which were designed specifically for the towers by Otis. A total of 239 elevators with a carrying capacity of over 4.5 tons were installed. Opened on April 4, 1973, the North and South towers were 417 and 415 meters high, respectively, and the north one was also crowned with a huge antenna. In total, the towers had 110 floors, and at the time of construction they were the highest skyscrapers on the planet.
Act of terrorism
The twin towers had a lot of tests. The first really serious disaster was a fire in 1975 that broke out on the 11th floor, and then spread in the space between the 9th and 14th.
However, these were still flowers compared to the terrorist attack of 1993, when on February 26, a truck with 680 kilograms of explosives was blown up in the underground parking of the North Tower. The result was a 30-meter hole, which “decorated” 5 underground floors at once, and a serious smoke in the building, which was felt even on the upper floors. Five people were killed, and the perpetrator of the attack, Ramzi Youzef, managed to escape to Pakistan. However, he was soon caught and extradited to the States, where he was awaited by a life sentence.
Alas, after the first terrorist attack, the WTC buildings remained standing for only eight and a half years. It all ended on September 11, 2001, when two terrorist attacks destroyed both towers.
First, at 8:46, a hijacked American Airlines flight 11 collided with the North Tower. Its impact fell on the northern facade of the building between the 93rd and 99th floors. At the same time, as a result of this blow, a strong fire broke out, and all possible exits for those who were on the upper floors were blocked, thus more than a thousand people were trapped.
Seventeen minutes after the first attack, another United Airlines plane hijacked by terrorists, flying number 175, crashed into the South Tower. the space closer to the corner of the tower turned out to be damaged, one flight of stairs remained intact, which saved many lives.
The South Tower collapsed first at 9:59 a.m., as its load-bearing structures were badly damaged by an aircraft impact and a fire that broke out after. In the North Tower, the fire lasted 102 minutes, so it collapsed a little later - at 10:28.
Also on September 11, but in the evening, the seventh building of the WTC complex collapsed. As a result, it was necessary to get rid of all the buildings of the World Trade Center as not subject to restoration and further use. The same fate befell the adjacent Marriott Hotel, damaged by the wreckage of the towers, and the Deutsche Bank building, which was subsequently dismantled.
The total number of victims of these terrible terrorist attacks in New York is estimated at 2,752 people - that's how many death certificates were issued by the authorities. Nevertheless, it is often emphasized that if the strikes occurred not in the morning, but at the height of the working day, then there could be many times more victims, since there were usually about 50 thousand people in the towers at the same time during these hours.
After the terrorist attacks, a huge number of stories appeared about how many people, due to various domestic or transport problems, did not have time to work, which ultimately saved their lives. Among all companies, the largest number of victims - 658 - fell on Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., located on floors 101-105 of the North Tower. Also, 343 New York firefighters, 84 Port Authority employees and approximately 60 police officers died immediately in the attacks.
In the recent history of both the United States and the whole world, such victims as a result of terrorist attacks are something completely unprecedented and truly horrifying. It is safe to say that September 11 was the first such event in the history of the new millennium, after which we can say that the world has really changed.
It has been 16 years since the terrible fall of the Twin Towers in America on September 11, 2001. But memories of that day still haunt millions of Americans. The fates of many people have been changed forever.
How many people died?
In addition to American citizens, representatives of other countries were also among the dead. Among the dead were 96 citizens from the former Soviet Union. At the end of the search and rescue operations, experts stated that approximately 10,000 fragments of human bones and tissues were found at the site of the fall of buildings, which significantly increases the initial statistics of the incident. Fragments were found much later, in 2006, when Deutsche Bank was reconstructed. The average age of the dead was 40 years.
Course of events
On September 9, terrorists hijacked four planes and were able to send two of them to the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and one to orient to the Pentagon. The remaining plane crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers were able to overcome the hijackers.
The day that began with a clear blue sky ended in a twisting mass of smoldering charcoal from twisted metal where the huge buildings of the mall once stood. As a result of this incident, 2977 people died.
People's memory
The tragedy of 9/11 happened almost two decades ago. A quarter of Americans are too young to remember this disturbing event. “I have three children who do not remember the incident at all, since they have not yet been born. But we certainly do not want to forget, even when we live and face new challenges,” says one of the Americans.
Thus, in memory of that day, 23 images hang here, which serve as a reminder of what no American should forget. The tragedy has taken on a massive scale. Witnesses to what happened can tell a lot.
The twin towers of the World Trade Center were symbols for New Yorkers. For decades, people looked up to them, and the structures were unshakable. It was a reassuring sight. According to the memoirs of the American, he visited the towers many times and looked at them many times. On the morning of September 11, he had just finished voting in Brooklyn when he looked up and saw that one of the towers was on fire. Just a few minutes later, the second plane crashed into another tower. Something was wrong.
When President George W. Bush was informed of the tragic incident, he was at a school function at the time. The expression on his face, captured in the photograph, expresses almost all emotions. At that time, none of the members of the government knew what serious consequences this terrorist attack had for the country.
major fire
The impact of the two fire jets was devastating. It broke the steel structure of the towers and contributed to the fires that eventually led to the destruction of the buildings. Combat aircraft took to the skies. Every non-military flight in US airspace was ordered to land.
Thousands of people were in a real trap on the upper floors of the towers. Many died instantly when the planes crashed into the structures, and many more died when fires broke out and the towers began to collapse. Some citizens jumped out of windows to avoid fire and smoke. A total of 2,606 people died in the towers.
The weather was wonderful, the sky was bright blue. The wind carried a massive plume of smoke over the city and New York Harbor. “Manhattan looked like it had exploded 10 megatons,” wrote British writer Martin Amis later.
Terrible outcome
The structure of the towers was so damaged that their collapse was an inevitable consequence of the impact. At that time, however, no one expected such a terrible outcome. People on the streets around the World Trade Center were running in panic. Buildings began to sink one by one and fill the streets with rubble and dust.
Fires burned for hours and smoldered for days in a mass of twisting steel and rubble. Lower Manhattan, below 14th Street, will later be closed to non-rescue traffic.
The area around the World Trade Center was the scene of total devastation. Smoke and dust hung in the air. Countless cars, trucks and rescue vehicles were destroyed.
Destroyed tower structure
A sense of tragedy was everywhere. The New York City Fire Department lost its chaplain, Reverend Michael, who was killed by falling debris.
Little remains of the elegant facades of the Twin Towers, which Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki designed to include narrow window openings and soaring arches.
The two 110-story towers dominating the city were compressed into a twisted mass of molten metal. Welders spent months cutting away the steel so that the damaged structure could be dismantled.
rescue work
Members of the New York City Fire Department rushed to the scene and suffered incredibly high casualties among their workers in an attempt to rescue people from the burning towers. As a result, 343 members of the brigade died during the extinguishing operation. Strong men could not stand it, tears flowed down their cheeks every now and then.
In the following days, rescuers arrived in New York from neighboring cities and states. The sight of bodies in the wreckage led to indescribable horror. A contrasting sign of inflexibility was the moment when American flags were raised over the site of the tragedy.
Close people posted photos of missing friends and family members in the desperate hope that they might be alive.
The tragedy brought everyone together
A city held together is something that many Americans have never seen. Citizens lined the streets to cheer the National Guard and rescuers as they arrived in Manhattan on a mission that became known as Ground Zero.
The Americans were seized with a thirst for revenge. Soon national troops were stationed in Afghanistan.
These attacks were not limited to New York. The Pentagon also received a powerful blow that killed 125 people.
The view of the Pentagon was also terrifying, but the military headquarters building itself did not collapse.
A new tower has risen to Ground Zero along with the memorial. This gave many Americans a sense of pride at the time of its discovery. But this is not enough to make people forget this terrible day, on which many lives were cut short. America itself at this moment has changed radically.
The new architecture of lower Manhattan towers proudly over New York City. Here is the famous Oculus, from where you can once again look at the vast expanse of the city from above.
commemorative memorial
In memory of the huge losses during the terrorist attacks of 2001 in New York, a museum was opened, the exposition of which is constantly expanding. According to American media reports, the memorial was visited by more than 900 thousand people.
Here you can see fragments of the frame of steel skyscrapers, a mangled firefighters car that participated in putting out the fire, many photographs depicting those who died on that ill-fated day, and amazing videos.
Viewers can also see the jacket of a fighter who took part in the elimination of the largest terrorist Osama bin Laden, and a symbolic coin that belonged to a CIA officer who tracked down a dangerous terrorist.
The exhibits presented in the memorial provide citizens with the opportunity to pay tribute to the courage of the many people who sacrificed their lives for their country.
