Photo, Print, Drawing World Trade Center Site, Bounded by Vesey, Church, Liberty Streets, & Route 9A, New York County, NY
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Title
- World Trade Center Site, Bounded by Vesey, Church, Liberty Streets, & Route 9A, New York County, NY
Names
- Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Yamasaki, Minoru
- Rockefeller, David
- Emery Roth & Sons
- Skilling, Helle, Christiansen & Robertson
- Mason, Anne, transmitter
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, sponsor
- The Louis Berger Group, Inc., contractor
- Bartelstone, John, photographer
- Harms, Bruce A., photographer
- Tilford, Eric J., photographer
Created / Published
- Documentation compiled after 1933
Headings
- - passenger terminals
- - commercial facilities
- - skyscrapers
- - financial facilities
- - Modern architectural elements
- - customs houses
- - hotels
- - plazas
- - elevators
- - parking garages
- - trade
- - business & finance
- - ruins
- - monuments & memorials
- - New York--New York County
Notes
- - Significance: The WTC Site is significant as the location of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the two 110-story towers of the WTC, attacks which constitute "historic events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history." In connection with the events of September 11, the WTC site is exceptionally significant in the history of the United States as the location of the events that immediately and profoundly influenced the lives of millions of American citizens and for its role in symbolizing and commemorating those events for survivors, families of victims, New Yorkers, Americans, and visitors from all over the world. The flying of two large commercial jetliners into the WTC's Twin Towers were the acts that precipitated numerous events of great magnitude, among them the deaths of an unprecedented number of individuals in a single location as the result of foreign attacks on American soil, and also actions, still unfolding, taken by the United States both at home and abroad in response to the attacks themselves and to the issues of global terrorism of which they were a part. The attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, caused the death of what is currently estimated to have been nearly 2,800 people. An immediate result of the attacks was a profound transformation in both local and national security. Shortly after the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights then within United States airspace and turned back all flights then coming into the country-something that it had never done before. The United States Office of Homeland Security (which later became the Department of Homeland Security) was established on October 8, 2001. In early October 2001, the United States and other members of the international community attacked and then invaded Afghanistan. The comprehensive federal response to the events of September 11, 2001, also included Congressional enactment of major legislation such as the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, the National Construction Safety Team Act, the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act, the United States Patriot Act, and the Terrorism Insurance Act of 2002, as well as far-reaching changes in foreign policy. The significance of the WTC Site is enhanced by the fact that the collapses of the Twin Towers were captured on film, witnessed on television by millions of people as they occurred, and have been replayed countless times all over the world. In addition to its direct association with the events of September 11, 2001, the WTC Site has already acquired significance as the primary place for commemorating the events that transpired there...It has been the location of countless memorials, ceremonial events, and private pilgrimmages....
- - Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1200
- - Survey number: HABS NY-6369
- - Building/structure dates: 1970 Initial Construction
- - Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
- - Building/structure dates: 2001 Demolished
Medium
- Photo(s): 103
- Data Page(s): 22
- Photo Caption Page(s): 8
Call Number/Physical Location
- HABS NY-6369
Source Collection
- Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Control Number
- ny2014
Rights Advisory
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
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Contributor
- Bartelstone, John
- Emery Roth & Sons
- Harms, Bruce A.
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Mason, Anne
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Rockefeller, David
- Skilling, Helle, Christiansen & Robertson
- The Louis Berger Group, Inc
- Tilford, Eric J.
- Yamasaki, Minoru