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The Manhattan Skyline: Southern Tip

Lower Manhattan, as seen from the Hudson River, encompasses some
of the most striking modern additions to the city skyline, such as the
distinctively topped quartet of the World Financial Center. You will
also catch glimpses of earlier Manhattan: Castle Clinton set against
the green space of Battery Park and, behind it, Custom House. From
1973 until September 2001 the area also featured the World Trade
Center, a landmark destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attack. Locator Map
The One World Trade Center building (formerly known as Freedom The Southern Tip
Tower), on the northwest corner of the National September 11
Memorial and Memorial Museum site, was completed in 2013.

National September 11
Memorial and Memorial
Museum
Built on the site of the former
World Trade Center, the
National September 11
Memorial and Memorial
Museum pay tribute to the
nearly 3,000 people who
died in a terrorist attack on
the city (see p74).

An Earlier View
This 1898 photograph
shows a skyline that
is now changed
The Upper Room beyond recognition.
This walk-around
sculpture by Ned
Smyth is one of many
works of art in Battery
Park City (see p81).

Detail from The Upper Room

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