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Brody Bond, this underground
museum opened in 2014,
and is a thorough testament
to the events of 9/11. With
poignant exhibits, personal
accounts and videos, and
countless artifacts recovered
from Ground Zero, the museum
details the events of September
11, 2001 informing visitors of
both the events that led up to
the attacks, and after.
The cavernous Foundation
Hall sits at the exhibition level,
and contains the structural
Flowers laid for victims of the attacks at the National September 11 Memorial remains of the Twin Towers.
A section of slurry wall remains,
7 National known as the Survivor Tree, which today protects the site
September 11 which miraculously survived from the Hudson River. There
Memorial the collapse of the World Trade is also a crushed FDNY fire
Center. The tree was originally
truck, and the iconic final
Greenwich St, between Fulton and planted in the 1970s, and piece of structural steel to be
Liberty Sts. Map 1 B2. Tel (212) 266- suffered grave damage during removed from Ground Zero,
5211. q Fulton St, World Trade Center, the September 11 attacks. It was referred to as the Last Column.
Cortland St, Rector St. Open 7:30am– replanted in the Van Cortlandt The September 11, 2001
9pm daily. 8 ∑ 911memorial.org Park in the Bronx, where it Historical Exhibition is at the
slowly recovered, before it was center of the museum, and
The moving memorial was built returned to its original spot by contains a host of images,
to commemorate the 10-year the memorial, in 2010. recordings, and videos that
anniversary of the terrorist cover the events of September
attacks of September 11 2001. 8 National 11 almost minute by minute.
The process began in 2003, when There are phone calls made by
the Lower Manhattan Develop- September 11 passengers from Flight 93,
ment Corporation launched an Memorial Museum which crashed in Pennsylvania,
international competition to photographs of the burning
design the memorial. A year later, Greenwich St, between Fulton and towers, and radio recordings
the Israeli architect Michael Arad, Liberty Sts. Map 1 B2. Tel (212) 266- of firemen in the towers just
employed at the landscape- 5211. q Fulton St, World Trade Center, before the collapse.
Cortland St, Rector St. Open 9am–
architecture firm Peter Walker & 8pm Sun–Thu (last entry 6pm), Tickets to the museum can
Partners, was selected for his 9am–9pm Fri & Sat (last entry 7pm). be purchased three months in
work Reflecting Absence. & 8 9 ∑ 911memorial.org advance, or visitors can queue
The two vast memorial pools for entry on the day. Note
represent the footprints of the Designed by the New York- queues can be long.
original towers, each almost based architectural firm David
one acre (0.40 ha) in extent. 9 One World
To mute the sounds of the
city, 30-ft (9-m) waterfalls were Trade Center
contructed on either side. The 285 Fulton St. Map 1 B2. Tel (844)
bronze parapets that encircle 696-1776. q World Trade Center,
the pools display the names Cortland St, Rector St. Open Late
of 2,977 victims of the attacks, May–early Sep: 9am–10pm
along with the six people killed daily (last entry 9:15pm); early
during the 1993 attack on the Sep–early May 9am–8pm daily
World Trade Center. (last entry 7:15pm). n & 0
The surrounding plaza is ∑ oneworldobservatory.com
studded with 400 swamp
white oak trees, intended to The tallest skyscraper in the
provide a meditative oasis United States, One World
within the city for later years; Trade Center stands at an epic
the trees can grow up to a height of 1,776 ft (541 m), and
height of 80 ft (24 m) at maturity, is a grand pinnacle of steel
and live between 300 to 350 and glass. The construction
years. The plaza is also home M27 steel impact display at the National of the building began in
to a callery pear tree, better September 11 Memorial Museum 2006, supervised by architect

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