The suspense was over and we changed elevators at each of the three levels to finally reach the street level. There was a big crowd gathered just outside the WTC station taking snaps of the site. There were silent protests and people explaining the conspiracy theory behind 9/11 but it didn't looked very convincing to me.
WTC station was also damaged during the attack and it has been renovated. Outside the station there are photographs of tragic incident and how people fought back. There was a snap of a guy who was showing a poster of O+ - He was looking forward to donate the blood. There was another snap showing a person displaying poster - A room available for those who are lost. Those snaps were very touching and it showed how NY helped each other durin tough times.
In memory of those who were killed, there was a board listing names of all the people who were killed.
Board listing people who were killed in 9/11
If WTC existed, this building would have been dwarfed and would not have been visible from the street. Between this building and the station there existed WTC site.
Building behind the WTC
Photographs at WTC site
People have not lost heart and still have the courage to build under sky rise building at that site. The Freedom tower is under construction and currently work on basement is going on. The Freedom tower will be 1,776 ft (541 mt) and WTC was 1,727 ft (526.3 mt) so this is going to even taller than WTC . That height has been choosen as reference to the year of American Independence.
Construction site for Freedom Tower
Outside WTC subway
Proposed Freedom Tower
After seeing the area of construction site, I can just think of the size of building they had.
It was constructed during 1966-73 and was 110 storey and had 198 elevators.
After long tour of WTC site we moved to Wall street which was 5 min. walk from there.
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