World Trade Center

World Trade Center (HM2F4M)

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N 40° 42.601', W 74° 0.681'

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Misoru Yamasaki, with Emery Roth and Sons, 1966-67

—Heritage Trails New York —

World Trade Center
Misoru Yamasaki, with Emery Roth and Sons, 1966-67
Heritage Trails New York
What has 200 elevators, 1,200 restrooms, 40,000 doorknobs, 200,000 lighting fixtures, 7 million square feet of acoustical tile ceilings, more structural steel than the Verrazano Narrows Bridge - and was built for a final cost of over one billion 1970s dollars? That's right, the World Trade Center, built by the Port Authority on New York and New Jersey, as part of a plan conceived by the Rockefeller-led Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, to shore up Downtown's fortunes.
Now, every weekday, 50,000 people come to work in 12 million square feet of office, hotel, and commercial space in the seven buildings in this city-within-a-city, where they are joined by 80,000 visitors, passing through an enormous interior shopping mall below the 5-acre Austin. J. Tobin Plaza.
The Trade Center welcomes visitors from around the world to a splendid observatory, the Top of the World on the 107th floor of Two World Trade center. As many as 10,000 visitors in a single day ride the non-stop express elevators - from the lobby to the 107th floor in 82 seconds - to take in the spectacular views of the city and its surroundings.
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HM NumberHM2F4M
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Placed ByHeritage Trails New York
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Date Added Monday, March 25th, 2019 at 11:04am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 583510 N 4507036
Decimal Degrees40.71001667, -74.01135000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 42.601', W 74° 0.681'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 42' 36.06" N, 74° 0' 40.86" W
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