Photos from a visit to the The National September 11 Memorial & Museum + surrounding area…
The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools. The roses are placed on the names when it is their birthday. The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and are the largest manmade waterfalls in North America, situated within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood.
Featured above (at random):
- A section of steel facade from the North Tower, floors 96-99 (the point of impact where Flight 11 pierced the building)
- Slurry Wall Segment & Last Column – the piece of steel featured in this photo was chosen to symbolically mark the completion of the WTC site recovery & removed on May 30, 2002. Many relatives and workers signed it prior to its removal.
- Vesey Street Stair Remnant (“The Survivors’ Stairs”)
- Segment of radio & television antenna, North Tower; The transmission tower was 360 feet tall and started broadcasting TV signals in 1980. In 2000 it included the installation of a HDTV master antenna.
- The largest elevator motor ever installed at the time of its installation; this powered one of the express service cars, which moved at a speed of 1,600 feet per minute. The Twin Towers were the first skyscrapers to employ a system of local and express elevators. This innovation reduced trave time. Each tower had 99 elevators (freight, local, and high-speed express cars).
- FDNY Ladder Company 3 Truck – the front cab was shorn off when the North Tower collapsed
- Freedom Tower
- World Trade Center Transportation Hub “Oculus” completed in 2016
- Bell of Hope near St. Paul’s Chapel