9/11 attack: New York City subway station reopens after 17 years

BBC ^ | 09/09/2018 | BBC

[SpeedyInTexas]

A New York City subway station has reopened for the first time since it was destroyed 17 years ago in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack.

Cortlandt Street on the 1 line was buried under debris when the two World Trade Center towers collapsed after hijackers crashed planes into them.

On Saturday, people were welcomed into the newly renamed WTC Cortlandt station as the first train rolled in at midday.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've visited a number of observation decks of tall buildings...including the Burj Kalifa in Dubai (the world's tallest building) and the *new* WTC.But to me the best...BY FAR...was the outdoor deck of the old WTC.

Anyone who's ever experienced it will never forget it.

[SkyDancer]

Pentagon and the Empire State Building were built in eighteen months. Problem??

[from occupied ga]

Most New Yorkers are too self absorbed and too full of themselves (we live in “THE CITY!”) not to mention too stupid to understand something like that.

[bgill]

Sure, let’s advertise it and give some bozo an idea to shut it down again.

[usafa92]

Nice that they re-opened the station, but really not a need for it. The 2/3 from Fulton does the trick which you can now get to from WTC, plus Chambers still runs the 1.

[sushiman]

“New York doesn’t even have sense enough to be embarrassed that it took 17 years.”

In Tokyo it would have taken a year . ^_^