World Trade Center development faces the past

Two waterfall voids mark the location of the former twin towers and form the centerpiece of a memorial plaza at the World Trade Center site. New high-rise construction continues on two sides of the plaza.

Sources: Silverstein Properties; Port Authority of New York. Graphic and interactivity by Matt Moody

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The next announcement was short, deliberate and astounding - a second plane had crashed into the other WTC tower. The news was almost incomprehensible.”

— Joseph Pescatello

I was on the 79th floor of the South Tower ... We heard a pop then a swoosh. A stream of debris crossed the sky.”

— Keith Webster

I ’ll never forget all of the children sitting on the curb of sidewalks.”

— Rodney Saucier

A plane shot into a building, ripping into it, and then we boarded our airplane. We sat down, buckled in and waited.”

— Jan Edwards

His first words were ‘I’m alive everyone else is dead.’”

— Clyde Brown

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