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New York subway station damaged in 9/11 attacks opens just before 17th anniversary

New York subway station damaged in 9/11 attacks opens just before 17th anniversary

  • Written by Jason Axelrod
  • 12th September 2018

New York City’s Cortlandt Street subway station was finally reopened 17 years after it was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on September 11.

Located beneath the World Trade Center, the Cortlandt Street station on New York’s No. 1 subway line was once a heavily used station, CBS reports. But as the twin towers fell on September 11, 2001, parts of the towers fell through the terminal.

“We basically had dozens of floors of a huge building falling from 600 feet right on top of our roof. It was like a pile driver,” John Ferrelli, then-chief of infrastructure for the subways, told the New York Times in 2001.

Three days before the 17th anniversary of the attacks, the state-owned Metropolitan Transit Authority unveiled the rebuilt station, now called WTC Cortlandt, according to NPR. It’s one of the final parts of the World Trade Center complex to reopen following the attacks, CBS reports.

“The opening of WTC Cortlandt returns a subway station to a vibrant neighborhood and represents a major milestone in the recovery and growth of downtown Manhattan,” MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said in a statement, per NPR. “WTC Cortlandt is more than a new subway station. It is symbolic of New Yorkers’ resolve in restoring and substantially improving the entire World Trade Center site.”

Rebuilding the site was long delayed, however. It only began in 2015 after the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey handed control of the project to the MTA, according to the Times. The new station cost $181.8 million to build.

“It’s long overdue,” Mitchell L. Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, told the Times. “It was a major challenge to rebuild the subway at the same time you’re rebuilding the site above it.”

The new site is easier to navigate, with three elevators and fewer columns than before, the Times reports. It also has electronic signs that provide real-time train information.

Additionally, it contains a mosaic of American and Italian marble that contains text from the Declaration of Independence and the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the New York Post reports.

“Even though we fell, we were able to get back up,” Andre Collazo, 64, a graphics technician from the Bronx, told the Times. “It’s important in the sense that we’re strong, we’re resilient.”

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