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The World Trade Center
Four Square-block Site
Two 110-story buildings (#1 and #2)
 50,000 occupants by 10:00 on an ordinary Tuesday
morning
12,000,000 square feet of office and retail space
VHF and FM broadcast antennas
"Windows on the World" restaurant
| One 50+ story building (#7, a block North, on Vesey St.) |
| Marriott Vista Hotel (#6) |
| US Customs House (#5) |
| Two low-rise office buildings (#3 and #4) |
| Two-story underground shopping mall |
| Four-story underground parking garage |
| Major telephone and electrical substations |
| Commodity Exchange vaults |
| Three NYC Subways (MTA) stations for the N, R, Q, 1, 9 and E
lines |
| Terminal for PATH trains to NJ on Newark and Hoboken lines |
A Perfectly Ordinary Tuesday Morning
Surrounding Blocks
| North: |
#7 WTC, Church Street Post Office, Western Union
Building |
| East: |
One Liberty Plaza (50-story building)
East River Savings Bank (Century 21)
Millennium Hotel
195 Broadway (30+ story building)
St. Paul's Chapel
Subway stations for A, C, 4 and 5 Lines |
| South: |
130 Liberty Street (50-story building)
Firehouse
Low-rise office/ retail
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church |
| West: |
Battery Park City Development:
- Four fifty-story office towers
- Winter Garden Plaza
- Shopping and dining
- 50,000 Apartments
- NY Commodity Exchanges
- Stuyvesant High School
- Ferry Terminal to NJ
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All of this is kept out of the basement of the WTC development by
an underground seven-story seawall known as "The Bathtub".
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