World Trade Center

Here is a video of the World Trade Center in New York City. This video if available in HD. Please subscribe! The original World Trade Center was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan in New York City that was destroyed in the attacks that took place on September 11 2001. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. At the time of their completion, the first 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center were the tallest buildings in the world, surpassing the Empire State Building, which is also in Manhattan. The cost for the construction was $400 million ($2,169,167,354 as of 2011). The original World Trade Center was designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1960s using a tube-frame structural design for the twin 110-story towers. In gaining approval for the project, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agreed to take over the Hudson Manhattan Railroad, which became the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (