7 World Trade Center
The tower that collapsed on September 11, 2001 — rebuilt, and the first building of the new World Trade Center to be finished.
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Opened May 23, 2006 on a smaller footprint than the 47-story original, the 52-story tower was built with safety up front: a reinforced concrete core, wider stairways, thicker fireproofing on the steel columns. It earned LEED Gold certification and joined the Green Building Council's Core and Shell pilot program.
What to look for
- Balloon Flower (Red), Jeff Koons's 9-foot stainless steel sculpture at the center of the plaza fountain
- The triangular park by David Childs and Ken Smith — an open plaza flanked by groves of sweetgum trees and boxwood shrubs
- The small park across Greenwich Street, sitting on land that was part of the original building's footprint
It stands on its own block — separate from the main 16-acre WTC site — bounded by Greenwich, Vesey, Washington, and Barclay Streets.
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More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.