One World Trade Center
The building rises exactly 1,776 feet, a number pointing straight to the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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It's the tallest building in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, and seventh-tallest in the world. It stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, carrying the same name as the North Tower destroyed on September 11, 2001, with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum just to the south.
What to look for
- The spire's height of 1,776 feet (541 m), a deliberate reference to 1776
- 94 stories, yet the top floor is numbered 104
- The National September 11 Memorial & Museum just south, where the original Twin Towers stood
The building opened November 3, 2014; the One World Observatory opened May 29, 2015.
One World Trade Center is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
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.