The World Trade Center site, often referred to as "Ground Zero" or "the Pile" immediately after the September 11 attacks, is a 14.6-acre area in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The site is bounded b
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1992
The site as it appeared twelve days after 9/11
Berenice Abbott's photograph showing Radio Row in 1936, with Cortlandt Street station seen in the background
The original World Trade Center complex
The New York Marriott World Trade Center, also known as 3 World Trade Center, was a 22-story, 825-room hotel in New York City, within the original World Trade Center complex in downtown Manhattan. It
The Marriott World Trade Center in 2001
The hotel during the September 11 attacks, after the second plane crash at 9:03 a.m. and before the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m.
The section of the hotel remaining after the towers collapsed, located at its south end