If you go to the one world trade center and go to the observatory deck, there's a special elevator you take that's part of the experience. There's screens as walls in the elevators. They show the history of lower Manhattan's skyline. You can see them built and disappear soon after. I got choked up both times I've seen it
@@Hotters9060 The new building has nothing to do with the 'government'. It was commissioned and approved by the Port Authority of New York. I always thought that instead of rebuilding the original towers, building two of the new towers would have been a way to satisfy both ends.
@@Hotters9060 Well, you have to understand that people suffered and died in those original towers and it becomes a symbolic/arbitrary thing after. I see why people wanted the towers rebuilt just as much as I see the reasons not to rebuild them. Also, I disagree because I believe rebuilding in the first place showed terrorists that they did not and cannot win. The towers were attacked because of economic power in the first place, and rebuilding shows economic strength/perseverance. The tower in itself is a success no matter how it looks; I understand your opinions nonetheless.
@@Hotters9060 It might seem like that now, but a building can't really be iconic with as young as the new World Trade Centre is. When the original towers were built, many people complained about them and said they did not fit New York's skyline(ie-they were "boxey" "out of place" "ugly"). Maybe it'll grow on you.
Both towers of original wtc required over six stories of dirt to be removed for each towers foundation to be poured which would also include the subterranean garage below the towers. That dirt would cost too much to haul a great distance so they simply dumped it into the water and created the landfill that is now Battery Park. So tecnically a part of the world trade center is still here. Something to think about while you're strolling through battery park.
Angelo Valavanis they will find a way for it to fall through. It was 4/19 the other day and not a single teacher at my school mentioned the murrah building bombing. I literally live in Oklahoma City and they didn’t mention anything about it
Super Fast Shaw then you must be living under a rock. I’ve known about the Oklahoma City Bombing since I was like 5 and I wasn’t even alive when it happened, it’s in every US History Textbook
@@ulrichfodze355 Remember one thing. Of the 3000 people killed, some were Muslim as well, those who committed that heinous atrocity simply viewed their brothers and sisters as 'collateral damage'.... Just goes to show how sick in the head the terrorists are. Nowhere in Islam are such acts permitted.
@@ulrichfodze355 You are stupid and ignorant ! All the terrorist groups combined during the last 30 years killed less than 3% of the what Madeleine Albright said it's ok to kill in one case and that was before 911. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RM0uvgHKZe8.html
I wasn't even aware that the skyline keeps growing to this day. I always assumed it had always been there. When you look at it from the outside it looks like there is virtually no more room for skyscrapers.
@@car2004 Trumps father (Fred Trump) never built real estate outside of Brooklyn. He was too intimidated to make deals in Manhattan. Donald Trump was the first to buy a piece of land in Manhattan in 1980 when he bought the condemned Commodore Hotel and rebranded it the Hyatt Hotel.
WTC was partly a inside job. The support beams where cut on a angle day or days before the planes hit. And there where demolition charges that went off after the planes hit. Only way those buildings came straight down like a controlled demolition.
@@MuffHam omg we got a "conspiracy theorist" here to explain how 9-11 was an inside job 😔😂 why would America destroy it's own building? Why would another country say it was them who did it if it was us. You are telling me that Osama bin laden was just some random dude who had nothing to do with 9-11?!?! 😭 i guess our educational system is really going downhill.
Here are missed ones (either not included or demolished and forgotten) 1905: 60 Wall Street, 27 stories (Demolished 1975 for the new 60 Wall Street) 1906: 2 Rector Street, 26 stories 1907: 90 West Street, 23 stories 1908: Singer Building, 41/47 stories (Demolished 1967-9 for One Liberty Plaza) 1908: City Investing Building, 34 stories (Demolished 1968 for One Liberty Plaza) 1910: Greater Whitehall Building, 31 stories 1910: Fidelity Casualty Building, 21 stories (Demolished 1968 for Zuccotti Park) 1928: Bank of New York Building, 48 Wall Street: 32 stories 1928: National City Bank Building, 52 Wall Street: 32 stories (Demolished 1982 for 60 Wall Street)
Worked on 175 Water and the Continental., World Financial Center, the Millennium, and the Trade Center rebuild. 35 years in local 1456 Dockbuilders.& Piledrivers.
Cause it was close to the twin towers and when they collapsed it damaged Building 7 so the government decided to drop it cause it would’ve collapsed anyways
Andrea González i hope you’ll at least get to go to the memorial site someday, its really touching. Especially as it has the names of every victim carved into the walls by the fountains.
Great job on this and thanks for sharing. I worked in over a dozen of those buildings in the Financial District between 2000-2015. Lots of great NYC memories from that time. Thanks again!
I lived there for two decades and it's my favorite city in the country and I've been all over. Your selection of music is perfect. It evokes our national power to build these.
You never mentioned one of the tallest and unknown buildings in 1950 that was a beautiful Art Deco piece being replaced with 60 a Wall Street building. It used to be a beautiful super high skyscraper (87 stories) and incredibly thin (12 meters around) after the first 37 stories that counted as a base to hold it. If you search up financial District 1950's then you will see just how tall it was; and yet no one remembers...
They should have shown that Battery Park City did not exist before 1970 and was made with land reclamation. Also after 1933-ish to 1960 not much development. Sad that 1933 is when the last of the beautiful buildings was built.
Also, any one who’s played a city or transportation game knows that at times cities can spend decades building out instead of up. The 50s were known for their extreme new sprawling suburbs being built for retuning soldiers and that happened especially on Long Island.
4:12 Yellow was the time before the World trade centre Green was when it was built Blue was when it lived its life and red was when it was gone. No matter what the year, its presence is there and will never be forgotten.
Watching this for the second time and I've just now noticed that Ground Zero is highlighted in green at the end...you kind of have to pause and look past the base of Freedom Tower.
ツXPLOD Their stark brutalist design simply couldn’t compare with the glamor and exuberance of the neo-gothic planning exhibited in the Woolworth Building.
It’s also cool to see a video I saw about buildings that also had several floors and were demolished to build bigger ones, which I, 48 years old, didn’t have the opportunity to see.
There are many megacities with countless skyscrapers these days. But NYC will always be the most magnificent one considering many of those skyscrapers were built in the past hundred years.
Imagine the Twin Towers and the World Trade Centre together, that'd be not only iconic but also amazing to see, sad to see a once iconic tower fall... :(
3:27 Man.. the new building 7 of the WTC is pathetic, ugly and basic, the Original Building was more beautiful and amazing than the shit we have today..
it is very incongruous to use modern names for the buildings when they were built. names like Verizon or Trump for buildings built in 1920s is inaccurate to begin with, but also misleading. you should use the original name, then the current name in parentheses. it is a bad flaw
