More pictures from WTC7 tour

More pictures from WTC7 tour

I think I've got all my best images over at NewYorkology, but I had a request for more, so I'm posting them here. Enjoy.





They're looking up at WTC 7 and to the right you can see the edge of the still damaged building belonging to the City University of New York. The LMDC web site says the CUNY building was damaged in the collapse of WTC7. The architect leading our tour said he wasn't sure if they've decided to tear down the CUNY building or try to repair it. His opinion was that it needed to come down. One guy on the tour said the problem was that it had only finished its own major renovation project 10 days before the Sept. 11 attacks.



The weird smudges you see near the World Financial Center pyramid are from the dirty glass of WTC7.





That lone conference table was the only piece of furniture on the entire floor.



This is looking directly down to the south of WTC7, into the pit of Ground Zero. Directly down the middle you can see where Greenwich Street would (will?) divide the site. You can also see they've marked the outlines (at right,) of the Twin Towers. Three PATH train tracks and the station are easy to see. They've been in operation for more than two years now. And there are also subway trains going through. The subway has been running through the site since just around the one-year anniversary of the attacks.





Dirty windows again here, but it's an amazing view with Liberty and Ellis islands in the harbor, and in the lower left you get a feeling for how big the black-shrouded Deutsche Bank building is. It may actually start coming down this summer, though the date keeps getting pushed back. It was in the news this week because they've just found nearly 300 more tiny human bone fragments, which will be analyzed for DNA since so many who died that day have never been tied to any remains.



Again there's the DB building in the front, but I like this for the perspective of the harbor. Closest to Manhattan is Governors Island, and to its left (including all those points jutting out,) is Brooklyn. Out to the distance on the center/right is Staten Island.













All of these pictures were taken from the top floor of the new World Trade Center 7 building, which is set to open soon. The elevtor button said we were on the 52nd floor, but according to discussion over at Curbed.com, apparently it is really what most people would consider the 47th floor. Either way, it's still only about half the height the main World Trade Center towers were.


- posted by Amy @ 4/16/2006 11:01:00 AM