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"Tragically, 60 people were killed during construction. During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders" That is unusually high number of death during construction. After 25 years, I still get emotional looking at these imageries. The emotion is raw. I'm still mad that this happened.
Most high rises taper, but these towers just went straight up as rectangles. And the effect was almost dizzying. They were just so tall.
I used to love drawing the NYC skyline as a kid — such an iconic thing. New York used to be much grittier, but I loved the energy of it as a kid. Was an incredible thing to experience.
I'm not an American, I've only ever been to NYC once in 2014, and I was only 8 when 9/11 happened, but somehow, seeing that skyline with those two towers still in it, evokes the feeling of simpler, friendlier times. Even though in the 90s, my own country was going through the troubles of recovering from 70 years of socialism — it was anything but simpler friendlier times.
(I'm not saying this was good. It was a terrible tragedy. The attack itself obviously, and then what followed as well.)
"Tragically, 60 people were killed during construction. During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders" That is unusually high number of death during construction. After 25 years, I still get emotional looking at these imageries. The emotion is raw. I'm still mad that this happened.
My parents worked and had most of their friends in Manhattan when I was a little kid — this was back in the 1980s. I have vivid memories to this day of passing the World Trade Center and being completely overwhelmed by the scale of it. Most high rises taper, but these towers just went straight up as rectangles. And the effect was almost dizzying. They were just so tall. I used to love drawing the NYC skyline as a kid…
I could ramble for hours about all the things I loved about the trip, but one of the things that stuck out was all the young kids taking the subway by themselves or in small packs of friends out pretty late etc. They all seemed so much more street smart and independent than my own similar aged kids (we live in a quiet neighborhood in Seattle). I also grew up fairly sheltered in the suburbs where I had very little exposure to the “real world” as they say…
I’d be fascinated to hear more about what it’s like to grow up in such a massive city.
> The material expenditures on the towers were enormous; 192,000 tons of steel, 425,000 cubic yards of concrete, 43,600 windows with 572,000 square feet of glass, 1,143,000 square feet of aluminum sheet, 198 miles of ductwork, and 12,000 miles of electrical cable. The towers also provided an extraordinary employment opportunity for the construction workers of the region. More than 3,500 people were employed continuou…
I couldn’t find any evidence of the birth of 17 babies. The claim may be confused with the approximately 100 babies born to women whose husbands died in the 9/11 attacks. I also couldn’t find any evidence for the 19 murders. Six people were killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which was an act of terrorism. Plus 9/11.
https://npdf1.org/crime-scene-world-trade-center/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti
"Tragically, 60 people were killed during construction. During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders" That is unusually high number of death during construction. After 25 years, I still get emotional looking at these imageries. The emotion is raw. I'm still mad that this happened.
I'm still mad, and I'm not even American. Even over here in Germany, it was a massive shock wave that went through society and I still remember the day it happened vividly. The effects in society are felt to this day.