World+Trade+Center

By Adam, Grade 5

The World Trade Center was built in seven different buildings in Manhattan, New York City in 1968-1969.The World Trade Center was a place for international business. It was destroyed in September 11, 2001 by terrorists and planes. Engineers are building six new towers but there will be a memorial of the destruction and the deaths in the twin towers. From now on when they build sky scrapers they will be light weight and built with modern construction methods. The destruction in 2001 was big and it infected the whole nation and city. In March 1965 the Port Authority acquired property at the World Trade Center site. Demolition work began on March 21st, 1966 to clear 13 square blocks of low rising buildings and Radio Row for construction of the World Trade Center. To build the World Trade Center it was necessary to build a “bathtub” with a slurry wall around t he west street to keep water from getting in from the Hudson River. Construction began in 1968 on the North Tower. The South Tower was built in January, 1969. The original Hudson tub, carrying Path trains to Hudson Terminal, remained in service as elevated tunnels during the building process, until 1971 when a new station opened.

On February 13th 1975, three fire alarms went off in the eleventh floor of the North Tower. Fire spre ad through the 9th and 14th floors. The fire caused damaged all throughout the floors.media type="youtube" key="1lKZqqSI9-s" height="293" width="384" align="right"

On February 26th 1993 12:17 p.m. a Ryder truck filled with 1,500 pounds of explosives was planted by Ramzi Yousef in the North Tower. The basement of the building was damaged. On September 11th two p lanes crashed into North and South Towers, killing thousands of people. It was a tragedy. This led to two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 9/11 made President George Bush angry which made him think that Afghanistan and Iraq sent those men to crash into the Twin Towers.

Every year they will have a memorial in honor of the deaths and destruction.



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