NEW YORK | Twin Towers of the WTC | 1368/1362 feet | 110 FLOORS | 1972/1973-2001

[mrnyc]

wtc logo preservation --
the wtc image used to be ubiquitous, now its become rare --

more:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wtc-l...ject_n_3907543

[mrnyc]

since we moved to staten i have been poking around at historic things online and found this:

victory blvd
at jersey st
1974

[mrnyc]

^ actually i think thats at victory & louis, but both have views.

this funny dancing around the wtc and the city clip is from the stoner classic the groove tube from 1974, which btw inspired snl:


https://youtu.be/lN3i93HD7AM

[worldtrade2021]

World Trade Centre Twin Towers prior to September 11th 2001 by SPECTRUM2008

As the old world trade center consisted of two tall (1300 or more ft) skyscrapers rather than one like currently, the image at 4:52 in the video can serve as a comparison to see how one single old WTC tower would look like from the same viewing angle and direction that the new One WTC is often filmed from (such as from the memorial looking north and up, at the south and east faces).

[Phil McAvity]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

It really is a shame i'll never get to see them in person.

Me neither, at least when I was a kid but as an adult I found them an affront to everything great architecture stands for, in other words, reprehensible and irredeemable

[NYguy]

lucas.buresch

[mrnyc]

^ very interesting view -- thats gotta be like 1970 or 1971.

my spouse's former office building would later be in the foreground just below the twins.

expect of course it wasnt even a thought yet -- 199 water st/one seaport plaza (b. 1984).

[MikeG]

I was browsing here back in sept and thought I came across a page where a local was posting pictures of the area around the WTC contrasting with pics from 9/11. I seem to not be able to find that thread.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by MikeG

I was browsing here back in sept and thought I came across a page where a local was posting pictures of the area around the WTC contrasting with pics from 9/11. I seem to not be able to find that thread.

if you find it post the link here. before/after threads are especially always welcomed. good luck!

[MikeG]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

if you find it post the link here. before/after threads are especially always welcomed. good luck!

I can't find it. I looked and looked. I really wanted to go back and see those pics.

[mrnyc]

a cool midway wtc construction video clip with aerials:


https://youtube.com/shorts/x4-lcPNElpQ?feature=share

[worldtrade2021]

https://twitter.com/CenterPictures/s...70922360999937

The angle this picture was captured from and the low clouds obscuring the middle portion of both of the twin towers really emphasize how tall and imposing the towers were on the Lower Manhattan skyline. What's more, this picture was apparently taken on September 10, 2001.

[mrnyc]

a sad reminder that 9/11 never ends and osama & his gang are still killing local responders:


After an 8-year battle with 9/11-related cancer, Staten Island NYPD Lt. Maureen Gill-Donohue succumbs to the disease. She was 57.

Published: Dec. 09, 2022


more:
https://www.silive.com/news/2022/12/...he-was-57.html

[RobEss]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

a sad reminder that 9/11 never ends and osama & his gang are still killing local responders

You spelled 'Saudi Arabian government' wrong...

[mrnyc]

for the anniversary --- a staten island advance article after the feb 26, 1993 bombing:



Staten Islanders recount harrowing tales of entrapment, escape from World Trade Center bombing of 1993. | From The Vault


EDITOR'S NOTE
This is the digitized version of an article that appeared in the Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993 edition of the Staten Island Advance, after the first terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Stephen Knapp of Great Kills was one of six persons killed on Feb. 26, 1993 when a bomb ripped through a subbasement at the World Trade Center. Sunday marks 30 years since the day of the attack.
Feb. 27, 1993

Staten Island residents were trapped in every imaginable corner of the huge complex that is the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan during yesterday’s disaster.


more:
https://www.silive.com/news/2023/02/...the-vault.html




A remaining shard of a memorial fountain to the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, after it was destroyed in the 2001 attack, is shown in this file photo. Staten Island Advance/Joshua Carp

[MolsonExport]

Twin Towers New York
some interesting stuff and floorplans. English is hit or miss.

[rgarri4]

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[mrnyc]

from duane street 1970
by famed nyc photographer camilio jose vergara

[mrnyc]

mine — from woodside queens the other day —

[mrnyc]

a video someone made that dips into some of the lost artwork at the wtc —


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