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NEW YORK (WABC) -- The first piece of a nearly $4 billion redevelopment of the World Trade Center transportation hub debuted Thursday with the official opening of an underground concourse that passes through an area that has been closed since 9/11.
The gleaming, marble-paved expanse is expected to smooth the way for tens of thousands of commuters and visitors. It ultimately will feature retail outlets, but it offers something new right now: A passageway that links businesses and ferry service to the west of the trade center site to New Jersey-bound PATH trains and the rest of lower Manhattan to the east.
Prior to Sept. 11, pedestrians used a bridge over heavily traveled West Street. Since the attacks destroyed the bridge, they've used a temporary bridge or crossed the streets at street level. The temporary bridge is being dismantled and is not in use.
"The original World Trade Center site eliminated the street grid because that was the fashion of the times," Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive director Patrick Foye said at Thursday's ribbon cutting. "This restores that street grid and adds an underground grid that literally spans the length of lower Manhattan."
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DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)concourse. they had some great stores that were open till 7 pm and the E and F trains were right there which took me home to forest hills.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)hubby was in chicago on business -- called and woke me up to tell me.
back in the 70s i had a few temp jobs in the towers.
my friend lost his cousin that day. he worked for cantor fitzgerald. left a wife and 3 little girls. my friend's brother was a NYC cop when it happened. he was an alcoholic. i'm amazed that about 4 years ago he was able to stop drinking. he saw some awful things.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I watch those building fall to the ground here from Brooklyn.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)seeing it must have been traumatic. what part of brooklyn?