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The original World Trade Center opened

in New York City in 1973. The most famous


part of the complex of buildings was the
Twin Towers. They were named because
there were almost exactly the same. The
only difference is that one had a tall
antenna on the top.
When they were built, the 1,368-foot
tall buildings were the tallest in the
world. Such tall buildings needed a way for
people to travel in them. The towers had 95
elevators in total. Visitors used to travel to
the 107th and 110th floors, where there
were observation decks from which one
could see the entire city and New
Jersey. Inside there were offices, shops, a
hotel, and on the top floor of one of the
towers there was a restaurant called
"Windows on the World". The restaurant
even hosted a salsa night on Thursdays. A
number of subway lines ran underneath the
towers. The World Trade Center
Complex, with a total of seven
buildings, was so large that it had its own zip
code. In 1974 a French man walked a
tightrope between the twin towers.
The World Trade Center survived a
bombing in 1993. The skyline and spirit of
New York City were changed after
September 11, 2001. That morning, two
planes crashed into the World Trade
Center in downtown Manhattan. At first the
top floors of the buildings were in
flames. Soon they came tumbling
down, covering lower Manhattan in hot
metal and ash. A total of 2,753 people
died. For weeks the air smelled of burnt
metal and plastic. It took eight months for the
site to be cleaned. Years later, The World
Trade Center is rebuilding. There is a new
tower, called the Freedom Tower. There is
also a memorial and museum to honor those
who died in the 2001 attack.

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