World Trade Center (1973–2001), a ledger of building statistics

The buildings involved
Some were destroyed, fatally damaged and\or burnt out, or damaged, but still repairable after the 9\11 attacks.
 * 1) WTC 2 South Tower
 * 2) WTC 1 North Tower
 * 3) 7 World Trade Center
 * 4) St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (WTC)
 * 5) Marriott Hotel 3 WTC
 * 6) South Plaza 4 WTC
 * 7) U.S. Customs 6 WTC
 * 8) The Deutsche Bank Building on 130 Liberty Street
 * 9) World Trade Center station (PATH)
 * 10) 90 West Street
 * 11) Borough of Manhattan Community College 's Fiterman Hall
 * 12) World Financial Center buildings
 * 13) One Liberty Plaza
 * 14) Millenium Hilton
 * 15) FDNY 10 Firehouse
 * 16) 90 Church Street
 * 17) West St/Vesey St. bus stop and shelter
 * 18) The Verizon Building (140 West Street)
 * 19) The Verizon Building (375 Pearl Street)

Their backgrounds
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90 West Street (alternatively West Street Building) is a building in Lower Manhattan, New York City designed by architect Cass Gilbert and structural engineer Gunvald Aus for the West Street Improvement Corporation. When completed in 1907, the building's Gothic styling and ornamentation served to emphasize its 23-story height, and foreshadowed Gilbert's later work on the Woolworth Building. Originally built as an office building, the main tenant was the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and the top floor was occupied by Garret's Restaurant, which advertised itself as the "world's highest restaurant".

Located on West Street, between Cedar and Albany Streets, just south of the World Trade Center site, the building had a view to the Hudson River before Battery Park City was built on fill across West Street.

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WTC 1

 * Tallest building in the USA (both including and exclude the communication's mast)- 1972–1974
 * Tallest building in New York State 1971 (both including and exclude the communication's mast)- 2001.
 * Tallest building in New York City 1971 (both including and excluding the communication's mast)- 2001.
 * Tallest building in the world (both including and exclude the communication's mast)- 1971 to 1974.

WTC 1 and 2 jointly

 * Fist place to be 'plane slammed', that is deliberately hit by a civil liner as a act of war or terrorism!
 * The fact that is stayed up any time after having such heavy damage as 9/11. The 1970s engineering was obviously of a good quality since they could not have foreseen 9/11 or been up to preparing for such an event with only 1970s technology, yet they made it strong enough not to instantly collapses on impact with the jets flown in to it!
 * Most 'sky lobbies'- 1971 to 1974.
 * Most elevators- 1971 to 1974.
 * Building with the most floors- 1972–2001.
 * Tallest twin towers in the world- 1972–1998.

The Verizon Building (140 West Street)
The building has been called "one of the most significant structures in skyscraper design" through out it's history.

The Verizon Building (375 Pearl Street)
Paul Goldberger decried it at the time as the “most disturbing” of the phone company’s new switching centers because it “overwhelms the Brooklyn Bridge towers, thrusts a residential neighborhood into shadow and sets a tone of utter banality.” On April 3, 2012, the UK's online version of the Daily Telegraph showed 375 Pearl Street ranked 20th in a series of "the ugliest buildings in the world".

90 West Street
The "world's highest restaurant" in 1907.

Fate

 * 1) WTC 2 South Tower- Catastrophic damage and then a total collapse.
 * 2) WTC 1 North Tower- Catastrophic damage and then a total collapse.
 * 3) 7 World Trade Center- It can be assumed that heavy blast damage compromising the structural integrity of the building, which in turn lead to it's collapsed. Many windows were blown, but otherwise there was only minimal visible damage and modest fires.
 * 4) St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (WTC)- Crushed under debris.
 * 5) Marriott Hotel 3 WTC- Crushed under debris.
 * 6) South Plaza 4 WTC- Slightly damaged, some fires and many windows blown in by the blast.
 * 7) U.S. Customs 6 WTC- Reduced to ruins by falling debris and later demolished.
 * 8) The Deutsche Bank Building, 130 Liberty Street- Initially is sustained major impact damage from falling debris. It soon partly caught fire and was also slightly damaged in places by the fairs involved. It was later condemned as uninhabitable because of toxic conditions relating to levels chemicals, dust, water and mold inside the office tower. It was later deconstructed.
 * 9) The Verizon Building (375 Pearl Street)- suffered minor accidental fire damage but have been repaired.
 * 10) World Trade Center station (PATH)- Crushed under debris, but later rebuilt.
 * 11) 90 West Street- suffered major impact damage but have been restored.
 * 12) Borough of Manhattan Community College's Fiterman Hall- condemned due to extensive damage after being crushed by debris in the attacks, and is being rebuilt.
 * 13) World Financial Center buildings- had moderate damage and have since been restored.
 * 14) One Liberty Plaza- had moderate damage and have since been restored.
 * 15) Millenium Hilton- had moderate damage and have since been restored.
 * 16) 90 Church Street- had moderate damage and have since been restored.
 * 17) West St/Vesey St. bus stop- Crushed by falling debris.
 * 18) FDNY 10 Firehouse- closed for a couple of days as the roof and garage were cleared of dust, rubble, glass and other minor debris. It closed for about 1.5 years soon after when surveyors found impact related structural damage in the building that needed to be repaid. A memorial wall was added to the building when it was partly re-built.
 * 19) The Verizon Building (140 West Street)- suffered major impact damage but have been restored. The underground cable vaults belonging to Verizon, along with other underground utility infrastructure were also heavily damaged from water and debris.

6 plausible conspiracy theories



 * 1) The CIA ran Ossama BinLardin as a double agent to wind up gullible young would-be jihadists as a sinister black opps mission. When they did 9\11, the U.S. goverment used it to justify invading the Gulf, in which they betrayed Ossama BinLardin and planned to have him liquidated soon afterwards.
 * 2) The Twin Towers collapsed downwards (pancaking) instead of sideways in to the path of the aircraft like a tree falling on to the side the wedge is cut out of or away from them like a tree falling away from were a wedge is driven in to it.
 * 3) The American establishment ignored CIA, FAA, FBI, Pakistani, Saudi Arabian, Iranian, British, Libyan, Northern Alliance of Afghanistan and Malaysian security services' rumors and hints, as well as a few cryptic comments by Saddam Hussies and the Taliban.
 * 4) The Twin Towers were designed not to totally collapses due to the intrinsic value of how skyscrapers are made. The tops would have come down as well as the stuff that got blown up, but not a 100% collapses in to the foundations, unless it was either very heavily bombed at ground level or had the structural integrity of the buildings' steel core fatally compromised in the event or by either sabotage or poor construction work in it's building and\or casting at the steel mill prior to use.
 * 5) The FAA's command center contradicted Boston ARTCC by feeding misleading info such a wrong aircraft N-numbers, known pre-hijack flight data, post-hijack routes, last known locations, etc, on to NEADS' command center and\or NORAD so they could not find and shoot down the aircraft. This allowed the attack on the Pentagon (there was enough time to act) and possibly the attack on the second Twin Tower (the timing was close). The fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93, who crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted to take control before it could reach the hijacker's intended target in Washington, D.C., could also been shot down in time.
 * 6) 7 WTC collapsed after minimal visible damage and modest fires, in 7 second, with a full symmetry on-top of it's footprint in a collapse pattern reminiscent of controlled demolition of an unwanted office block or residential tower block.

Also see

 * 1) WTC
 * 2) CIS Tower
 * 3) Famous buildings
 * 4) Terrorism
 * 5) Terrorist organisations