A New York City subway station has finally reopened, 17 years after being shuttered when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in the 9/11 terror attack.
The Cortlandt Street station on the No. 1 line ran under the World Trade Center.
The new stop, which was opened Saturday, will now be known as WTC Cortlandt in honor of the site, according to reports.
The station took so long to reopen because the Port Authority kept it shuttered while it was busy working on the rest of the reconstruction of the World Trade Center complex, the New York Post reported.
The station cost $181.8 million and features a mosaic by artist Ann Hamilton including text from the 1776 Declaration of Independence, The New York Times reported.
“It’s long overdue,” Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, told the paper. “It was a major challenge to rebuild the subway at the same time you’re rebuilding the site above it.”
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The Cortlandt Street station on the No. 1 line ran under the World Trade Center.
The new stop, which was opened Saturday, will now be known as WTC Cortlandt in honor of the site, according to reports.
The station took so long to reopen because the Port Authority kept it shuttered while it was busy working on the rest of the reconstruction of the World Trade Center complex, the New York Post reported.
The station cost $181.8 million and features a mosaic by artist Ann Hamilton including text from the 1776 Declaration of Independence, The New York Times reported.
“It’s long overdue,” Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, told the paper. “It was a major challenge to rebuild the subway at the same time you’re rebuilding the site above it.”
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