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2 unusual facts about World Trade Center site


Rock Abrasion Tool

The cable shield of each RAT is made from aluminum recovered from the World Trade Center site after the September 11 attacks.

World Trade Center site

The tower was a collaboration between Studio Daniel Libeskind and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architect David Childs.


Aid for the World

Mayor Giuliani mandated that all members of protective services receive at least eight hours of counseling, so the Keyes’ responded by recruiting professional counselors and therapists for their new Restoration Counseling Center, located 2 blocks from Ground Zero.

John Koten

The company is participating in the revival of lower Manhattan from its headquarters one block north of Ground Zero in New York’s first LEED-certified, “green” office building.

Liberty Street Protest

In the summer of 2004 artist/photographer Glen E. Friedman had gained permission from his long-time friend Russell Simmons to make a huge political statement in the windows of his property across the street from the World Trade Center site in New York City, just before for the Republican National Convention.


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Aaron Twerski

He has been appointed by Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein as one of two Special Masters to handle cases filed by workers who suffered respiratory illnesses as a result of cleaning up the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Dyllan McGee

From 2003 to 2005 Dyllan served as the Director of Content and Operations for the International Freedom Center on Ground Zero in New York, a cultural institution that was proposed as part of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.

International Freedom Center

"We do not believe there is a viable alternative place for the I.F.C. at the World Trade Center site," said the statement from the center's executives, Tom Bernstein, Peter Kunhardt and Richard Tofel.