World Trade Center (PATH-Station)

The World Trade Center station is an underground station of the Port Authority Trans -Hudson ( PATH) in New York City. It is located directly beneath the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, the place where the twin towers of the World Trade Center stood on the up to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.

The station was opened by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad on July 19, 1909. Because of the building of the World Trade Center complex was temporarily closed in 1966 and reopened in 1971. The current station was put into operation after its destruction in 2001, in November 2003 again.

Currently, however, is still at a transfer station, the so-called World Trade Center Transportation Hub, and built an underground passage to the neighboring complex, the World Financial Center. The system allows transfers between the PATH station and the New York City subway stations Cortlandt Street ( IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line), Cortlandt Street ( BMT Broadway Line ) and World Trade Center. From the Transportation Hub also One World Trade Center, Two World Trade Center, Three World Trade Center and Four World Trade Center will be directly accessible. The Transit Hall is the centerpiece of the new interchange. It will house 45,000 square feet of retail shops under one designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava roof.

Hudson Terminal (1909-1966)

By the year 1966, the station opened in 1909 Hudson Terminal was called. Above the underground station there were two 22-storey high-rise buildings, which were also identified by Hudson Terminal, the railway facilities were just below the southern building.

In a geography book the Hudson Terminal in 1928 was described as follows: " There is a whole city in itself, nested in the middle of the business district of New York. High above towering, deep including reaching a mountain of steel and masonry with roads that are coincident with banks, post, telegraph and Telephonämtern, fire, police, department stores, huge gas and electric plants, steam machines, amusement facilities, train stations, public houses, clubs, cafes and public ( roof ) garden, which is located high above New York. The population of this city of steel may be 10,000 souls, 10,000 a day, and only a few hundred at night. 5000 spaces at their command or, if one assumes the average of an ordinary residential building with 10 rooms, 500 houses. "

End of the 1950s, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad went bankrupt. The states of New York and New Jersey could not agree on a restructuring plan that included that the railway company, the site of the Hudson terminals of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey handed, so they tear down the building and the World Trade Center, a new contemporary could create overbuilding. Meanwhile, rental income were the renovation of the railway. As early as 1962 the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad was taken over by the Port Authority and renamed PATH, which stands for Port Authority Trans Hudson.

In 1966 started the construction of the World Trade Center complex. As a first step all the buildings of the Hudson Terminal was torn down in order to make room for the huge complex, which included the two 110 -story twin towers among others. That same year, the Hudson Terminal Station was closed.

World Trade Center Station (1971-2001)

After it was started in 1966 with the construction of the gigantic complex, the metro station of the new World Trade Center in 1971 was completed, while the two 400-meter high twin towers, the tallest skyscraper in New York City, only in the 1972 (WTC 1) and 1973 (WTC 2) were completed. The entire complex was completely finished in 1977. Owner of the World Trade Center complex, miteingerechnet the station, was the port authority of the states of New York and New Jersey. The Port Authority, which operates the PATH Transportation is also responsible for road links between New York and New Jersey as well as the airports. In the years following the opening of the WTC complex, the PATH station was very busy, especially since they had a direct access to the two twin towers and offering short connecting flights to several stations of the New York City Subway. In the entire World Trade Center complex, approximately 50,000 people worked. Many of them reached their work on the U- Bahn network or from New Jersey with the PATH line.

The terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the USA and the complete destruction of the World Trade Center complex, the PATH station was severely damaged and the adjoining the station tunnel flooded. Due to its railway operations had to be stopped.

New World Trade Center station

After the terrorist attacks in the fall of 2001, the PATH could not run to the World Trade Center, because the station was destroyed. After the cleanup at Ground Zero, which had officially ended in May 2002, the railway facilities was restored and temporarily erected by the New York Port Authority, a new input, which could begin operations on 22 November 2003. Since the reconstruction of the complex was planned, the station retained its old name.

After 2006 it was clear the final design of the new World Trade Center complex, including new facilities designed for public transport, which are called World Trade Center Transportation Hub. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The new station is above ground consist of a large glass building, which will be flooded with light. It is located between the towers 2 and 3 ( Two World Trade Center and Three World Trade Center ) of the new complex are located. However, a direct access from the Transportation Hub for One World Trade Center and Four World Trade Center is to consist. Another underground passage should lead to the adjacent World Financial Center. This is also planned as a light-filled corridor.

The entire construction of the new station is funded by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and commissioned. The Port Authority is also the owner of Ground Zero, during the complete rebuilding of the World Trade Center takes place in community work with the real estate company Silverstein Properties. The construction of the Transportation Hub began in 2008. He should be fully completed in 2015. The partial opening of a first platform in February 2014., The first steel skeleton for the underpass to the World Financial Center in July 2008 were at the location between the sites of the One World Trade Center and the World Trade Center Memorial installed.

The construction costs are current estimates amount to about 4 billion U.S. dollars.

New York City Subway

In the immediate vicinity of the PATH station includes the following subway stations of New York City Subway:

• World Trade Center
• Cortlandt Street ( closed)
• Cortlandt Street
• Fulton Street ( with a pedestrian walkway to Fulton Street)
• Park Place