Towers once the world's tallest: The World Trade Center, which opened in 1970, was the brain child of then-New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and his brother David. It was the target of one previous terrorist attack in 1993 Final Edition

Until 1974, the towers were the world's tallest buildings, when Sears Tower was completed. They are now fifth, after the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the Jin Mao Building in Shanghai, and the Sears Tower. -- One World Trade Center tower was 1,368 feet tall (417 metres) and Two WTC was 1,362 fee...

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Published inThe Vancouver sun (1986)
Main Author Bergman, Jonas
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver, B.C Postmedia Network Inc 11.09.2001
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NEW YORK
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Summary:Until 1974, the towers were the world's tallest buildings, when Sears Tower was completed. They are now fifth, after the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the Jin Mao Building in Shanghai, and the Sears Tower. -- One World Trade Center tower was 1,368 feet tall (417 metres) and Two WTC was 1,362 feet tall (415 metres). The two 110-story towers briefly served as the world's tallest buildings until the Sears Tower in Chicago surpassed it in 1973 at 1,407 feet (433 metres). -- Beneath the WTC complex lay an enormous underground shopping center, as well as the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority Subway trains N,R,A,C and E, the 1 and 9 trains and New Jersey PATH commuter trains, serving some 150,000 daily commuters.
ISSN:0832-1299