- The City chose to build the WTC instead of building a new tunnel and large bridge over the Hudson River.- Owners of nearby buildings disagreed, and delayed demolition by three weeks with their protests.
- Sixteen blocks were cleared to house the completed WTC.
- More than 10,000 workers involved in building the complex.
- More than 60 of them died during construction.
- The complex covered 16 acres when finished.
- In addition to the towers, five other office buildings made up the WTC complex. The WTC had 12 million square feet of space.
- The buildings had their own ZIP codes - 10047 and 10048.
- Completed, the buildings were 100 feet taller then the Empire State building.
- The towers were different heights. The South tower was 1,362 feet tall, and big brother North tower was 1,368.
- Sixty-eight miles of steel were used in the construction of the buildings.
- The concrete poured was enough to build a road from New York to Washington, DC.
- The steel inside the WTC could have made three more Brooklyn Bridges.
- There were 43,600 windows.
- The Twin Towers had more than 16 miles of staircases.
- The building had 20,000 elevator doors.
- The main elevators at 27 feet a second reached the top in less than a minute.
- There were 828 emergency exit doors.
- The WTC used more power in one day than most small American cities.
- More than 250,000 cans of paint were needed every year for upkeep of the Towers.
- By 9 a.m. each weekday morning, the buildings had an average of 35,000 employees at their desks.
- Seventeen babies were born on the site.
- More than three dozen movies have been filmed there.
- $110.3 million in gold and 120.7 million in silver is buried in the rubble.
- It is the first skyscraper in the world destroyed by terrorists.
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