World Trade Center site: Difference between revisions

The '''World Trade Center site''', often referred to as "'''[[Ground zero#World Trade Center|Ground Zero]]'''""" or "'''the Pile'''" immediately after the [[September 11 attacks]], is a 14.6-acre (5.9&nbsp;ha) area in [[Lower Manhattan]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dunlap |first1=David W. |title=In a Space This Sacred, Every Square Foot Counts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/nyregion/blocks-in-a-space-this-sacred-every-square-foot-counts.html|access-date=July 8, 2015 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 29, 2004 |ref=blocks-4-29-2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Barry |first=Dan |title=A Nation Challenged – The Site: 'At the Scene of Random Devastation, a Most Orderly Mission' |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 24, 2001 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DEFDD143AF937A1575AC0A9679C8B63 | access-date=July 31, 2010}}</ref> The site is bounded by [[Vesey Street (Manhattan)|Vesey Street]] to the north, the [[West Side Highway]] to the west, [[Liberty Street (Manhattan)|Liberty Street]] to the south, and [[Church Street (Manhattan)|Church Street]] to the east. The [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]] (PANYNJ) owns the site's land (except for [[7 World Trade Center]]). The original [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] complex stood on the site until it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.