New York Subway Station Reopens 17 Years After It Was Destroyed During 9/11 Attacks

Seventeen years after it was destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, New York City's Cortlandt Street subway station has at long last reopened. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) opened the new WTC Cortlandt station on Saturday - restoring the stop to Lower Manhattan. The new station's name references its location at the centre of the World Trade Centre and Cortlandt Street, which existed above the station location when the subway line originally opened in July 1918. 1 train to the Cortlandt Street subway station in lower Manhattan, almost 17 years after it was badly damaged in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Construction on the new station began in 2015 after the MTA was given control of the site, the transit authority said

WTC Cortlandt opened on Saturday. The new stop includes an air-tempered ventilation system, elevator access from the street and a white marble mosaic by artist Ann Hamilton featuring text from the Declaration of Independence and the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The WTC–Cortlandt subway station in lower Manhattan opens for the first time since being destroyed in the September 11 attacks in 2001.