COMPLEX OVERVIEW

COMPLEX OVERVIEW

The World Trade Center (WTC) is owned and operated by the Port Authority (PA) of New York and New Jersey. It was developed and constructed by the PA to serve as the headquarters for international trade within the New York/New Jersey region. The WTC is located on a 16acre site in lower Manhattan. The complex consists of two 1 10-story office towers (1 and 2 WTC), a 22story luxury hotel (3 WTC), two nine-story office buildings (4 and 5 WTC), an eight-story U.S. Customs House (6 WTC), and a 47-story office building (7 WTC). All seven buildings exit onto a five-acre plaza as well as onto the surrounding city streets. The complex is bound by West Street to the west, Vesey and Barclay streets to the north, Church Street to the east, and Liberty Street to the south. The mall at the WTC, located directly below the plaza, is the largest enclosed shopping mall in lower Manhattan, as well as the main interior pedestrian circulation level for the complex.

The WTC complex contains more than 12 million square feet of rentable office space. Each of the 110 floors is approximately one acre (40,000 square feet) in size and is not obstructed by columns, to allow maximum flexibility in office layouts. Tower 1 (North Tower) is 1,368 feet tall and has a 351-foot commercial television antenna mast mounted on top. Tower 2 (South Tower) is 1,362 feet tall. 3 WTC, the Vista Hotel, rises 265 feet above street level and contains 821 guest rooms. 4 WTC, also called the Southeast Plaza Building, rises nine stories, is 119 feet tall, and has 600,000 rentable square feet. 5 WTC, the Northeast Plaza Building, is nine stories, 119 feet tall, and has 700,000 square feet available for rental. 6 WTC is the NY/NJ metro region consolidated Customs House and is eight stories, 130 feet tall, and contains 800,000 square feet of space. 7 WTC is 634 feet high and has 47 floors of office space. The complex has 256 elevators and 72 escalators.

Some 60,000 people work in the WTC complex, and another 90,000 business and leisure visitors pass through the center each day. There are more than 450 firms and organizations represented, including trade and foreign government organizations engaged in such international commerce activity as import, export, freight forwarding, custom house brokerage, international banking and finance, insurance, and transportation. The WTC also is the Manhattan headquarters for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The complex is served by several modes of mass transportation. Hie New York City Transit Authority provides direct subway service to the WTC by way of the IRT, BMT, and IND lines; bus service is available from several locations on surrounding streets. Port Authority Trans Hudson, or PATH, provides direct rail service with Hoboken, Jersey City, Harrison, and Newark, New Jersey. Ferry service also is available from Hoboken to the nearby World Financial Center.

-PORT AUTHORITY RISK MANAGEMENT STAFF

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