An aerial shot of Lower Manhattan shows the Twin Towers finally completed in 1975 after years of construction. In the foreground, a landfill is worked on to create what would eventually become ...

Lower Manhattan and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, photographed from Brooklyn, 1983. Alfred Eisenstaedt—TIme & Life Pictures/Getty Images. More Must-Reads from TIME.

Despite the gleaming new Freedom Tower, Americans will never forget the Manhattan skyline before 9/11. ... 2001, the Lower Manhattan skyline was defined by the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.

Camilo José Vergara View of a passing banana boat and the Twin Towers from Red Hook, Brooklyn, 1978. Camilo José Vergara View from Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1978.

In the 1980s and ’90s, after dominating Lower Manhattan for two decades, the Twin Towers were joined by Battery Park City, erected on landfill extracted from the World Trade Center site.

The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were struck by two hijacked planes on September 11, 2001, leading to their collapse and the deaths of thousands of people.

But it’s a reminder that, for 28 years, the Twin Towers defined New York. ... The most poignant parts of “The Walk” are the towers. When Philippe gets to Manhattan, ...

A viral photograph claims to show a pair of New Yorkers sunbathing on what appears to be a beach in front of the former Twin Towers, also known as the World Trade Center, in 1977.

NEW YORK – If the winds are forgiving enough over Lower Manhattan – up where workers can see the whole outline of the island’s tip – a steel column will be hoisted into plac… ...

If the jury decides that the form used doesn't define the towers' destruction as one event or two, a second jury would be convened to decide whether one or two attacks brought down the trade center.

The twin beams first lit up the sky on the 6-month anniversary of the attacks and can be seen each year on Sept. 11, according to the Municipal Art Society of New York, which first produced the ...