Southwest corner of 6 WTC following September 11, 2001.
NOAA aerial image following the September 11, 2001 attacks. North is approximately upper right on the image.
6 WTC, upper left corner.
Six World Trade Center was the U.S. Customs House: a 537,693-square-foot (49,953-m²), 8-story building in Lower Manhattan, New York City, part of the World Trade Center. Construction finished in 1975. It was also the building in the World Trade Center that had the least number of floors. From the Austin J. Tobin Plaza level, on which the main structure was built, it had a height of 92 ft (28 m) but was 105 ft (32 m) above actual ground level. It was destroyed on September 11, 2001, from the collapse of 1 World Trade Center.
Debris from the North Tower fell on and around 6 WTC, digging a deep crater into the building's basement, setting it alight. The building's ruins were demolished to make way for reconstruction. AMEC Construction handled the demolition,[1] in which the building was weakened and then pulled down with cables. The new One World Trade Center will stand at the site where 6 World Trade Center once stood. There is no clearly defined 6 World Trade Center in the new World Trade Center master plan, although a proposed performing arts center designed by Frank Gehry could be named 6 World Trade Center in the future.[2]
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6 WTC, the building with the large, black crater on the northwest corner of the photo.
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Coordinates: 40°42′46″N 74°00′48″W / 40.7129°N 74.0132°W / 40.7129; -74.0132
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