The World Trade Center resurrected from the ashes of the 9/11 terrorist attack reopened for business 13 years later, Monday.
''The New York City skyline is whole again,'' said Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the building and the 16-acre World Trade Center site, reports the Boston Globe citing the Associated Press.
The 104-storey, $3.9 billion building that dominates the Manhattan skyline is America's tallest building, USA Today reports.
The 1,776-foot One World Trade Center, which has become the symbol of American resilience is bigger and better than ever, the Associated Press reports. As many as 175 employees of Conde Nast, the magazine publishing giant, shifted to their new office at the building. A total of 3,400 staffers of the publishing company will be stationed there.
"This is a terrific day for Lower Manhattan, a wonderful day for New York City, and a great day for Condé Nast," the company's chief executive Chuck Townsend said, New York Daily News reports.
The official opening of the skyscraper might help in providing some normalcy to the site, where the twin towers fell after an attack orchestrated by Osama Bin laden was executed.
However, according to the New York Post, the reopening ceremony was not attended by any elected officials or those power brokers who took part in the skyscraper's tormented creation, architects, marquee-name Condé Nast editors or Newhouse family members, who bravely decided to move there. It wasn't necessary. The fact that 1 WTC was reopening for business was enough to convey the victory.
