NYC subway station damaged in 9/11 reopens 17 years later

Source: The Hill | September 8, 2018 | John Bowden

A New York City subway station that had remained closed since it was damaged in the 9/11 attacks was reopened on Saturday following 17 years of disuse.

The New York Times reported that transit officials declared the Cortlandt Street subway stop on New York City’s No. 1 line reopened on Saturday amid a small gathering of riders and Manhattan Transit Authority (MTA) officials.

One rider told the Times that reopening the station, which was closed due to a collapsed tunnel caused by falling rubble from the twin towers above, is important to show the city’s resilience in the face of hardship.

“Even though we fell, we were able to get back up,” Andre Collazo, a 64-year-old graphics technician from the Bronx told the Times. “It’s important in the sense that we’re strong, we’re resilient.”

Construction of the new station began in 2015 after the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey handed over control of the site to the MTA after years of the site sitting in ruins.

The area above the station had to be completely cleared before construction could begin, Mitchell Moss at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University told the Times. The World Trade Center’s replacement, the One World Trade Center, opened in November of 2015 following several years of construction.

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