What daily life looked like inside the World Trade Center before 9/11

NATIONWhat daily life looked like inside the World Trade Center before 9/11Updated Sept. 11, 2026, 7:49 a.m. ETBefore Sept. 11, 2001, the World Trade Center was more than an office complex. The 16-acre Lower Manhattan site was a symbol of global commerce and a fixture of daily life for millions of workers, visitors and residents.Above, the World Trade Center twin towers as seen on Dec. 5, 2000 from a nearby skywalk.Mel Evans / The RecordPeople walk through the Winter Garden Atrium at the World Trade Center complex in New York on Aug. 8, 1994.Walter Leporati, Getty ImagesThe trading floor of American stock brokerage firm Dean Witter at 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower), New York City in February 1992.Michael Brennan, Getty ImagesPatrons relax in front of the windows at The Greatest Bar on Earth at Windows on the World, inside the World Trade Center, on October 9, 2000.Ricky Flores/The Journal NewsThe interior of a World Trade Center Twin Tower in 1995James Leynse, Corbis Via Getty ImagesPeople stand inside one of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, looking over New York City in 1995.James Leynse, Corbis Via Getty ImagesInterior arched windows inside the World Trade Center, New York, 1976.Universal History…

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