Fast Facts About the WTC

• One World Trade Center featured Windows on the World, an elegant restaurant with a magnificent view of New York City. Two World Trade Center featured two observation decks, both more than 1,300 feet above the city.
   

•  Each tower had 104 passenger elevators, 21,800 windows, and roughly an acre of rentable space on each floor.
   

• From the observation deck on Two World Trade Center it was possible to see 45 miles in every direction.
   

•  Each tower swayed approximately three feet from true center in strong wind storms.
   

• If all the glass used in the construction of both towers were melted into a ribbon of glass, 20 inches wide, it would run 65 miles long.
   

• The twin towers were often called "Lego-blocks" by critics.
   

• On Friday, February 26, 1993, at 12:18 p.m., a bomb exploded in the underground garage of One World Trade Center, creating a 22-foot-wide, five-story-deep crater. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. The towers were cleaned, repaired, and reopened in less than one month.