Photo credit: Museum staff
Accession Number: C.2015.191.23
Dimensions: 11 in X 8.5 in
Dimensions (Metric): 27.94 cm X 21.59 cm
Credit Line: Gift of Daniel Sassa in remembrance of the FDNY's 343
Description
January 1976, Volume 3, No. 1 issue of 110 News, a newsletter published for the World Trade Center community by the Port Authority. Photographs on the front depict the rendering of the pedestrian bridge connecting the WTC and One Bankers Trust Plaza (Deutsche Bank) across Liberty zStreet on the south side of the complex.
Featured topics covered in this issue include:
-Projected construction of the bridge over Liberty Street connecting the WTC Plaza and the One Bankers Trust Plaza
-World Health Medical and Dental Center opening on the third floor of 5 WTC to service WTC tenants
-New stores opening in the Concourse Mall
-New tenant directories
-Sights to see at the South Street Seaport
-World Trade Institute's Evening School of World Trade launching early 1976
-Evening entertainment in lower Manhattan
-Solar International headquarters in the WTC
-American District Telegraph Company (ADT) moving to North Tower
Historical Notes
As of 2001, the World Trade Center was home to more than 430 businesses from 28 different countries. Approximately 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center with tens of thousands more passing through the complex each day. The World Trade Center complex contained 12 million square feet of office space and 22 different food and drink vendors.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) was the interstate agency that created and managed the World Trade Center until July 24, 2001. The Port Authority maintained offices in both the North and South Towers throughout the life of the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center's 110 News was a monthly newsletter published for the World Trade Center community by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.