Prior to their destruction in 2001, the World Trade Center in New York was a wonder of architecture.

It was a collection of seven different buildings which served as a hub of commerce in New York's financial district.

The planning for this complex was decades in the making and during its

brief history it was witnessed to several significant events.

Learn more about the history of New York's World Trade Center on this episode of

Everything Everywhere Daily.

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There are a lot of television shows and podcasts about the events of September 11th 2001 and the destruction of the World Trade Center.

That's an enormous topic that would take a lot of time to dissect,

and besides, there are plenty of other outlets that will be focusing on that.

Instead, I want to put my own spin on things by focusing on what happened beforehand, how these buildings

came to be and what made them special.

If you go back far enough to before the Dutch first arrived on the island of Manhattan, the

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