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Monday's commuters will once again make the No. 1 train to Cortlandt Street subway station in lower Manhattan, nearly 17 years after being severely damaged in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority opened the renovated train station on Saturday, unveiling a new name, WTC Cortlandt.
MTA President Joe Lhota said the opening of the station was "symbolic of the determination of New Yorkers to restore and substantially improve the entire World Trade Center site."
The station on Cortlandt Street was damaged when the World Trade Center towers crashed into the sidewalk in 2001, causing the collapse of the tunnels and the breakdown of the subway's communication equipment.
The following year, the MTA operated the subway throughout the region. But 1 train has bypassed the station while the New York and New Jersey port authorities have built the World Trade Center's transport hub, adjacent to the train station.
The Port Authority remained responsible for the renovations of the subway station until 2015, when the MTA resumed the construction project.
The original station was built a century ago. Its off-white tiled walls and red columns have been replaced by a modern white-marble-walled station adorned with texts from the Declaration of Independence and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. of 1948.
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