One World Trade Center stands on May 27, 2014 in New York City. With months before it's sceduled to open, the owners of One World Trade are cutting office rents due to a scarcity of current renters at the iconic location built near the former location of the original World Trade Center buildings, which were destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. With only 55% of current space leased, owners and developers of the building are cutting rents 10% to $69 a square foot down from $75 a square foot.
9/11 picture: United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the World Trade Center's south tower
9/11 picture: United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the World Trade Center's south tower
9/11 picture: people on the World Trade Center's north tower hanging out of the windows
9/11 picture: firefighter Mike Kehoe walking up a stairwell in the World Trade Center north tower
9/11 picture: American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11
9/11 picture: people evacuating New York's Financial District on 9/11
9/11 picture: the twin towers burning behind the Empire State Building
9/11 picture: a victim falling from the World Trade Center's north tower
9/11 picture: the World Trade Center south tower collapsing
9/11 picture: people running from the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11
9/11 picture: firefighters battling a fire at the Pentagon
9/11 picture: people walking over a New York bridge to escape Manhattan
9/11 picture: people helping a wounded man outside of the Pentagon
9/11 picture: Marcy Borders covered in ash in New York
9/11 picture: a New York City street after the attacks
9/11 picture: ground zero not long after the twin towers collapsed
9/11 picture: firefighters helping an injured colleague
9/11 picture: the New York City skyline after the attacks
9/11 picture: smoke rising from debris after a plane crash in Pennsylvania
9/11 picture: rescue workers pulling out a rescue worker at ground zero
9/11 picture: a photo of a piece of an airplane used as evidence in a terrorist trial
9/11 picture: President Bush comforts a firefighter
9/11 picture: a damaged apartment in lower Manhattan
9/11 picture: people look at photos of missing police and firefighters
9/11 picture: Firefighters spray water of the still burning rubble at ground zero
The World Trade Center reconstruction and memorial site. The plan for the site, by architect Daniel Libeskind, will be a spiral of 4 new towers around an eight acre 9/11 Memorial Park consisting of 2 pools set in the footprints of where the original Twin Towers used to stand. Each pool then descends into a central void. The names of the 2,983 victims who died on 9/11 are inscribed in the parapets surrounding the pools. The 9/11 Memorial opened on the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attack on New York. Construction continues on the new buildings surrounding the memorial.
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Remembrance and Rebuilding

Seen in May 2014, the new One World Trade Center rises above New York City, just steps from the location of the former World Trade Center buildings. Those iconic landmarks were destroyed by terrorists on September 11, 2001, when nearly 3,000 people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania lost their lives.National Geographic photo editors have chosen 27 iconic images that tell stories from one of the country's darkest days.

"I think many of the images from 9/11 still convey the rawness and brutality of the attack," said Clifford Chanin, an executive at New York City's National September 11 Memorial and Museum and editor of Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17, a book of photographs of 9/11 artifacts. "It seems to me that they still have the capacity to shock."

Warning: This gallery contains graphic content.—Brian Handwerk

Photograph by Spencer Platt, Getty Images

Remembering 9/11 With Indelible Pictures

Ten years after 9/11, see iconic images of the tragedy as chosen by National Geographic photo editors. Warning: graphic content.

September 09, 2011

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