Lower Manhattan. The wide thoroughfare running from center top to bottom right is West Street. To its left is the southern half of the Battery Park City neighborhood. Owing to the smoke, dust, and lack of essential services, most area residents were forced to leave the area after the attack.

On September 11, airplane parts punctured several buildings in the Gateway Plaza section of the neighborhood at top left. Gateway Plaza was designated part of the World Trade Center crime scene.

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