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| image   = World Trade Center, New York City - aerial view (March 2001).jpg
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| text    = The [[construction]] of the first [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] was conceived as an [[urban renewal]] project, spearheaded by [[David Rockefeller]], to help revitalize [[Lower Manhattan]]. The project was developed by the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]], which hired architect [[Minoru Yamasaki]] who came up with the specific idea for twin towers.  After extensive negotiations, the [[New Jersey]] and [[New York (state)|New York]] state governments, which oversee the Port Authority, agreed to support the World Trade Center project at the [[Radio Row, Manhattan|Radio Row]] site on the [[Lower West Side, Manhattan|Lower West Side]] of [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. To make the agreement acceptable to New Jersey, the Port Authority agreed to take over the bankrupt Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, which brought commuters from New Jersey to the Lower Manhattan site and, upon the Port Authority's takeover of the railroad, was renamed [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson]] (now known as PATH).
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