3. The Steel for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub Was Transported Over the Manhattan Bridge in the Middle of the Night

Materials for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub were transported by truck over the Manhattan Bridge in the middle of the night. In addition, once the World Trade Center Memorial was in place, cranes could no longer get the necessary “materials and equipment to the hub mezzanine below, so the authority bought 10 flatcars for $3 million and used PATH as a freight railroad,” reported the New York Times. If this sounds odd, the PATH train actually goes through the slurry wall into the World Trade Center bathtub. Many New Yorkers and commuters will remember that for quite a long period after 9/11, the slurry wall was visible to those going in and out of the city on the PATH train.