People across this country and around the world were cheated out of the 21st-century Twin Towers most of us always wanted. Click above for a selection of comments that are a rebuke to the cynicism that tried to replace them and failed.
I was born after the 9/11 attacks, and I didn’t know what had happened until I was around 5-6. I remember for the first time watching the Disney film Oliver and Company. It started with a great establishing shot of New York. That was the first time I’d ever seen them before, all I had known about NY was the Empire State Building. I thought they were coolest things in the world, idk why. So later on I caught a movie or an episode of a TV show on cable, idk what it was but it featured the Twin Towers. I hadn’t seen them in a live action film before and it blew my mind, I fell in love with them. Anyway, later I told my mother about how I wanted to go to NY and see them, which is when I learned about 9/11. I wanted to see them all my life.
James Teller
*12/1/2017Metro New Yorkers
Karel Kouda
11/17/2017All Other Americans
James Mazzie
*11/15/2017All Other Americans
The only true way would be to build similar Twin Towers. As always, prayers to the victims and families!
Filipp Kurkov
*11/9/2017Architects and Builders
With all due respect to the new complex of the World Trade Center, in the composition of its buildings there is not such a significant sharpness of the silhouette as it was in the original solution. Powerful character, individuality … this is of course either twins, or a stronger solution than the current one.
Andrews Piloto
11/7/2017All Other Americans
Our beloved twin towers were the most iconic of New York City. By leaving them in the past, you are knowingly allowing our enemies to claim victory. Ridding this planet Osama’s disgusting presence wasn’t enough. We want our Twin Towers back! Nothing, especially not the new, inferior to the original, “One World Trade Center” will ever be capable of replacing our glorious towers. Time will never heal those wounds. Sixteen years is far too long of a wait! Only the rebirth of our beloved towers will heal those soars. Hear our demands, and do as we the people desire! Give us back our towers and reintroduce the people of New York City with the greatest sense of pride, honor, and dignity that only their beloved twin towers were capable of giving.
I am a portuguese guy and i want the beutifull wtc exactly as it was,because the terrorists will never win
Eduardo Gonzalez
*10/30/2017Citizens of Other Nations
Andrew Pike
*10/25/2017Citizens of Other Nations
The twin towers need to be rebuilt, I’m not a us citizen but I feel proud to sign this petition to get the towers rebuilt. Make new york complete again.
Adrian Martir
10/20/2017All Other Americans
I never got to go inside the twin towers and will if they get rebuilt just have to knock down that dumb one world trade center
Owen De la Cruz
*9/12/2017Lwr. Manhattan Residents & Workers
The twin towers were iconic buildings. I want to see Two World Trade Center built to twin One World Trade Center. Bring the twin towers back to Manhattan.
Kyle Spadaro
*9/11/2017NYC’s Bravest & Families
My dad helped with the recovery operations at the WTC for months. Of the 343 firefighters killed on 9/11, my dad knew about 50 of them. Make the skyline whole again! Rebuild the towers!
David Palm
9/11/2017All Other Americans
“We should have the World Trade Center bigger and better.” – Donald Trump
Irvin Ferguson
*7/2/2017All Other Americans
I feel we should have replaced both towers and NOT put up a TV broadcasting antenna that resembles a Muslim minaret on a single ugly tower. Sincerely, Irv
Ruilin Peng
6/5/2017Citizens of Other Nations
In my opinion, twin towers are essential parts of New York consist memories unreplacable by the freedom tower. Without them, New York is not New York. By the way, I really think the new world trade center is ugly.
Guillaume Laporte
6/2/2017Citizens of Other Nations
Some immigrants came in New York based on nothing but a postcard they had seen — a photo with that distinctive Manhattan skyline. To me, a French citizen, New York always has been the Twin Towers. This distinctive, tough, violent shape, was indeed how America seemed to us. Powerful. Mighty. But also beautiful.
All the movies that featured the Twins have written in my head how NYC should look like. It’s now a ghost that haunts even me, a young citizen in France… That’s how amazing the Twin Towers were.
I’ve always wanted to see them, to breathe New York’s air from the observation deck, at nearly 400 meters from the ground. But now it’s impossible, and not only for New-Yorkers, but also for any citizen in the world. The new tower, somehow, has less than the old Twins.
Sorry Freedom Tower, but it’s going to be very hard for you to replace such icons.
Nicholas Hanley
4/27/2017All Other Americans
Even though I was only two when it happened, as a freedom-loving patriotic American, I look at what happened on 9/11 as an attack on the United States by those whose goal was to destroy these symbols of our economic prosperity, crush the American spirit, and destroy our way of life. If we go ahead with the current plan and continue to build these new odd buildings over where these symbols once stood, instead of rebuilding the original structures bigger and better and stronger than ever, then the terrorists and those who sought to destroy these symbols will win, and they will have succeeded in accomplishing their primary goal, which is something as Americans we cannot accept or allow. Rebuild the original towers.
Daniel Bond
4/5/2017All Other Americans
I was born in ’95 and never got to go see them, I never even new they existed until I clicked on a 9/11 memorial video at 13 years old and was horrified! I fully expected them to be rebuilt but they where not inset an ugly giant tombstone was erected as a statement piece for the corporations rather then try to recover from what happened!
-Never Forget!
Moira Malachikhina
3/22/2017Citizens of Other Nations
Titus Hallen
*3/20/2017All Other Americans
Michail Malachikhine
*2/24/2017Citizens of Other Nations
Micah Weir
*2/1/2017All Other Americans
I was born in 1999 and do not remember them. I want our nations symbol back!
Ever since I was a little kid I dreamed of seeing the great towers but unfortunately I never got the chance. But when I saw this project I knew It had to be done and I fully support and hope that this project will be successful in the future!
Christian Carrillo
*1/3/2017All Other Americans
The twin towers were a symbol of our great nation. They need to be brought back to life.
Henry Nguyen
*12/19/2016All Other Americans
I never got to see the Twin Towers in person, though I hope that will change soon. The Freedom Tower is fine, but it should be in another city, heck, even another borough. If what it takes to rebuild the Twin Towers is razing the new World Trade Center,then I’m down with that.
Paul Hupperdine
*12/12/20169/11 Families & Close Friends
We need the Twin Towers. The new tower, One World Trade Center, just does not do it justice. I can’t even express the amount of sadness I have that those buildings aren’t there anymore, and what’s in their place is an eyesore, a modern contemporary-design skyscraper that completely ignores what made the Twin Towers unique. Nothing like them has ever existed, they were a tribute to the time period in which they were built, and a symbol of America. New York, and America itself needs the Twin Towers back.
John Cooper
11/29/2016Citizens of Other Nations
It wouldn’t of been the Freedom Tower. It would of been the Freedom TowerS. Because we want BOTH of those towers back the way they were except we’re gonna build them stronger! We want them resisting! We’re just being held back.. Who is holding us back? Politicians. Special Interest Groups. Political Correctness. Get ’em the hell outta your way. I’m British, and I say. Let’s give the Americans a chance to build it back!
Weston Curnow
*11/23/2016Architects and Builders
Francesco Mondello
11/22/2016Citizens of Other Nations
New York without the Twin Towers it’s like Rome without the Colosseum, you have to fix that vacuum. The Freedom tower is an insult, The WTC pre-911 was architecturally perfect.
Work in Chelsea. 14th st station. not seeing the twin towers makes me sad every day. disgusting we havent rebuilt them. the freedom tower looks like garbage.
Waylon Allsop
11/6/2016All Other Americans
I’m among the many people who never got to visit the original World Trade Center prior to 9/11. Looking back at video footage of that tragic day is positively heartbreaking, and I’d give anything to see those tall towers return anywhere in the world, let alone to the Manhattan skyline. The new One World Trade Center is nice and all, but it’s just not the same.
Cameron Ernst
11/3/2016Architects and Builders
Eleonora Murgia
*11/2/2016Citizens of Other Nations
Cole ****
10/31/2016All Other Americans
I’m not a big person in politics, I’m not a big person in government, in fact I’m not even old enough to vote. I just believe that the towers represented America’s freedom it represented America. When the terrorists took that away from us they robbed us of our Liberty, they robbed us of what stood for us. If there was a way to bring them back, for my children to see, my grandchildren to see, that would be amazing… Bring back the Twin Towers!
Kacper Sadkowski
*10/15/2016All Other Americans
I personally was born after 9/11, and I never even got to see them, and that breaks my heart. We need to rebuild them taller than One WTC including it’s spire. Seeing these buildings again would make alot of people emotional, including me. So let’s rebuild these Towers! It’s never too late to rebuild them after all…
TTA Suporter
*10/14/2016All Other Americans
That Freedom Tower in New York City doesn’t remind me of 9/11 at all. I think the Twin Towers would be a better reminder of that day and would be more respectful to the 9/11 victims and families than the Freedom Tower is or ever will be.
Zack Harris
*10/9/2016All Other Americans
The World Trade Center was a complex that symbolized NYC & symbolized our country and ever since the tragic events of 9/11/01 our voices and opinions haven’t been heard and that goes for the victims who survived and the families that lost their loved ones on 9/11. I ask that we as a community and those who own the WTC complex listen to us and rebuild the Twin Towers (the original World Trade Center complex completely) & on a personal note I would love to see the Twin Towers come back because those towers and the complex was such a unique place to be at and it was a unique place that took the hearts of millions of people and like I said it defined the NYC skyline and NYC.
Macklen Linke
*10/4/2016Citizens of Other Nations
Vadim Konevsky
*9/19/2016Citizens of Other Nations
Twin Towers were simple. but very business-style and great. I wish they were rebuilded. If they will it will be perfect. They will be like Rished From Ashes!
Never Forget. 15 years pass. We stilll remember and waiting towers to comeback!
vicente vidal
9/18/2016All Other Americans
I admire your dedication to rebuilding those beautiful towers
It’s time that, like the Phoenix, the Twin Towers arise from the ashes to retake their former glory in New York.
Anthony Camacho
8/26/2016All Other Americans
I have sometimes wondered why the Twin Towers were not rebuilt instead of that pretty but not-good-enough thing they just threw down, and leaving those two giant fountain-holes. After visiting this website, I now realize it was worse than I thought. The Twin Towers need to return. They were stolen from us and any red-blooded American or New Yorker should be very angry that they haven’t been rebuilt — good on Donald Trump for throwing his weight behind Twin Towers II. As a Millennial, my only memory of the WTC is of the smoking doomed skyscrapers. 9/11 defined the Twins for my generation. That’s not right. The WTC is just a tragedy memorial now. As long as that’s the case, Al Qaeda’s won. RAZE ONE, PUT UP TWO!!
Mary Hernandez
8/26/2016Metro New Yorkers
Samuel Mills
8/11/2016Citizens of Other Nations
Lara Orfei Nones
*8/7/2016Citizens of Other Nations
I’m signing in the hope WTC’s original buildings will replace the current ones, but safer and modern inside and the wonderful fountain’ sphere restored. I’m imagining an underground street below the site too. However i lost any hope to see the towers in their place once again but i trust you.
Walter Orfei Nones Malachikhine Alessandro
8/7/2016Citizens of Other Nations
I was born on 1997 and i never had a chance to visit the former site. I’m signing in the hope this petition will succeed and the site, especially WTC 1 and 2, restored to the original (or almost) design, externally at least.
Louis Taylor
7/15/2016Lwr. Manhattan Residents & Workers
Norman Mailer wrote, I paraphrase here: “…there was nothing like the Manhattan skyline…with its two bucked teeth jutting out so distinctively.”
It seemed natural that the powers that be would rebuild our Twin Towers…and not erect a sterile, generic monolith sans “character”. We have been let down.
I was born after the 9/11 attacks, and I didn’t know what had happened until I was around 5-6. I remember for the first time watching the Disney film Oliver and Company. It started with a great establishing shot of New York. That was the first time I’d ever seen them before, all I had known about NY was the Empire State Building. I thought they were coolest things in the world, idk why. So later on I caught a movie or an episode of a TV show on cable, idk what it was but it featured the Twin Towers. I hadn’t seen them in a live action film before and it blew my mind, I fell in love with them. Anyway, later I told my mother about how I wanted to go to NY and see them, which is when I learned about 9/11. I wanted to see them all my life.
The only true way would be to build similar Twin Towers. As always, prayers to the victims and families!
With all due respect to the new complex of the World Trade Center, in the composition of its buildings there is not such a significant sharpness of the silhouette as it was in the original solution. Powerful character, individuality … this is of course either twins, or a stronger solution than the current one.
Our beloved twin towers were the most iconic of New York City. By leaving them in the past, you are knowingly allowing our enemies to claim victory. Ridding this planet Osama’s disgusting presence wasn’t enough. We want our Twin Towers back! Nothing, especially not the new, inferior to the original, “One World Trade Center” will ever be capable of replacing our glorious towers. Time will never heal those wounds. Sixteen years is far too long of a wait! Only the rebirth of our beloved towers will heal those soars. Hear our demands, and do as we the people desire! Give us back our towers and reintroduce the people of New York City with the greatest sense of pride, honor, and dignity that only their beloved twin towers were capable of giving.
I am a portuguese guy and i want the beutifull wtc exactly as it was,because the terrorists will never win
The twin towers need to be rebuilt, I’m not a us citizen but I feel proud to sign this petition to get the towers rebuilt. Make new york complete again.
I never got to go inside the twin towers and will if they get rebuilt just have to knock down that dumb one world trade center
The twin towers were iconic buildings. I want to see Two World Trade Center built to twin One World Trade Center. Bring the twin towers back to Manhattan.
My dad helped with the recovery operations at the WTC for months. Of the 343 firefighters killed on 9/11, my dad knew about 50 of them. Make the skyline whole again! Rebuild the towers!
“We should have the World Trade Center bigger and better.” – Donald Trump
I feel we should have replaced both towers and NOT put up a TV broadcasting antenna that resembles a Muslim minaret on a single ugly tower. Sincerely, Irv
In my opinion, twin towers are essential parts of New York consist memories unreplacable by the freedom tower. Without them, New York is not New York. By the way, I really think the new world trade center is ugly.
Some immigrants came in New York based on nothing but a postcard they had seen — a photo with that distinctive Manhattan skyline. To me, a French citizen, New York always has been the Twin Towers. This distinctive, tough, violent shape, was indeed how America seemed to us. Powerful. Mighty. But also beautiful.
All the movies that featured the Twins have written in my head how NYC should look like. It’s now a ghost that haunts even me, a young citizen in France… That’s how amazing the Twin Towers were.
I’ve always wanted to see them, to breathe New York’s air from the observation deck, at nearly 400 meters from the ground. But now it’s impossible, and not only for New-Yorkers, but also for any citizen in the world. The new tower, somehow, has less than the old Twins.
Sorry Freedom Tower, but it’s going to be very hard for you to replace such icons.
Even though I was only two when it happened, as a freedom-loving patriotic American, I look at what happened on 9/11 as an attack on the United States by those whose goal was to destroy these symbols of our economic prosperity, crush the American spirit, and destroy our way of life. If we go ahead with the current plan and continue to build these new odd buildings over where these symbols once stood, instead of rebuilding the original structures bigger and better and stronger than ever, then the terrorists and those who sought to destroy these symbols will win, and they will have succeeded in accomplishing their primary goal, which is something as Americans we cannot accept or allow. Rebuild the original towers.
I was born in ’95 and never got to go see them, I never even new they existed until I clicked on a 9/11 memorial video at 13 years old and was horrified! I fully expected them to be rebuilt but they where not inset an ugly giant tombstone was erected as a statement piece for the corporations rather then try to recover from what happened!
-Never Forget!
I was born in 1999 and do not remember them. I want our nations symbol back!