Subway Station Crushed By Twin Towers To Reopen, Report Says

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY — The Cortlandt Street 1 station will reopen in October, 17 years after it was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the New York Daily News reports.

The local station was crushed by the collapsing Twin Towers in 2001, and has remained closed ever since. The long-delayed project will finally be completed later this year, according to the Daily News.

The subway station's price tag increased from an estimate of $101 million several years ago to a final cost of $158 million today, the Daily News reported.

That cost includes a $1 million public art project from the American artist Ann Hamilton, who is planning to print interweaving texts along the station's walls featuring writings from documents like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, she said in 2015.

The Cortlandt Street station serving the R line reopened in 2011.

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