Photos show how Manhattan's skyline has changed since the 9/11 attacks

Manhattan's skyline as seen in 2025, 24 years after the 9/11 attacks.Gary Hershorn/Getty ImagesThis year marks the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.The World Trade Center site has become a memorial to the 2,977 lives lost.Photos show how New York City rebuilt ground zero.Each September, two large beams of light reach into the night sky above Manhattan's Financial District in powerful tribute to the towers that once defined the city's skyline.Thursday, September 11, marks 24 years since terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes, crashing two into New York's Twin Towers and forever changing the city. Another plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and the fourth crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers overpowered the hijackers.In total, 2,977 victims lost their lives and, more than two decades later, their loved ones continue to gather to recite their names at the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center complex in New York.Photos show how the attacks changed Manhattan's skyline, and how the Financial District rebuilt ground zero.A photograph gives an aerial view of the Twin Towers on a peaceful June day in 1999.The Twin Towers in New York City are pictured in June 1999.Associated PressBut that skyline was horrifically altered a little more than two years later.September 11, 2001.Associated PressThe top photo was taken on August 30, 2001, while the bottom photo was taken 16 days after the attacks.The lower Manhattan skyline is shown in an August 30, 2001 file photo (top), with the World Trade Center towers at center, and a in view taken from approximately the same spot on September 27, 2001, with both towers missing from the city's skyline following the September 11 attacks.ReutersIt took several months for rescuers to go through the rubble. In December 2003, a design for the new One World Trade Center was finally unveiled.An aerial view showing the footprint of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, with the Hudson River, left, on Friday Sept. 10, 2004Associated PressIt would come to include multiple new buildings such as the 1,776-foot-tall One World Trade Center and a 9/11 Memorial and Museum.Construction continues in the Financial District in 2003.Stephen Chernin/Getty ImagesA "Tribute in Lights" shone on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2006, where the World Trade Center once stood. The lights still shine in tribute each year on the anniversary.The 'Tribute in Lights' shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York, September 11, 2006, as the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center is observed.ReutersAs late as 2007, the site still looked the same, as construction was hamstrung by lawsuits, budget overruns, design changes, and a recession.This Aug. 29, 2007 file photo shows the World Trade Center site, center, surrounded by skyscrapers in New York.Associated PressSource: TimeIn 2009, the 9/11 memorial waterfalls were starting to take shape.Cranes work above the north pool of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.Associated PressOne World Trade Center, also known as the "Freedom Tower," was just starting to rise from the rubble.Cranes at the site on January 27, 2009.Associated PressIn June 2010, the skyscraper was slowly rising.In June 2010, the skyscraper was slowly rising.Associated PressBy July 2011, the memorial waterfalls were being tested, and One World Trade Center's facade was beginning to reflect the sky.The waterfalls are tested as work continues on the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site, Friday, July 15, 2011 in New York.Associated PressHere's the Manhattan skyline in August 2011. You can see the unfinished tower beginning to peek over the other skyscrapers.One World Trade Center towers over the lower Manhattan skyline, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 in New York. The skyscraper is now 76 floors and will reach 104 floors.Associated PressThe memorial waterfalls officially opened in September 2011, and the museum, seen on the right, opened in May 2014.The September 11 Museum entrance pavilion, right, sits next to one of the September 11 Memorial pools, at the World Trade Center Monday, April 14, 2014 in New York. The memorial opened to the public in September, 2011 and the museum is scheduled to open in May, 2014.Associated PressBy November 2014, One World Trade Center was complete, as was 4 World Trade Center (left) and 7 World Trade Center (right). But 3 World Trade Center still wasn't finished.A construction crane works on top of the rising steel frame of Three World Trade Center, center, November 20, 2014 in New York. The neighboring skyscrapers are Four World Trade Center, left, One World Trade Center, second from right, and 7 World Trade Center, right.Associated PressThe WTC Transportation Hub, on which the soaring white Oculus was built, was also under construction in late 2014.The Fulton Street Transit Center, left, and One World Trade Center as seen from Church Street, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, in New York.Associated PressThe hub officially opened in June 2016, while 3 World Trade Center was still under construction.Associated PressThe $50 million Liberty Park also opened in June 2016. From there, visitors can get an overhead view of the ground zero memorial.The one-acre, elevated Liberty Park opened in 2016. Built on top of a security center, it overlooks the memorial to those who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.Associated PressThis June 2018 photo shows 3 World Trade Center, One World Trade Center, 4 World Trade Center, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and Liberty Park, all finally complete.In this June 8, 2018 photo, 3 World Trade Center, second from right, joins its neighbors One World Trade Center, left, and 4 World Trade Center, right, next to the September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. The center's latest skyscraper opens Monday.Associated PressWith construction officially complete, the Manhattan skyline is now forever changed.Associated PressNow the tallest building in the US, the gleaming One World Trade Center, pictured in August 2025, towers over the Financial District.The Manhattan skyline seen from New Jersey in August 2025.Gary Hershorn/Getty ImagesThis year, the Tribute in Light is again visible on Manhattan's skyline as New York marks the 24th anniversary of the attacks.This year's Tribute in Light is seen over the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center.Gary Hershorn/Getty ImagesDaniel Brown contributed to an earlier version of this article.Read the original article on Business Insider

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