That a company moved from one place to another is not news, it happens all the time.
But for a company partially owned by the state of Israel to move out of the WTC one week before the attacks and forfeit $50,000.00 in broken lease fees is news.
Israeli Company Mum About
Perfect Timing Of WTC Pullout
- WHILE an Israeli real estate magnate from Australia insured his 99-year lease on the retail space of the World Trade Center against terrorism, one of Israel's biggest companies pulled out of the north tower just days before Sept. 11.
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- AFP has learned from a reliable source in the shipping industry that Zim American Israeli Shipping Co., Inc. broke the lease when it vacated the rented offices on the 16th and 17th floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center shortly before the Sept. 11 disaster.
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- According to the source, Zim's WTC office space had been leased until the end of the year and the company lost $50,000 when it suddenly pulled out in the beginning of September.
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- The parent company, Zim Israel Navigation Co., is nearly half-owned by the state of Israel, the other half held by Israel Corp. Zim is one of the world's largest container shipping companies, operating an international network of shipping lines.
WTC 7 impersonates a perfect textbook controlled demolition without having been struck by a plane.
straight f-ing down caused by fires and if you believe that you're an f-ing idiot
Below are some of the items and facilities destroyed or damaged in the collapse of WTC 7:
- 21 libraries inside the World Trade Center, including that of the Journal of Commerce.
- Records belonging to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Reuters news agency and the Los Angeles Times reported that files in 3,000 to 4,000 active cases were lost, including ones relating to the agency's investigation into investment banks' divvying up of hot shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom of the 1990s.
- Files belonging to the Central Intelligence Agency, which had a secret office on the 25th floor of 7 World Trade Center, and the U.S. Secret Service, which based more than 200 agents at its offices in the same building. The 7 World Trade Center building was north of the main towers and was not directly hit in the attack but collapsed later in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. In the days after the attacks, CIA and Secret Service staff sifted through debris that had been carted to a Staten Island landfill looking for lost documents, hard drives with classified information and intelligence reports.
- Active case files of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which investigates discrimination cases. The office said it lost documents in about 45 active case files that could not be easily retrieved, including ones relating to a sexual harassment case against Morgan Stanley, whose offices were also destroyed in the attacks. The records loss delayed some court cases.
- U.S. trade documents dating back to the 1840s that were housed in the library of the U.S. Customs Service in 6 World Trade Center.
- The offices of the emergency operations command centre for the City of New York. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani and city officials were criticized for their decision to house the centre at 7 World Trade Center even though at the time it was opened in 1999, the WTC site had already once been targeted, in the 1993 bombing that killed six people.
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- Numerous art works in the private collections of businesses and agencies that had offices in the WTC as well as several pieces of public art commissioned by the Port Authority over the years and displayed throughout the complex. Works lost include WTC Stabile, a red steel sculpture by the late U.S. artist Alexander Calder also known as the Bent Propeller that stood in the WTC courtyard; a large tapestry by Spanish artist Joan Miro that hung in the lobby of 2 World Trade Center; paintings by Pablo Picasso, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein; works by Paul Klee and Le Corbusier in the Marriott Hotel's collection; and Auguste Rodin drawings and sculptures owned by the Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage firm, which lost 650 employees in the disaster and whose late founder was a renowned Rodin collector. Parts of the Calder sculpture were recovered but not enough to fully restore the work. A cast of Rodin's The Thinker reportedly resurfaced shortly after Sept. 11 but disappeared again; some believe it was stolen from Ground Zero. The value of art lost was estimated at $100 million from private collections and $10 million in public art.
- Studios, equipment and art works in the spaces occupied by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 5 World Trade Center.
- The offices and archives of Helen Keller International, the agency founded by deaf and blind activist Helen Keller. Among the documents lost were letters written by Keller. Only a bust of Keller and one book were recovered.
- Thousands of negatives of photos taken by John F. Kennedy's personal photographer, Jacques Lowe, which had been stored in a safe deposit vault at 5 World Trade Center.
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- The archives and library of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the region's airports, bridges and the World Trade Center. A spokesman for the organization said it only had a "general idea" of what documents were destroyed but one document that is known to have been lost is the 1921 agreement that created the Port Authority.
- Artifacts from the 19th-century Lower Manhattan neighbourhood of Five Points. About 900,000 objects excavated from an archeological site uncovered in 1991 a few blocks east of the WTC were stored in a room at the 6 World Trade Center building that was destroyed by the collapse of the north tower. Artifacts from an 18th-century burial ground for free and enslaved Africans that were stored in an adjacent room were saved from among the debris.
- Case files from the office of the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York.
- Photographs from the Broadway Theatre Archives.
- Family records and heirlooms stored in safety deposit boxes and vaults of World Trade Center banks, including a collection of 25 antique hand-woven rugs valued at more tha $500,000 US that had been passed down through generations of Muslim families from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.
- Materials in the Pentagon library, which housed 500,000 books, documents and historical materials and was hit by the nose of the plane that crashed into the building, were damaged but the bulk of them was restored.
- Twenty-four works in the art collections of the army, navy, air force and marine corps at the Pentagon.
The Sphere for Plaza Fountain, a large rotating metal sculpture by German artist Fritz Koenig that was one of the most recognizable works of public art at the World Trade Center, was the only public art work there to survive. The damaged piece was moved to Battery Park and displayed in its dented state as part of a memorial to the victims of the attacks.
