Trains are once again running through a New York City subway station that was buried when the Twin Towers fell 17 years ago, days before this year's anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
People cheered, clapped and held their phones up to record the event as a train rolled to a stop, video footage from the subway station showed.
The Cortlandt stop reopened on Saturday on the Number One line in what The New York Times described as "the last major piece in the city's quest to rebuild what was lost."
MTA Chairman Joe Lhota receives the ceremonial ribbon-cutting scissors at the Cortlandt Street-World Trade Center subway reopening, Sept. 8, 2018. /VCG Photo
The station was under the World Trade Center, whose twin towers collapsed in flames after being struck by airliners commandeered by Al-Qaeda militants.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority began rebuilding the stop in 2015, the Times reported.
WTC Cortlandt subway station in New York opens for business on Sept. 8, 2018. /VCG Photo
The 9/11 attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives in the United States and led to the launch of deadly, long-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – countries that remain plagued by violence and instability to this day.
(Cover: Artwork by Ann Hamilton entitled CHORUS decorates the walls of the newly opened Cortlandt Street-World Trade Center subway station. /VCG Photo)