Editing World Trade Center site (section)

==Before the World Trade Center==
[[File:Radio Row-Berenice Abbott.jpg|thumb|left|[[Berenice Abbott]]'s photograph showing [[Radio Row]] in 1936, with [[Cortlandt Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Cortlandt Street station]] seen in the background]]
The western portion of the World Trade Center site was originally under the Hudson River, with the shoreline in the vicinity of Greenwich Street. On this shoreline close to the intersection of Greenwich Street and the former Dey Street, Dutch explorer [[Adriaen Block]]'s ship, the [[Tyger (ship)|''Tyger'']], burned to the waterline in November 1613, stranding Block and his crew and forcing them to overwinter on the island. The remains of the ship were buried under landfill when the shoreline was extended starting in 1797, and were discovered during excavation work in 1916. The remains of another ship from the eighteenth century were found in 2010 during excavation work at the site. The ship, believed to be a Hudson River [[sloop]], was found just south of where the Twin Towers used to stand, about {{convert|20|ft}} below the surface.<ref name="2010-07-15 CNN">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/15/new.york.ground.zero.ship/index.html?_s=PM:US |title=Pieces of ship made in 1700s found at ground zero building site |publisher=[[CNN]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113070306/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-15/us/new.york.ground.zero.ship_1_ship-archaeologist-ground-zero?_s=PM%3AUS |date=January 13, 2011 |archive-date=2011-01-13 |last1=Spodak |url-status=live |first1=Cassie}}</ref>

The area that was cleared for construction of the original World Trade Center complex was previously occupied by various electronics stores in what was called [[Radio Row]]. These streets and stores were demolished in the 1960s to make way for the World Trade Center.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/020603.radiorow.html |title='Radio Row:' The neighborhood before the World Trade Center |access-date=October 1, 2006 |date=June 3, 2002 |publisher=[[NPR]] |archive-date=October 18, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018014921/http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/020603.radiorow.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>