High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Survivors' Staircase is the last visible structure above ground level at the World Trade Center site. It was originally two outdoor flights of granite-clad stairs and an escalator that connected Vesey Street to the World Trade Center's Austin J. Tobin Plaza. During the September 11, 2001, attacks, the stairs served as an escape route for hundreds of evacuees from 5 World Trade Center, a 9-floor building adjacent to the 110-story towers. The preservation of the staircase became a matter of dispute since May 11, 2006, when it was listed as one of the most endangered historical places in America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The stairs occupied part of the site of a new office building which the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was contractually obligated to clear before the site was turned over to developer Larry Silverstein of Silverstein Properties, who in turn has a contractual obligation to develop the site as the 200 Greenwich Street office building, which is also referenced as "Tower 2" in the master plan.

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