She was staying at a hotel several blocks away when the twin towers were destroyed.

在双子楼被炸毁的那一刻，桑德拉·布洛克就在与此相隔仅几个街区的酒店里。

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The Huffington Post reported tourism is up in downtown New York City where the Twin Towers stood, with a 10 percent increase in hotel and retail services in the area since 2001.

BBC: In brief: 11 September one decade later

The urban landscape is, of course, much changed from the era the hotel so tenderly evokes, and ever transformed by the jolting absence of the Twin Towers.

BBC: Brand new old New York

The Millenium Hotel suffered structural damage and had 500 windows blown out when the Twin Towers collapsed.

CNN: Egyptian man near WTC on Sept. 11 charged