decade of booming real estate values. New York was also able to attract more business and convert abandoned industrialized neighborhoods into arts or attractive residential neighborhoods; examples include the Meatpacking District and Chelsea (in Manhattan) and Williamsburg (in Brooklyn). New York's population reached an all-time high in the 2000 census; according to census estimates since 2000, the city has continued to grow, including rapid growth in the most urbanized borough, Manhattan. During this period, New York City was a site of the September 11 attacks of 2001; 2,606 people who were in the towers and in the surrounding area were killed by a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, an event considered highly traumatic for the city but which did not stop the city's rapid regrowth. On November 3, 2014, One World Trade Center opened on the site of the attack. Hurricane Sandy brought a destructive storm surge to New York in the evening of October 29, 2012, flooding numerous streets, tunnels, and subway lines in Lower Manhattan. It flooded low-lying areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Electrical power was lost in many parts of the city and its suburbs. The city went into lockdown in March 2020 amidst the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. , New York City has experienced the most deaths of any locality in the coronavirus pandemic in New York state, which itself has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases of any state in the United States. During the first wave, one-third of total known U.S. cases were in New York City. See also American urban history Timeline of New York City Here Grows New York - film history of city from 1609 to present Boroughs History of the Bronx History of Brooklyn History of Queens History of Staten Island History of Manhattan Streets and thoroughfares History of Fifth Avenue History of Broadway History of Wall Street Small islands Hart Island Rikers Island Randall's Island Liberty Island Governors Island City Island Roosevelt Island Ellis Island – New Jersey/NYC Miscellany New-York Historical Society Museum of the City of New York New York: A Documentary Film New York City water supply system Timeline of New York City crimes and disasters Kenneth T. Jackson — historian List of newspapers in New York in the 18th century Notes References Further reading Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (U of Minnesota Press,