A large transit station was not part of the 2003 Memory Foundations master plan for the site by Daniel Libeskind , which called for a smaller station along the lines of the original subterranean station that existed beneath the World Trade Center . Libeskind 's design proposed that the current station house 's site be left as an open plaza , forming a " Wedge of Light " so that sun rays around the autumnal equinox would hit the World Trade Center footprints each September . The plaza would have included a wedge whose lines showed the sun 's rays at 8:46 a.m. and 10:28 a.m. on September 11 of each year . These times respectively represented when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower and when it collapsed
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11
World Trade Center station (PATH)