Fulton Center train station opens in New York - in pictures

People pass the Fulton Center transit hub in New York. The center also features retail and office space. Mark Lennihan / AP Photo

Commuters look up and photograph the newly opened Fulton Center train station in lower Manhattan. The station was scheduled to open in 2007 as part of the rebuilding effort of lower Manhattan after 9/11, but the project ran into cost overruns and years of delays. The original plan for the facility, which has a glass and steel shell and 66,000 square feet of retail and office space, was projected at $750 million and nearly doubled to $1.4 billion before it was finished. The station features a 10-foot-high glass opening, or oculus, which sits above an atrium that lets sunlight down into two levels below street level. The station makes it easier to connect between nine subway lines: the A, C, J, Z, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Riders will eventually also be able to connect to the E and 1 trains, as well as the PATH. Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP

People walk through the newly opened Fulton Center. Mike Segar / Reuters

People gather for a ceremony at the entrance of the Fulton Center. Mark Lennihan / AP Photo

A man admires the Sky-Reflector-Net built into the conical dome at the Fulton Center. The Fulton Center began life as a public-transit out of five subway stations built in the early 1900s. A century later, and more than a decade after part of the Lower Manhattan subway complex was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the nine subway lines that converge on Fulton Street and Broadway have been knit together anew. Up to 300,000 passengers a day are expected to pass through the newly finished 1.4 billion-dollar-station. Jewel Samad / AFP

A man looks at a digital subway map at the new Fulton Center. Andrew Gombert / EPA

Commuters move through the new Fulton Center. Andrew Gombert / EPA

A musician plays a violin as commuters wait to catch their train at the Fulton Center. Jewel Samad / AFP

Commuters walk through the newly opened Fulton Center. Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP

The newly opened Fulton Center train station is viewed in lower Manhattan. Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP

Commuters look up and photograph the newly opened Fulton Center. Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP

The $1.4 billion hub links the World Trade Center to nine subway lines in lower Manhattan and is designed to serve up to 300,000 passengers daily.