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ArtistThe floors beneath the plaza are much larger, covering the entire lot with a combined area of 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2). There are five basement levels below the concourse.[27][42][43] The first basement level was used mainly as a lower lobby and a banking floor.[43] There was also dining and kitchen space on the first and second basements; printing, tabulating, and mechanical spaces on the third basement; check handling on the fourth basement; and vaults on the fifth basement.[27][42] A truck ramp descends to the second basement;[27][42] the truck entrance, as well as ventilation grates for air intake and outflow, are on the Liberty Street side, below the raised plaza.[4][5] There is also a pedestrian entrance on the William Street side, below the plaza, which leads to the eastern part of the concourse.[5][43] According to Architectural Forum, the fifth basement had a "bank vault nearly the size of a football field", which sorted $35 billion worth of securities (equivalent to $246.6 billion in 2021)[44] and covered about half the site.[43]