 Martin Scorsese (qv) ends the film with a shot of the New York  skyline which includes the World Trade Center Towers, even though  the film was finished after the buildings were destroyed in the  terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Scorsese chose to end on  that shot rather then continue with a skyline without the WTC  because the movie is supposed to be about the people who build New  York, not those who tried to destroy it.