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World Trade Center, view south from teh corner of Lispenard and Chruch STreet, September 11, 2001, 9:01 (EDT) [approximate time based on chronologies of the day]

September 10, 2011

Days in New York City, September 11, 2001-May, 2002, a photo essay

I have often wondered how many people in the metropolitan area saw some part of the events of September 11 in New York City with their own eyes, from streets and buildings in Manhattan, from Brooklyn, from New Jersey. Was it a million of us? Was it more? I have never seen speculation on the [...]

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Towers of Light

September 10, 2010

Towers of Light

Each September 11 that I have been in New York since 2001, I have gone out to stand at my corner at 9:02 AM as I was that day looking 14 blocks down Church street. And in the evening I try to get as close to the source of the Towers of Light, designed by [...]

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The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, as important a document as the writing is faint

August 19, 2010

My Whole Street is a Mosque

I live on Lispenard Street just south of Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, fourteen blocks North of Ground Zero. From my corner I saw with my own eyes the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center and I lived downtown through the scary nights and the many rough months after September [...]

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