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“An airplane crashed, right now, in Queens, today.”
“Get out of here?”
“Yep, let’s go.”
Two months and one day after 9/11, workers at Ground Zero can be heard reacting to breaking news that another passenger jet had crashed in New York just 15 miles away.
American Airlines Flight 587 went down in Queens on November 12, 2001, killing all 260 people aboard and five people on the ground.
After everything New York had already been through, you can hear the disbelief in their voices.
A brutal few months for the city.
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Day 12 at Ground Zero: still on fire, recovery workers still combing through the wreckage, the former World Trade Center remains a pile of molten twisted steel.
The mall beneath the World Trade Center was enormous.
More than 70 stores and restaurants sat below the plaza, connected directly to the PATH station and subway system. Thousands of people passed through it every day on their way to work, grabbing coffee, shopping, eating lunch, or cutting across the complex.
It is easy to think of the Twin Towers as just two giant office buildings, but underneath them was basically an entire underground neighborhood.
On 9/11, much of it was destroyed or buried.
That is part of what makes old photos of the mall so interesting. It shows how much ordinary life existed beneath the towers.
Did you get a chance to visit?
Window washers on the upper floors of the north tower.
They would ride on powered-carriages that were built into the buildings themselves.
Most of the buildings were cleaned by a custom automated window-washing system, but there was still a lot of manual work involved, such as the upper floors which had wider windows, corners, and more difficult sections.
A few photos of the passageway between 1 World Trade Center and 6 World Trade Center, the U.S. Customs House.
The escalators and stairs here dropped directly into the North Tower lobby, while the revolving doors ahead led toward the elevated North Bridge across West Street and into the World Financial Center.
This area became a crucial escape route on 9/11. When the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m., Chief Joseph Pfeifer, Jules Naudet, and others inside the North Tower lobby ran toward these escalators. Naudet kept the camera rolling as the lights went out, dust and debris poured into the passageway, and the group scrambled through the darkness trying to get out.
Those stairs and escalators helped lead them away from the lobby and toward the bridge route that ultimately got Pfeifer and others across West Street.
It is strange seeing the space before 9/11 knowing how important it would become that morning.
And in a completely different chapter of WTC history, Lil’ Kim’s “No Time” music video was also filmed on these escalators.
El incendio en el Ground Zero tras el 11s continuó durante 100 días (3 meses y medio), logrando extinguirlo por completo casi a fin de año.
La remocion de escombros demoró 9 meses. El humo toxico estuvo por meses.
Ya hubo mas de 11000 victimas posteriores al 11s.
Some are saying this video feels like you’ve traveled back in time. To a simpler time.
I would agree.
Three friends from Argentina visiting the Twin Towers in June 2001, just three months before 9/11. They’re having a blast, making friends on the observation deck, taking in the views, and even riding scooters around the rooftop more than 1,000 feet above Manhattan.
Times were just more carefree back then.
Earlier in the footage, the three friends from Argentina can be seen scootering around the World Trade Center plaza, with WTC 4, WTC 5, and the Millennium Hotel in the background.
They eventually make their way to the base of the South Tower, enter at plaza level, and of course scooter right up to the observation deck ticket window.
$13.50 for a ride to the top.
They joke about how expensive it is, pull out all the cash they have, and count it up to make sure they can cover the tickets.
Vintage videos like this are awesome to look back on. Just ordinary people having a great day at a place that would soon be gone.
Footage of a group of visibly frustrated and concerned North Tower occupants being freed from the elevators.
They were likely trapped when Flight 11 struck at 8:46 a.m. and were rescued shortly before the South Tower collapsed, meaning some may have been stuck for over an hour.
Another incredible elevator story came from the 50th floor.
When Flight 11 hit, window washer Jan Demczur and five other men were trapped inside an express elevator. They forced the doors open, only to find a solid wall in front of them.
Demczur grabbed the metal handle from his squeegee and began smashing through the drywall. The men took turns widening the opening until all six could crawl through.
All six escaped.
The squeegee handle that helped save them is now preserved by the Smithsonian.
Donald Trump, then a New York real estate developer, presented his own proposal for rebuilding the World Trade Center.
Instead of the Freedom Tower plan, he backed “Twin Towers II”, two towers modeled closely after the originals, but slightly taller and stronger.
Trump said the goal was simple: rebuild the World Trade Center as the World Trade Center, “but better, a little bit taller, a lot stronger.”
It obviously never happened, but it is interesting to see how serious the debate over rebuilding the Twin Towers still was nearly four years after 9/11.