Around the World Trade Center Site, September 2006

September 17, 2006
"The skyscrapers of New York" -- Words in the lobby display of the new 7 World Trade Center

September 17, 2006
"... the two Towers rise..."

September 17, 2006
Post No Bills: The two towers shown next to the 10 House fire station on the construction fence surrounding the Deutsche Bank building, Liberty Street

September 17, 2006
Five years later a door on Cedar Street still bears the painted marking that it was searched by FDNY on 9-15, 4 days after the towers fell

September 17, 2006
Behind the firehouse on Liberty Street, a promise to never forget...

September 17, 2006
... while on the sidewalk below, flowers from the memorial observances await the garbage pickup

September 17, 2006
Note to Dennis, bobby-pinned to the fence at Church and Vesey

September 9, 2006
Truck from the Engine 10 Ladder 10, the firehouse nearest to the World Trade Center

September 9, 2006
Church Street: firefighters from Boston rode their motorcycles to the site in remembrance of the firefighters lost on September 11

September 9, 2006
Entrance to the PATH station

September 9, 2006
Looking at photographs displayed on the fence around the World Trade Center site

September 9, 2006
The Tribute Center on Liberty St.

September 9, 2006
Sign outside of the St. Paul's Chapel: Survivor of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001

September 9, 2006
The landscape architect Ken Smith (second from left) in front of the Eleven Tears memorial he designed for American Express to remember their eleven employees who died in the World Trade Center

September 9, 2006
The crystal at the center is an eleven-sided 600 pound Brazilian quartz set in a stainless steel ring and suspended from 11 cables from a 35 foot ceiling

September 9, 2006
The Eleven Tears memorial was unveiled on September 8, 2003 and is located in the American Express building of the World Financial Center across the street from where the World Trade Center used to stand

The Bellevue Hospital Wall of Prayer

The Museum of the City of New York is restoring the 200 foot construction site fence from outside Bellevue Hospital that became a memorial to the missing of September 11. Every bit of the postings on the panels are being removed, including the tape. It is then being carefully conserved and reassembled to appear as it did immediately after the attacks.



The posters are striking for three reasons. One, the intimate physical details listed: moles, birthmarks, tattoos in every place on the body imaginable, long-ago scars now healed.

Two: many many people were last seen on high floors, from which there was no escape.

And most heartbreaking of all, the happiness in their faces. Many are shown playing with babies, going out to eat with friends, vacationing on a cruise, or just being with their spouse.

Many posters say simply "last seen on Tuesday", as if one particular Tuesday is all that matters, as if one Tuesday, the world changed so completely that it needs no further reference. And it speaks to the newness of the tragedy when these posters first went up: maybe it was only Thursday or Saturday when they were taped to this wall.

The fence remained until early November 2001 when it was removed as the construction going on behind it proceeded. It is now part of the 9/11 Archives of the Museum of the City of New York.

Tribute in Light and Staten Island Postcards Memorial

At dusk, on September 11, the Tribute in Light shines over lower Manhattan. It remains until dawn.

The towers originate from the top of a parking garage in lower Manhattan.

The Light Towers from the Staten Island ferry

View from the September 11 memorial on Staten Island

Postcards memorial

There is a marker for everyone from Staten Island who died. It lists their name, birthday, the company they worked for and their job. And there is a silhouette of their face.

Red roses were supplied for inserting into the spaces beside the names