This was taken on 14th Street by Avenue A about 9-18-2001. This was a street artist's memorial to 9-11. Flowers were quickly placed after the street artists made his drawing.
This is a coversheet of my negatives from photos I took in NY in August 2001. I look at them everyday now and I am still in shock that the two towers I once photographed were brutally taken away with the innocent lives of many people.
This is a picture I took while my wife and I were visiting New York on August 18th, just three weeks prior to the attacks. We had intended to go to the top to see the view, but because of the long wait, we decided we'd do it the next time we were in NYC. Following September 11th, I remembered having taken the picture, and seeing it again was especially poignant as we had been there so recently. The towers were remarkable structures; I hope this picture can serve as a reminder of their immense scale.
A couple of weeks after the 11th, I decided I needed to photograph the city. Each block was changed or seemed to have changed -- and I planned a walk up Fifth Ave. from 34th St to 57th St. "Women in Black," an international organization of women peace activists, held a silent vigil in front of the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
I had planned my trip all year. My friends tried to talk me out of going of fear that I might be putting my self in danger. I felt and knew that I had to go. This photo was taken at Union Square on 9/23/2001. The model of the two towers , constructed of childrens bicycle license plates with the paint removed, reminded us all of the people lost. You can just make out the names. The City air, still thick with the smell of the attack, left a strange taste as you breathed. The park was filled with people trying to deal with the shock from the last 12 days. I remember that I kept looking up expecting to see the towers. My friend Dave was the co-pilot on American Airlines Flight 77. I miss his smiling face. The whole day/month/year was strange, like I had lost my anchor and was adrift at sea.
This is a digital picture I took on the evening of October 3rd, 2002 while in town on business. The Cross at Ground Zero was constructed from "I" beams from the buildings. America is truly the land of the free and the home of the brave. No matter what is done with the site; the Cross should always remain as a lasting memorial to those free people who lost their lives and the brave, who tried to save them.
A picture of the Lower Manhattan skyline taken in Nov. 1996 from on top of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
Street between 5 WTC and the Post office. If it was not made of metal it was gone. Tires burned to the rim, no melted anything, just ash.
This is a picture of the WTC towers from March, 1987. I was on the boat going to the Statue of Liberty when I took this picture. After Sept. 11, I went through my photos because I knew I had it somewhere. It will always be a very moving picture to me.
Hopefully, people who live near the D.C. area saw the damaged Pentagon. I was saddened by what I saw. My mom works downtown and she saw the black smoke coming out of the Pentagon. I hope nothing like this every happens again here or anywhere in the U.S.
World Trade Center and Empire State Building as seen from Staten Island's St. George/New Brighton section. Photo taken during the Fall of 1998.
For some reason, when I first moved to NYC, I was facinated with the Twin Towers. Therefore I took numerous shots of them from different perspectives. This particular is one with my wife in the foreground from Liberty State Park. This is a poignant photograph for she & I. The reason is that she was working directly across the Hudson from the towers on that fateful day. She was at Newport center when she saw the entire event unfold before her & her co-workers.
Picture taken from my first (and to date only) visit on top of WTC 2 taken on 6/09/01.
It was taken in march of 2001. From a helicopter.
This is part of the landing gear from one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11. I was doing the orange safety netting on the Federal Building, which is directly across the street from Ground Zero. The FBI and Postal Inspectors didn't allow anyone on the upper roof where the landing gear and other airplane parts had fallen. I had access because we were putting up the safety netting to keep the broken glass from falling on the rescue workers in the street. As of this date, I have not seen another picture of this landing gear on the Federal Building!
This was one of the several postcards my mother and I purchased when we arrived in New York City (March 31,2000). I was actually thinking of sending this postcard to a friend back home but later on I changed my mind and sent the Empire State Building postcard instead, keeping this spectacular postcard for myself. I kept this postcard in my study table as a souvenir and a reminder of my unforgettable trip abroad. After witnessing the horror of 9/11 from cable TV (The Philippines is about 10,000 miles away from NYC), I videotaped the news for posterity and then I simply looked at my souvenir postcard, realizing how lucky I was to have seen the World Trade Center before it vanished right before our very eyes.
We visted Ground Zero again, this past month. We had to take this picture. Remember the heroes. Never Forget.