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Timothy Speed Levitch, the eccentric New York tour guide who was featured in the documentary The Cruise, saw the WTC Towers as competitive twins. The events of September 11 inspired him to write the spoken-word piece, Sibling Rivalry. In this…

John Rollins, the former publisher of Spin magazine, recalls the concert he put on with English techno band Spiritualized at Windows on the World.

David is a doctor at St. Vincents. On 9/11 he helped set up an emergency room but treated only 6 people. He then decided to help at the ground zero triage center.

Oregonian Stan Strange recalls being awakened by a dog wailing on 9/11, something he has never heard before or since. He immediately knew something had happened.

In 1993 TV producer Steve Alpert made a documentary for New York Telephone Company in response to the bombing at the WTC.

Steve Ohr wrote a story about an adventure he had on the 89th floor of the WTC in 1976.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He remembers many different sounds--the elevators, halls, escalators. He wishes he had archived more.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, talks about growing up in New York and working on the harbor as a teen. To him, the view of the WTC represented Manhattan. He started making punk rock music, then moved…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, talks about security measures at the WTC after the 1993 bombing and how, as an artist, he felt a little like an outsider. He also talks about his experience of 9/11--a…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He discusses living and working in the WTC space and how it was different from other spaces.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, recalls the ambient sounds he recorded with contact mics attached to the windows of the WTC. His most widely heard sounds were recorded during Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He discusses getting started at the WTC, figuring out how to work with the compositional tools of his environment, and…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He discusses figuring out the technology for his project and explains that, once he did that, he felt more in tune with the…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. After 9/11, he had to find appropriate ways of sharing his work while remaining respectful of those who died. Today, the…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He describes his studio and how he used it as a testing ground for people's reactions to their environments.

In this recording of street sounds from Radio Row in 1929, you can hear shopkeepers blasting phonographs and radios.

This recording of the scene outside the WTC as the first tower collapsed was broadcast on NPR's Weekend Edition on September 15, 2001. Reporter Steven Manning made the recording on September 11th.

New Yorker Suellen Epstein lives three blocks from the WTC and saved the telephone messages she received on 9/11.

Sylvia Bloom remembers a brunch she enjoyed at Windows on the World in 1980.

Arizonan Kathleen Paul used to live on Long Island and remembers pulling off the road during her commute to watch the sun setting between the towers.