1 World Trade Center Now Tallest Building in Western Hemisphere Workers permanently installed the spire atop 1 World Trade Center. The building now stands at a symbolic 1,776 feet. And this pic is majestic. Read more More
World Trade Center on Its 40th Anniversary: Then and Now A look back at the construction of the Twin Towers over 40 years ago and the bright future that 1 World Trade Center is bringing back to New York. Read more More
Let Our Reflections on 9/11 Be Only a Brief Pause ‘We learned lessons. We forgot lessons. We searched for meaning. We blocked out pain. The country changed. The world changed. You’ve changed. I’ve changed … We should never stop learning lessons, stop changing.’ Read more More
Freaky: This 1979 Pakistan Airline Ad Featuring Twin Towers Is Very Real The big bold shadow cast upon the dominance of the Twin Towers — quite striking. That the buildings would come down in this fashion 22 years later is just spooky. Read more More
Let Our Reflections on 9/11 Be Only a Brief Pause It’s always nice to pause and reflect, as we will this Sunday. But after that brief pause for reflection, let us also continue to process and progress. We owe it to the fallen to grow in a way that would honor and preserve their legacies as ours. Read more More
I Was New to New York When the World Exploded “After a few hours, I reached home, sat down, drank a beer. And then the sitting began for two weeks, glued to the television. Slowly the details came, and with it a bout of depression, then a brief bout of patriotism. Both passed.” Read more More
The Pencils of Promise Family Shares 9/11 Memories Our friends at Pencils of Promise share three disparate first-hand accounts of the events of September 11th, 2001: from a Wall Street financier who changed her life to an 8th grader in California to a little girl who wanted to watch cartoons. Read more More