|
THE WORLD
TRADE CENTER
In Solemn
Commemoration of September 11, 2001 |
All
photographs are unretouched.
| A nighttime long-lens view looking down the
Hudson River from Riverfront Park in Dobbs Ferry, 20 miles to the north of New York City,
taken in 1977. You can see the dark outline of the George Washington Bridge spanning
the Hudson River. The Empire State Building and other midtown buildings are to the
left of the left tower of the Bridge; the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are seen
from this angle as a single large block in the middle of the span. If you're
interested in broadcast history, this was before the installation of the antenna mast on
the North Tower.
This
photograph was a 10 minute time exposure; the streaks in the sky are airliners approaching
Newark Airport. Weird juxtaposition, in light of what happened. |
| Lower Manhattan, seen from the 86th Floor
Observation Deck of the Empire State Building, February 2001. The Twin Towers at the
upper right, now showing the antenna mast on the North Tower; the historic Flatiron
Building, and below it and to the left Madison Square Park, in the triangular intersection
of Twenty-third Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, in the lower foreground; the
Verrazzano Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, in the upper left. |
| Lower Manhattan seen from the
foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, September 1998. |
| Same place, a different
time. And a different era in our history. The cloud of smoke and dust above
where the Twin Towers stood is illuminated in this midnight photograph by worklights being
used by the rescue/recovery/salvage workers. Wednesday, September 19, 2001. |
| The Tribute in Light, some six months after
the towers came down, Spring 2002. Twin upward-shining spotlights illuminated the
lower Manhattan sky in tribute for about a month from a downtown site near where the
towers stood. In observation of the third anniversary of the attacks, the lights
are to be turned on again from dusk on Saturday, September 11, 2004, until dawn on Sunday. |
| Our beloved and wounded New York City on
fire. The eerie view from Riverfront Park in Dobbs Ferry on September 11, 2001, at
about four in the afternoon, showing the plume of smoke from the WTC disaster site.
Taken from the same location as the photo at the top of this page, but without the
telephoto lens. (Note: the photo at the top of WDFH's home page was taken that day
as well, from the same location but looking north up the river.) |
| Photographs copyright © 1977, 1998,
2001, 2002 by Marc Sophos |
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