September 11 Digital Archive Photos

Union Square on the afternoon of September 13.

The World Trade Center site, from West Street, looking NE. April 2, 2002. I felt drawn to the site in the months after. I visited the site so many times between Sep 2001 and June 2002. I guess I felt like I needed closure. I still haven't found that…

Composite Panoramic view of the 7-story deep hole, just a few days prior to the recover effort being ended.

The hand painted nose of a Marine AH-1W Cobra attack helicopter glimmers in the hot desert sun in southern Afghanistan December 2, 2001.

First time in NYC, visiting from Toronto, Canada in 1999. I was totally blown away by the shear magnitude of the towers. Here's a close up I took while sightseeing in the Big Apple.

at a prayer vigil in central park, 9/16

Whats left of a fire truck. Taken 9-11-01

Sept 12th 2001, 14th and A(?)... my friend Anthony and I walking to the United Nations to try and meet up with the rest of our group.

This is from a series of photos I took of the beloved towers while I was a student at NYU.

Near ground zero, God bless America.

This was on the first day lower Manhattan was opened along what would have been bustling Wall Street.

This is a photo I took from the top of the WTC of the mast on 2WTC.

This is the lobby of the Millenium Hotel. The bottle of champagne on top of the piano caught my eye the moment I
first stepped through the entrance of the hotel.
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This was taken during Fleet Week 2000. It's the USS Mc Faul, and it was the sister ship of the DDG-67 USS Cole which was attacked by Bin Laden's folks during a visit to Yemen in October of 2000. In less than a year, WTC was attacked and destroyed by…

Samantha and the World Trade Center. Taken sometime in 1997 from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ.

The Pentagon taken Thursday, September 13, 2002.

Taken by a co-worker from 47th floor of 140 Broadway. This is WTC2 one second after the plane hits. This series of photos started shortly after WTC1 was hit and continues until 140 Broadway was evacuated. There are more pictures looking down into…

Photo taken in Bali, Indonesia around 10am on September 12th. Headline reads "10,000 possibly dead". I am a Chinese American Citizen. Born and raised in Brooklyn NY. I watched CNN in disbelief from my Villa in Bali.

This is a shot I took of 3 guys walking away from Ground Zero in the Wall Street area of Manhattan in early December, 2001. I loved the imagery of these 3 happy guys, carrying on with life, juxtaposed with the massive devastation behind them.