Photographer Peter Foley was able to capture firefighters digging on the rubble on the day the towers fell because one of the lieutenants from the West Side firehouse where Foley had lived for a year smuggled him on board a bus transporting firefighters to search for survivors at Ground Zero. ( Photo: Courtesy Peter Foley) 25 Years After 9/11: World Trade Center Remembrances “That’s going to be a good one,” said the photographer “you have the World Trade Center in the background!” I remember the... Voices 04 Sep 2026 | 08:39
The beverage giant Diageo is laying off more than one-third of its workforce at its North American headquarters, located at 3 World Trade Center, as Americans drink less. ( Photo: Jack Ahern) Diageo to Lay Off 305 Workers at WTC Hub as Alcohol Consumption Slides Diageo, which owns flagship beverage brands such as Guinness and Johnnie Walker, will be letting go more than a third of... News 28 Aug 2026 | 03:52
Left: NYPD Running Club’s littlest member with his parents at the start. Right: 66th Precinct runners in the tunnel. ( Photos: Brian Berger, NYPD 66th Precinct) The Sun Shines Bright on 24th Annual Tunnel to Towers Run The mostly quiet weekend streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Lower Manhattan surged to abundant life as more than 30,000 people... News 29 Sep 2025 | 11:29
The World Trade Center “Tribute in Light” installation sent beams of hope heavenard from Ground Zero on 9/11/25, the 24th anniversary of the terror attack. ( Photo: Philip Maier) Terror Will Never Win: 1000s Gather at Ground Zero for 9/11 Memorial Born from the often unspeakable horrors that shocked the world on a bright, warm Tuesday morning 24 years ago, the solemn... News 15 Sep 2025 | 01:23
History would tell us that the events of 30 years ago, in which a truck bomb was detonated in the basement of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26 that killed six but failed to bring down the towers was preamble to the attacks eight years later. The above photo was taken four months after the first attack with the Twin Towers still standing. Photo: Robert Ashworth, Wikimedia Commons. Before 9/11, New Yorkers Were Jolted by the First WTC Attack 30 Years Ago We will never forget the pain and trauma of Sept. 11, 2001. If we lived in the city on that infamous date, we will have a... News 27 Feb 2023 | 12:10
The September 11 Commemoration Ceremony in 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Forever Epicenter History constantly recalibrates our threshold of the unfathomable. What we thought was unbearable turns out to have been... Home 08 Sep 2021 | 01:45
Memorial Lights, Sept. 11, 2020. Photo: Florin C, via Flickr Downtown: 20 Years After 9/11 Two decades ago, our world changed on Tuesday, September 11th with the largest terrorist attack on American soil at the heart... News 30 Aug 2021 | 08:44
