I was at work when it happened. I along with a coworker had stood in the towers about six months prior. It broke my heart. I cried every year when they would do memorial programs about it.
i went there about 6 month ago, it was the exact same scenario .... I took some pictures of the buildings for a presentation i had to do for school, but seeing peaple with that much disrespect horrified me
It’s honestly very disrespectful…..I mean I get it, it’s a memorial but it’s not something to have fun with, it’s very serious and somber. My dad was one if the first responders with Rikers Island during that day, and he has only visited once……it disgusted him to see tourists taking selfies there.
@@tiamarrow6366 And there are so many fucking place to take selfie in new york ... Can't peaple just be respectful in ONE place ??? A memeber of my family was in the first tower survived by a miracle, its still one of the biggest trauma of his life. Seing this must make feel him sick ... (its a suposition because we lost contact with him, he was so traumatized that he left without a msessage or smth ....)
This is a great video to remind us again about an event that should not be allowed to fade away. Personally, it reminded me of my long days of work coverage from that day in 2001, thank you!
Thanks for all your hard work making this video. I know I say it a lot but I learn from every single one of your videos AND laugh the whole time. You rock!
I lost a good friend in that disaster. And, my family was very close for a time to the Tishman team, which built the first and the most recent iteration of the World Trade Center. Great review of the site. Thank you.
Another great video Tom. Can I recommend the film made on the day by two french brothers who happened to be making a documentary on a NYC fire station. Stunning and harrowing.
My late wife and I Took a picture under The Sphere in 1999, while we were dating. We wondered what had happened to it, and saw it in a temporary memorial in Battery Park. We both loved that sculpture. Sadly, she passed away 4 years ago from cancer, but I have brought our sons to see the current location. That sculpture is something of a metaphor for us, but we still love it.
Very well done, Tom. On August 28th, 2001, we played tourists and were on the South Tower's observation floor and on the rooftop walkway. Two weeks later...
So glad you referred to it as One World Trade Center. I still hear realtors and some content creators call it the Freedom Tower, which it hasn’t been since the Port Authority officially changed it in 2009!
I grew up in Conn and would go into the City every chance i could get. I remember when Phillipe Petit walked between the Towers and shortly after saw him doing a street show in the West Village. NY was so much fun back in those days ( drinking age was 18) and cheap enough to have fun in. Really enjoy your vids Tom, cannot believe your encyclopedic knowledge of history and lore.
My family and I visited New York last year for the first time. We had a great time. We took the PATH to the World Trade Center and were amazed by the Oculus. It's a gorgeous building. We went to the memorial pools and it was definitely an emotional experience. Standing on the ground that so many people tragically died was a very sobering experience. Thanks Tom for these videos. Your knowledge on so many topics concerning NY is next level
THE MORNING OF THE TRAGEDY, I WAS ON MY WAY TO WORK(THE DAYCARE WHERE I TAUGHT WAS NOT FAR FROM THE AREA)..I CHOSE TO WALK THAT MORNING, AND I'M NEVER GOING TO FORGET THE SOUND OF THE 2ND PLANE COMING AND HITTING THE 2ND TOWER!!...SO NOT ONLY AM I AFRAID OF "LOW FLYING" PLANES, LIKE THE SOUND LITERALLY MAKES ME JUMP, BUT JUST TO HAVE THAT "SIGHT AND SOUND" ENGRAVED IN MY MIND, FOREVER SUCKS!!!...I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE "NEW AREA" SINCE THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED...I MISS THE ORIGINAL TOWERS, WOULD HANG OUT THERE ALMOST ALL MY WEEKENDS, AS A TEEN...THIS VIDEO IS MY "FIRST" VISIT TO THE AREA...MAYBE ONE OF THESE DAYS I'LL WORK UP THE COURAGE TO GO VISIT IN PERSON.🙂
I'm glad that you did this video, everything aside. People seem to tend to forget about 9/11 and how things went down with it, and how things were in the country soon after! we need to be reminded.
I don't. I was in third grade and I saw it happen before getting on the bus. I probably didn't understand what was happening but I knew it was bad. 3000 people dead anyone that gets caught for having something to do with the attack even people who work for the government. The families that lost someone on 9/11 should decide their fate.
Very interesting video Tom. I know exactly where I was, also on almost the top floor of a fairly high building at work, I can still point out exactly where I was. A coworker came in to tell us. He was the company clown, so we were all waiting for the punchline....which afcourse never came. Such a horrible day, I'll never forget it. I was SO scared, you have no idea. Living alone didn't help....
I was just wee when 9/11 happened I remember the teachers looking kind of concerned and upset. My mam told me about it later when i got home from school. I remember the story of that crazy lady who lied about being in the tower that day and it somehow became a really huge story.
I went to the top when I was 11 back in '88. I was visiting my cousins, aunt, and uncle and they took me to all the hotspots. I interviewed my uncle a while back and he brought up the story of where he was on 9/11, I had no idea how close he was. He was far enough away but he just came into Manhatten from Queens. I could tell it bothered him greatly. Another great video, Tom, peace out!
I grew up in the lower east side in the 60s and 70s. Lower Manhattan (the Wall St area) was a ghost town on the weekends back then. It was not as residential as it is today, so the working folk were home elsewhere and there were zero tourists.
Thank you for sharing your tours in New York. I still have not come to see the new World Trade Center area. I use to live in New York in the 1970s and I would walk around the old two World Trade Center 1 & 2. And there were the other buildings surrounding the area.
My dad was a Rikers Correctional Officer at the time, (worked there from when my older sister was born, to when I started middle school) and was one of the first responders. According to him and my mom….I was 2 years old, and at my grandma’s house when it happened, my mom was at work at a local university in our area (she used to work at the WTC) and my sister was in college. There was no way in or out of the city when it happened, it was completely chaotic and by time my dad made it back home….it was like 1:00 in the morning. He was actually given a book filled with aerial pictures of the damage, as well as the attack as it happened. He still has that book to this day, and I refuse to read it. Every year in school whenever 9/11 would fall on a school day, when I was in history class….my teachers would play a video pf the attacks, and I had to leave the room because of how traumatic it was for me. Although my dad survived, he does have a few health issues. I’ve only been to the memorial once on a school trip back during my senior year of high school and my dad’s picture was actually there…..he actually still has that picture in his phone. It’s heartbreaking that the museum closed, so I’m hoping it will open again in the near future.
@@alexibarra3472 yeah it closed I believe in August or early September like right before 9/11. The memorial itself is still opened to the public, but the museum I guess didn’t have enough funds due to the pandemic so it closed down.
Excellent, respectful, informative introduction and tour. I do wish you'd included St. Paul's Chapel, in part because of the role that it played for those who worked to rescue work and the removal of rubble.
There’s a great video on how they clean the memorial (reflective pools and metal name carvings) every night. It’s unbelievable how disrespectful people are; throwing garbage into the water and scratching inappropriate things into the metal right next to survivors’ names. It’s depressing knowing that in another 100 years there will be absolutely nobody who lived through it and it won’t seem real to any future citizens, despite all the film and photographic archive footage of the event.
1776 is when the 13 colonies (aka United States) declared their independence from England. Amazing that they incorporated that symbolism into the new WTC by making its height 1,776 feet. (Just in case anyone missed that).
Hi Tom. An interesting part of the back story is that the lower west side docks were a wreck, but due to encroaching containerization of shipping there was no future for them, even though NY city government held out hope, mostly in a vain attempt to frustrate the Port Authority which was building out the new Newark and Elizabeth port facilities. So the trade center eventually happened atop what used to be the 19th century busy Manhattan waterfront on the Hudson.
I remember I was sleeping and my brother woke me up and told a plane hit the tower. I first thought it was a small plane but we know the rest is history. The rest of the day was kind of a blur. Was working that day too. I was working cleaning in my local steel mill Dofasco. I think everyone was kind of shocked and in disbelief. Never forget9/11🙏
I used to go there in the 90s for seminars on world trade & also US Customs over in 5 World Trade. I knew a man who actually worked for the Port Authority at 1WTC & he was there both times. Luckily he survived. Dark days in the city. It's a shame that the 9/11 museum closed because of funding issues.
nope. it's. a lesser known 9/11 tribute museum that closed permanently due to the pandemic@@MamaCarola1. the oficial 9/11 Memorial Museum located underneath the memorial pools, where the foundation of the towers once stood is still open
Alot of people never even visited the towers..I was in elementary school..as classmates Dad worked for the port authority..was on observation deck never forget it plus the lunch they gave us.... 🍀🐱
living in Hawaii, on 9/11 the call came early from a mainland friend. She warned me of the news. I vividly recal the lack of air traffic in the islands being a distant connection of what tragic events had happened. It was a very eerie silence felt in the Mid Pacific.
This is the first video I have seen on your channel and my jaw is almost dropping at how I an smiling, letting out a giggle, and rewinding to hear your comedic relief while watching such a serious subject as 911. I hope you know how good you are! God bless the victims and their families. Thank you for the positivity. I remember the day this happened and I was devastated. Changed my life🙏
My grandmother had to go downtown to visit my grandfather while he was having hesrt surgery and recovery. She would stop by and watch them build the towers. She couldn't believe something could be that big. She was alive when they fell 6 months after the death of my grandfather.
Always remember the smelly Big Duck as kids driving out to my grandparents in Springs. 1960’s the LIE wasn’t finished. Had to take Sunrise to Montauk Highway. Glad they restored it.
Anyone who throws in an early Simpsons reference earns my respect (and a sub!) Interesting history about the area before the World Trade Center was built. Didn't know so many people were against it.
I was on tour with a band called Stereomud and we had a day off in Minneapolis at a hotel next to the airport. Woke up and turned on the news as one of the NYC based band members knocked on the door. All day watching the news channels and the lack of air traffic at the airport which was busy with arrivals and departures the night before...
This was the first video I ever watched by yours. It seems, you´re a very nice man. I always dreamt to travel New York, but I never did. When I was little my older sister and I hab a huge wallpaper about Manhattan Skyline in our childensroom. I was so fascinated by all the skyscrappers. But next year I turn 50 and I want to fulfil my childhood dream to travel my beloved USA. But I`m not sure if I should go to Dallas or New York. And I hope my English is good enough. Sometimes I`m afraid to speak, because I`m afraid to make mistakes and make a fool about myself. My native laguage is German. I`m Austrian. But it was really a great experience to watch a video made by you. With all the humor and information. Great job!
Hey Tom! Noticed you had a New Zealand cap on. (I’m a NYer but have friends that just visited us from there. We took them to the WTC. They were impressed.) I look forward to when you say crud and you didn’t this time. 😑 still love ya.
I got up the old World Trade tower3 times . Was there the the first January after the event. There was stuff floating out of windows nearby and one huge Stars and Stripes flag over one office building adjacent to the site.
I was in high school on 84 st walked to 59st on the east side because we heard that the train on that side was working but it wasn’t ended up walking all the way to the Bronx
Yea, the Oculus retractable skylight doesn't open. Santiago Calatrava Valls ... 0:36 AT&T Long Line Building (33 Thomas St.) behind Tom Henry Morgan, a.k.a. Henry Lerner von Ost Jr., humorist, along with Jane Jacob was against razing the businesses for the WTC site. Don't have a clue why I know that.
New Yorkers! Petition the City to ban all photography within 50 feet of the Monument & to post signs reminding visitors to be respectful and conduct themselves accordingly.
Lord of Heaven, please give me 2 wishes that, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives back in reality here on earth in June 25th, 1993. But, also Paxton Booth, Jason Maybaum, Julia Butters and her friend Leo, Raphael Alejandro, Elie Samouhi, Kaylin Hayman, Malakai Carey, Scarlett Estevez, Will Buie Jr., Luke Busey, Alfred Lewis, Shiloh Verrico, Caitlin Reagan and her friends, Maverick Thompson, That Girl Lay Lay, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Santino Barnard, Chase Brosamle and Cozy DesRoches, Maxwell Simkins, Zane Austin, Hendrix Kate Yancey and her friends, Tinsley Price, Anniston Price, Martie Marie Blair, Avangeline Marie Friedlander, Jeremiah Friedlander, Lana Jean Turner and Reagan Bentley Williams, Francesca Capaldi, Jacob Laval, Layla Capers, Colton Osorio Isabella Preston, Cate Elefante, Parker Dzuba, Parker & Olivia Weathersbee, Tyler Wladis, Sam Middleton, Dalya Knapp, Sophie Knapp, Danielle Anne, Niesha Renee and Madeleine Marie Guilbot, Elsa Avery Dees,Stefani Elefante Healey, Isaiah Givens, Raegan Revord, Christian Isaiah, Iain Armitage, Elias Harger, Mia Talerico, Kylee Brown, Valentina Gordon, London Cheshire, Jaden Roberts, Jaren Lewison, Wyatt Mcclure, Evan O'Toole, Hattie Kragten, Molly Lewis (V), Hayden Haas, Kue Lawrence, McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives back in reality here on earth in July 1st, 2000 and Austin Lux, Hope Henderson, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Kyla Drew Simmons, Aidan Gallagher, Casey Simpson, Mace Coronel, Lydia Boland, Lizzy Greene, Lincoln Melcher, Brandon Severs, Bryce Gheisar, Chloe Guidry, Cody Veith, Jillian Shea Spaeder, Issac Ryan Brown, Sky Katz, Billy Angel, Mallory James Mahoney, Jet Jurgensmeyer, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Dakota Lotus, Kylie Cantrall, Ramon Reed, Navia Robinson, Albert Tsai, Ruby Rose Turner, Sierra Mccormick, Aedin Mincks, Ivy George, Lindsey Lamer, Candace Kozak and her friend, Fletcher, will be born as their new lives back in reality here on earth in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life back in reality here on earth in June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all get older, died and Rest In Peace to heaven in the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero, altered time back in 2004 and back in 2008, so Peyton Roi List and Aedin Mincks can do karate when they were 1st grade in karate class and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
