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In the summer of 1987 I did an internship with a Wall Street firm on the 105th floor of 2 WTC. The elevator ride from the street level to the sky lobby on 78 took less than a minute. You could feel the building sway slightly during a summer thunderstorm, and on a clear day, the view was spectacular. Shout out to the past and current members of The Ten House (FDNY) on Liberty Street who frequently kept their doors open and let a kid from Long Island check out their firehouse #NEV3R4G3T 🗽

My nephew’s wife has told us that her father worked in the second tower to be hit. After the first tower was hit, they started to leave and were told to go back. He ignored that instruction and left anyway with several coworkers…they all survived.

I spent a great deal of time in New York when I was a child, and summer of 2001 was no exception. I was 8 years old at the time. My great uncle was a prominent businessman who did a lot of work in Manhattan, and I remember a great deal of time between August and September being spent near and around the World Trade Center. We went to the Observation Deck of the South Tower on a few occasions. My great uncle also took us to Windows on the World one night in early September. To those of you who have never experienced it, I can never explain how small one felt to stand between those two giants in the plaza. On Sunday the 9th of September we left New York, and two days later the world changed forever. My mother has some of the last photos that exist of the Twin Towers, developed after the attacks (This was a time before digital cameras were widespread). I keep some of the photos of me and my sister with the towers behind us, taken days before they were destroyed, and they never cease to remind me that this was a time where the world was a far different place.

It took me 15 years to get the strength to go to NYC and visit the memorial. It is still today, the most moving experience I have had in my life.

Some of the steel from the Twin Towers was used to build the U.S.S. New York (LPD21), a U.S. Navy amphibious transport ship. I worked at the shipyard that built her and I am quite honored to have been a part of her construction.

RIP the 6 broadcast engineers who rode the north tower down while keeping their transmitters on until the very last second.

My class traveled to the World Trade Center towers in 1979. Our 5th grade class left Philly for a New York trip, and was supposed to go to the Empire State building. Somehow, the appointments were double booked with other schools. They suggested the World Trade Center towers. After calling ahead, and arranging a tour, we traveled there. The express elevators made my ears pop. It was the outside observation deck I remembered the most. Cars looked like toys, and people looked like ants. The guide was really expressive and made the tour interesting. My sister who came along to chaperone (was a senior in high school) loved it the most. I had promised my oldest daughter in 2001, who was seven at the time, that when I had her baby sister in November, we would go in March 2002. She was fascinated by the buildings and my story of my trip. Sadly, that promise never got fulfilled.

I grew up with movies which featured them and I loved their iconic impact on the NY skyline. I never had the chance to see or visit them, and yet I vastly miss them. It's not the same without them.

I remember riding the Express Elevator, it was so fast, I felt the air pressure affecting my ears! And the view from the roof was spectacular! After the attack, what I will never forget is the smell and the amount almost a foot deep grey dust in surviving storefronts. And the huge holes and damage in the surrounding buildings from falling bits of the WTC. It was heartbreaking seeing it in person.

You forgot to mention the controversy over first responders getting sick and dying after helping with rescue efforts and cleaning up the debris and the government's efforts to avoid compensating those people.

Way back in 2001, me and couple of my colleagues were the ones that designed and built the website for the LMDC for the public to submit their plans for the new WTC site. It was an honor to be able to do that work.

I stayed at the Marriott between the towers in May 2001, took my sons to NYC in May 2005 to see the huge hole that remained, and went back in 2018 with my fiancé to see the memorial. You can't get through it without tearing up, if not out right crying, but it is a MUST see. However, it was wonderful to see all the rebuilding still going on. New Yorkers have to be the most resilient people in the world. I now live on Long Island and the city seems to have gone back to "normal" after 9/11 and the COVID scare.

My dad was working at Rikers as a corrections officer at the time of 9/11 (I was 2 years old I believe) and according to him…..it was just heartbreaking. I mean from all the debris just being spread out throughout the city, to all of the people screaming and running away, and then of course the fact that there were unfortunately dead bodies….it was a lot for him. I don’t know if every school in America does this but at my old high school….every 9/11 as long as it fell on a school day, we would watch videos of that day, and I could never be in the room because even though I didn’t lose anyone on that day, just the fact that I could’ve lost my dad….it was too overwhelming for me. After 23 years, I finally decided to watch just one video of the attacks as it happened, and I was fully in tears.

I grew up in NYC, but moved to the UK, a few years prior to 9/11. As a child, I watched with fascination as the towers grew. I was 10 when it was completed. It started my lifelong passion of skyscrapers, and architecture in general. In the early 80's, I used to work 2 blocks from the towers and often spent my lunch hour in the mall, under the towers. Watching the towers fall from the UK was heart breaking for me, those towers held a special place in my heart. What made it worse was imagining being in the underground mall when the planes hit. It gave me nightmares. As tragic as it was, in the aftermath, something started to dawn on me, which gave me hope. The attack itself was meant to divide people across the globe and take away hope. However, I always saw Manhattan as quite unique because every (or nearly every) nationality on the planet lives on that island. In effect, the world is contained on that small island. Countless people were involved in helping, in whatever way they could, after the towers fell. This meant the world worked together, for the good of all in need. So, I didn't see people and races divided, I saw them united. What's the old 60's song? "United We Stand, Divided We Fall." That was what I took away from 9/11. Hope that we can ALL be united.

I was fortunate enough to visit The World Trade Centre in summer of 2001, merely weeks before the attacks as it happens. I was there with two friends and remember being in awe of those buildings. Just magnificent. Spent several hours there and met so many lovely people. I remember where I was when the news broke. I recall immediately thinking of the people we had met on our visit and if they had survived. Even now, the footage is hard to watch.

I worked for Ace Elevator. We had the contact for the elevators and Escalators modernization program. At the time we was in the process of modernization of both the elevators and escalators when this happened. I was in the North Tower the day before delivering brand new shimms for one of the many elevators of the property. Our company also had a contract with 1 Wall Street. And days after the disaster, I went to the top of 1 Wall Street and looked down at the destroyed World Trade Center and the trucks carrying debris from the site looked like small toys moving through a steel pile. I've witnessed two aftermaths of disaster. TWA Flight 800 where i was in the Grumman Hanger of the rebuild 747 that exploded over L.I., and the World Trade Center. Quite sad for one person to know.

I have a coffee table made from a window of the WTC. It was removed and replaced a few days before the attack and I hadn’t yet thrown it away. So when the attack happened I cut off the damaged area and put it in what was a marble table.

The new World Trade Center buildings don’t catch the eye like the old ones!! They were truly spectacular. 😪

In addition to Radio Row, the World Trade Center also displaced the lower Manhattan produce and food distribution center, which was relocated in Hunts Point in the Bronx. Another holdout was Sy Syms' menswear store on Cortlandt Street. He used his settlement with the developers to expand his business into a significant east coast chain. Its gone now, but the Sy Syms School of Business still exists at Yeshiva University. I worked in lower Manhattan in 1967 to 69 while WTC was being built. The open-air observation deck was like no other, and nothing like it will ever exist again. I still have photos of my nephew and nieces taken during an excursion there. On a clear day you could see all the way to Pennsylvania. After 9/11 I couldn't drive up the New Jersey Turnpike for months. Aside from the column of smoke, the New York skyline looked to me like it had some teeth missing.

Got to visit the south tower in '99 at age five. It was my first trip to nyc and I remember clearly watching Manhattan Magic in the theater, going up onto the observation deck, and having dinner at Wild Blue in wtc1 with my parents. Its some of my most vivid childhood memories.

I have a friend who was a flight attendant at the time. She was on an overseas flight when her plane was ordered to land ASAP. She resigned from the airline shortly thereafter.

Incredible. We visited for the first time in 92, doing a 'Home Alone 2,' tour, then again in 94 after the intial attacks. We lost our uncle in the 9/11 attack, the memories and memorials will live on. 🔥🔥❤️

My sister used to work for a bank in Michigan, she was in New York for business through the bank. She wanted to do a little bit of sight seeing while she was there. After the business was over with and set up a tour of the world trade center on September 11th in the 9 o'clock hour! She ended up getting a flight out on September 10th. And fortunately, she didn't have to be there during that time. And it's very grateful that she was able to get an early flight the day before.

I have noticed that in pictures of the collapsed WTC, there was still portions of the outer columns and tridents that remained standing. I think it would’ve looked really nice and been powerful to have those remain around the perimeter of the memorial pools. Would’ve been a nice reminder and shown the scale of how big they really were. As well as the tridents being the most iconic architectural feature of the towers. I am aware of the tridents that are in the 9/11 Memorial museum, but those are completely stripped naked of their aluminum.

This is better produced than shows on History Channel

Great video, the loss of the trade centers and the loss of life is the most saddest and most impactful part of my life.

I was 5 years old when these beautiful structures hit by unspeakable evil. I remember seeing it on the news from my Sydney home and not being able to comprehend what I was seeing, but I remember seeing the shock my older brother and my mothers face. If I ever come to America I'll make sure to go to ground zero and pay my respects. 😢 ❤

I remember 9/11/01 very vividly. I was just one year out of high school and remember my Mom waking me up saying that there was a fire at the World Trade Center. I had class at 7am and needed to pick up my girlfriend at the time. By the time I arrived at her parent’s house much more info was available. And as I arrived her family had ceased their morning routine to watch the news. And it still haunts me watching both towers fall live. I wish younger people got to experience the world before 9/11.

Your videos are absolutely amazing. Every time a new one is released it makes my day 😊. Thank you for everything 🙏

I visited some time after but before reconstruction. I was taken by the scale but also the silence and respect shown to those who were lost. Great video.

My dad worked there in the late 80's and early 90's when we were living in Brooklyn. He still has has card. He had a job interview scheduled in the North Tower on 12th September 2001 when he was looking for a new job during that time... What difference a single day can make.

I lived in Pennsylvania at the time. I'll never forget watching minute by minute as the world changed forever. Sitting outside that day I could see the smoke on the horizon. The wind was from the east and the odor was unmistakable. I worked for a cemetery, one of my jobs was cleaning the oven. I will always recognize the scent of that ash. I could smell it in the air that day and it left a mark on my soul that I will never attempt to erase.

I visited the old WTC many times growing up in the Northern suburbs in the 70s and 80s and going back to visit in the 90s. The inside and outside observation decks, Windows on the World - which had multiple restaurants/bar areas - and the overall size of the plaza around the complex. I've been to the memorial pools and the museum and there's just an eerie feeling at least for me. For being a very busy area, the water and the trees bring a hush to the setting. Appropriate in my opinion. Haven't been in the new Freedom Tower. Just can't bring myself to go in it. 😢

12:09 VERY shocked to see that photo be used to show the portable stage as the photo was taken DURING the 9/11 attacks and is all the more graphic and disturbing the more you delve into the photo.

@13:44. "Home to one of the largest gold depositories in the entie world." I wonder where all the gold went? Hmmmmmm

My family visited relatives in New Jersey in 1975. We went to Manhattan and took a ferry tour around it. I was 9 years old, and i was fascinated by the towers and the other buildings. Coming from a small city in Minnesota, it was like another world. Such a tragedy what happened on 9/11

I clicked on the video as soon as i saw it!!!! It was really good!! I liked that you included radio row. It's really sad what happened but the world healed after that. We will never forget! Thank you for that video IT'S HISTORY!

i have learned more interesting information about things i thought i knew about and things ive never heard about than i could have ever expected from one youtube channel. excellent work. thank you for your work from all the way across the atlantic in Ireland ❤

I visited the outdoor observation area in 1977. The height of these buildings was incredible. I recall remarking to my friend "Hope there's never a fire here, pretty sure no fire truck ladder would reach!" I also took a photo at the entrance looking straight up. The facade just seemed to disappear into the sky.

After watching your video and having been subscribed for a while I love your work your amazing keep doing what you doing as a history buff always trying to learn I was a senior in high school when 9/11 happened I watched the second plane hit I watched The Towers fall and I promised myself I would never forget and you have given me another reason to never forget with your detail keep up the good work God bless

I always thought that those two buildings were the ugliest, unimaginative, pieces of crap that passed as buildings. But every time I see them in old movies or TV shows, I get a pang in my heart.

There is a 1/2 size replica, 52 story, WTC tower replica in Tulsa Oklahoma at the end of Boston Ave. It's called the BOK tower. It looks just like the twins, just smaller.

I was lucky enough to have visited the TTs the summer before 9/11. I distinctly remember the impressiveness of the entire center, but also thinking that the original terrorists had to be stupid to have planned on getting the north tower to fall onto the south. It was less than a month later that the world changed. Thank you for this wonderful video, It's History.

Radio Row was a dump but it did contain one historic building that no longer exists. That is the Hudson Terminal Building. It was a the site of a train station and an impressive mid rise office building. The Hudson Terminal almost deserves it's own video.

Thanksgiving 2001 I drove to New York from Chicago. I visited the site and just like you said I was struck by the immense size of the destruction, there had to be 5 to 10 stories of just crumpled steel. But the smell I'll never forget. Very powerful chemical burning smell and things were still on fire in late November. I also remember surveying the surrounding skyscrapers and the damages to them including the one building that has since been demolished.

For those who may not know.... There is a smaller sister to the Twin Towers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It took me years to be able to drive by it after the attack. I will NEVER forget all that was lost that day and grieve for those who lost their lives and the families/ friends who live on.

Well done documentary! Many thanks for sharing this!

I visited NYC in 1976, and some of the older radio-row businesses were still in existence and it was am amazing experience to go in those stores and see the incredible things they had in there. It is rare now to find such stores out here in California, but I do hope that NYC retains a few of the old electronics outlets because they were just so cool.

Each tower was built with around 100,00 tons of steel. Completed each weighed around 500,000 tons, in contrast the Sears Tower weighs a bit less than 300,000 tons. Despite being roughly the same size as either tower.

In 2000, I worked in the WTC. I was setting up servers for a now closed computer company. I'm from San Francisco, CA. We have big buildings here, but the WTC was HUGE !! I was amazed by the underground mall. Reminded me of Tokyo Train Station. The WTC was never the beautiful building, but she was well loved. It's like what has been said, "You never know what you have lost until it's gone."

This video about the World Trade Center is a poignant tribute to an architectural marvel and a solemn reminder of the events that forever changed our world. It beautifully captures the grandeur and significance of the Twin Towers, while also honoring the lives lost on that fateful day. The meticulous research and thoughtful storytelling make this video a must-watch for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of this iconic landmark. Thank you for honoring the memory of the World Trade Center and providing a platform for reflection and remembrance.

I used to work at 1 Centre street, which was across the street from City Hall. This was several blocks away from the Towers, but close enough to see the towers clearly from the rooftop. When the first plane hit the first Tower, nobody really knew what happened. The were news reports on television, and most people thought it was an explosion. Upon seeing the initial reports, I and several other co workers went up to the roof at 1 Centre St., which is one of the tallest buildings in the area. We noticed the large hole on the side of the tower which was billowing a massive amount of smoke and office paper. We were mostly thinking it was a bomb that caused it, as the last thing on our minds was that a plane hit the tower. As we watched and waited for reports, we actually witnessed the second plane hit the other tower. Once that happened, we quickly realized it was not a coincidence, and that there was obviously an attack being carried out. At this point, there were nearly 50 people on the roof, and you could hear people panicking and running back to go downstairs. We were all afraid that more planes were coming, and we still didn't know what was happening. I was an engineer working for a city agency, and we ended up staying for over a week in order to help with distribution of emergency equipment and food. Our building is also located directly next to 1 police plaza, making our location a central hub for all emergency operations. I transferred to the Bronx several years later. I am still an engineer with the same agency, but at a different location. I will never forget that day, the look of people's faces walking around aimlessly in the streets with white ash all over themselves, or the smell in the air. I uploaded this quick video describing my experience a few years ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pcuUmdOfp5esiWg.html

It's super important to keep the story of WTC alive as more and more time slips by. To this day there are still businesses that have refused to update their skyline logo design and keep the twin towers as part of them,. The towers live on in memory and in outline on old storefronts and dated delivery vans that still display them as well as several street art murals in the outer boroughs. The destruction of the WTC changed the world in several ways: it ushered in the 12 year long Bloomberg era of hyper gentrification which changed the essential character of NYC forever, the event started the two decade long terror wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it helped to create the idea of an ever expanding security state with cameras on every corner, office workers having to don lanyards, and the loss of any sense of privacy for the individual. But most of all, for me, they represent a more innocent time.

Great video! Fantastic city! Was lucky to visit twin tower memorial last year. Very humbling experience.

I was working in the control room of “Good Day New York” that day. I have storied to share. I heard things and saw things that will always be with me.

i was in kindergarten when this happened. I live about 15 miles from where the towers stood, and the new one. From a tall enough hill on the road/highway when my parents were driving at the time I recall seeing the towers in the distance along with the other surrounding buildings. I was in school when it happened, on the loudspeaker they announced that the tower was hit, being a young kid i didn't fully understand the magnitude of the event. My teacher was in shock, when they announced the second hit she had a slight panic, causing some of the other kids to react her same energy while others like myself just watched. Over the next few hours I recall them constantly announcing a child's name stating that their mother/father/guardian is here to pick them up. My parents were living in the country at the time for about 17 years speaking very weak english, over the years my older sister and I helped them learn just as we progressed. I recall there being a very small amount of students leaving school at the usual time, me being one of them. I suppose those parents haven't heard the news, I can't remember if mine have or not, but i do remember the confusion of school days the rest of that week

I took my son to the viewing deck at the top of WTC tower two back in the 1996. I still can't believe that both towers are now gone. What a horrific tragedy!

Thank you so much for posting this video! I Grew up in NYC: in the early 80s my Dad worked for DSAS (Division of Substance Abuse Services, NYCs version of Californias DARE program), which for awhile had offices on the 32nd and 71st floor of Tower 2. During that time i was taking the J/M train from my home in Bensonhurst Brooklyn to my School: Quite often, when school was let out and before my dad got off work, I would hop off at Fulton St., walk over to 2WTC, and hop on the Elevators and go hang out in my Dads office as he finished up for the day (there were no barriers or security checks before the first terrorist attacks happened in the garage). I keept myself busy doing my homework or exploring, then went home with him on the train. One time there was an Art Installation on the first floor elevator magazine area: seeing all sorts of artwork utilizing Fiber Optics was super neat to see, my favorite art installation there was the 2-story tall Ball-clock that had metal spheres rolling along tracks, hitting bells and making sounds as they rolled along inside, doing loops and jumps and every 15 minutes a grand display with multiple balls would occurr. I spent a good amount of time staring at that and enjoying the cacophony of sounds it made! I had the fortune of accompanying Dad to lunch on the few days where i was out of school early, eating with him at the Employee Restaurant that was located one story underneath the first skylobby, accessible by a set of escalators that was found at the far end of the main express elevators. During one of my explorations, I had found the two Maintenance elevators tucked down a maintenance corridor: the only ones that travelled the entire height of the building from the basement garages all the way to the top observation deck! Being in there with that huge impressive wall of buttons inside was quite awe inspiring that i got to actually See that! I did indeed ride it from top to bottom, Looking out into the hallways, then meekly returning to my Dads office in time to head home. Fond childhood memories for me! Am hoping that clock installation survived, i recently did see a similar one in the San Jose tech museum near the Fairmount hotel a few years back

there was an old New York which is slowly being forgotten but which was quite critical to later developments in NYC, NYS and the overall US. you covered that well.

i went to school about 2 miles north east of there. i was about a week into the new school year, my junior year of high school. i remember before the attacks….i actually wanted to skip school that day and go to the observation deck, because i always loved the scene in Home Alone 2. i remember being on Bowery and Canal St. my gut told me to go to school, so i decided to walk back to school. i was late…when i went inside….classmates were all horrified and asked me if i knew. the first plane had already hit. i remember hearing news radio in our class….the principal shut the school down….i…of course snuck out. but i lived in northern manhattan. all subways (we just call is the train) and buses were suspended. it’s about an 8 mile walk…which would take about 2 1/12 hours….but since the word was that they did not know if there were more planes, i had to zig zag the island of manhattan. there are a lot of major areas to avoid. took me 4 hours to get home. i was concerned for my brother because he went to the community college located a few blocks north of the WTC. i was happy that he had arrived home before me. anyway, it was just a surreal day. we went back to school a week later….unfortunately i smelled that burning pile for months….didn’t help that i would skip school to see the ruins of the WTC. my curiosity plagued me then. i’m guessing that’s where my autoimmune disease stems from today. i remember the smell….it’s engraved within me….i kid you not, there are some plastic fork and knife napkin sets….the napkin smells like that smell….it probably shouldn’t, but its that chemical smell i just remember. as a New Yorker…..this day hurt a lot. i visit the WTC a lot….to remember.

I visited New York in December 2000 and was lucky enough to have an anniversary meal in the windows of the world restaurant. Such a magical memory. Then I returned to New York the following Christmas and visited ground zero. It was one of the strangest feelings ever, even 3 months after the attacks, the city seemed so much quieter, and I was so shocked to walk around the entire area and see how much space those two beautiful towers took up. It still makes me teary today when I watch anything 9/11 related. Sending my love to all the victims families. ❤

I remember being in school when my dad came to pick me up early and being confused as to why until we got home and turned on the news. Something i will always remember

This was a very interesting and intriguing documentary. Thank you for presenting this Content and I couldn’t help but listen to the whole documentary. Good job.

Thank you for making this video. The terrible tragedy of 9/11 has overshadowed the titanic engineering achievement this complex was. It was astounding city within a city--truly beautiful. Thank you for bringing attention to that!

Don't forget building 7

Great job on this video and I learned some new things that I never heard before Thanks

My grandma took me to the towers in my youth. Around 87-89 if I remember correctly. Standing on that platform waiting for the express elevator I had no inclination of what would come. When those French brothers shot film during the attack, as body’s slammed in to that roof I was back there as a kid. I haven’t got to see the memorial but last time I was in manhattan I found the memorial for the firefighters near central station, I kneeled and tears fell from my eyes. I love that city and still find it hard to think too long of what happened to our firefighters friends and family. Thank you for covering this, could not have been easy.

I am a retired united states army soldier was visiting on 14street and 3rd Ave on Manhattan that day when the plane flew over crashing in to the north tower I was born and raised in New york I was visiting my family that week the horrific terrorist attack led the division I served with to deploy multiple times into combat losing friends in the towers and in the battlefield haunt me to this day thank you for the coverage of one of Americas powerful symbols will shall never forget very respectfully retired u army staff sergeant Ruiz

Solid show, great info. I was FDNY 1980-2003, and a Captain at the time of 9/11. My wife worked in both Towers during her career with the PA. Rockefeller needed a "Trade Center" to save lower Manhattan because that was were Chase HQ was. The first plan for the updated site had the Towers at 90 stories, but the PA insisted they be the tallest buildings. The excavation was so deep the PA had to build a "Concrete Bathtub", visible in your shots, to keep the Hudson River out. The site for Battery Park City was the excavated fill from the WTC site. Smart move! The Fatal Flaws of the Towers was the elimination of the super-safe Fire Tower Stairway, and the extreme lightweight floor construction system. Those cheap open-web steel floor trusses had NO FIRE RATING AT ALL, and failed in the intense heat of 9/11. There were no sprinklers, and fire protection was minimal unlike the Empire State Bldg. (What few know, was the 1975 serious fire in Tower 1 almost got away from the FDNY. You would have had a "Towering Inferno" back then, and possible collapse.) I was a FF in L-3 (83-90), and our rig is on display in the WTC museum, losing the most guys from any line company. I worked the 93 Bombing and spent 3 weeks at the pile until the line units were replaced with a dedicated recovery operation. That day I lost 105 friends. To learn more see my detailed work, MY TURN ON THE FIRELINES B&N

What a great job you did with this!

Thanks a lot for all those pictures and informations about WTC. I was 11 yo when it happened, and I started a few weeks ago to wonder how it was inside, how big the site itself was, the general design of the different floors etc... The pictures you showed were helpful ! Great job !

I was 8 blocks away at my then job on Sept 11, 2001. I heard the second plane hit and watched everything that happened thereafter. My coworkers and I walked to the Bronx where I was able to get the train home. I didn't return to work for a week but when I did, it became the first time I had to wear a face mask for an extended amount of time. It did very little as that burning smell you described and eventually the smell of rotting flesh was... Indescribable. I soon developed Bronchialpneumonia and quit my job. I saw humans choose to end their own lives by jumping rather than burn and/or choke to death. I encountered numerous individuals covered in dust and the blood of others. It was beyond anything any of us in NYC had every witnessed. What is now on the site is a beautiful tribute. It honors those we lost, not just on the day but still to this day. It also symbolizes healing and growth. Great video. Thank you for making it.

@13:50 And, what happened to all that gold after the attacks. See, this is the stuff you don't hear about and "the news" doesn't report on.

I think it’s absolutely insane that there was 110 story building in the middle of New York that didn’t have a sprinkler system. Like, what?

The smell of the smoke at ground zero is something which is tough to explain but also something I will never forget.

On a visit to NYC for 4th of July, we were doing the typical tourist observation view points, lines were long, he said: "What about the World Trade Centers?" I stupidly replied no, it's getting late. "They'll always be there, we can come back later." I truly thought they'd always be there....

One thing that striking me as odd about this post, is even though its was just posted today 5/27/2023, there are several statements in it that make me think this is a repost from 2018. While it is a decent summery report and worthy of a re-post, the out of date information should at least be noted in the description.

Much like others i was also a child during the attack. I remember this more vividly than anything in my childhood. We had just gotten to school and were playing on the playground my 3rd grade teacher at the time yelled for the kids to get inside like i have never heard a woman yell before. My grandmother picked me up in tears and i was so young I didn't understand. At 30 now it hits me different every year. When i go to NYC eventually this memorial and museum is a must stop on my list.

Great Narrater and Very informative video! Thanks!😊👍

I was scheduled to travel on flight 11 that day. A couple of weeks before, on a cross-country flight home, I was overwhelmed by a feeling that I shouldn't fly anymore. So intense, I couldn't ignore it. That decision ended my career, but saved my life, and left me with survivor's guilt that still troubles me after all these years. I can't bring myself to go anywhere near NYC where I might see lower Manhattan in person.

Those poor radio row businesses up against the Rockefellers and NYC . Losing the court case and then their property

My grandpa told me he was at Radio Row almost every weekend when he was a young man buying the latest Heathkit or whatever surplus / NOS electronic component he needed... Also, my neighbor's son, Ronald, survived the 2001 attacks. He worked in the South Tower and was one of the few to get out. We're from Canada

Very good video, Lots of usual facts and information

Buildings don’t fall on top of itself unless it’s implosion, that’s just common sense

The towers were not torn down,as you state in the video. They tragically collapsed on those poor people. There is a difference.

Captivating and excellent video

My first visit to the towers was in August, 1977. When I came to New York as an art strudent on a traveling scholarship from Portsmouth College of Art in England. I walked everywhere on Manhattan from my room at the YMCA near Central Park. After going up the Empire state building, the Chrysler building and the observation deck on top of Rockefeller plaza, I made my way downtown towards the financial district where the two slender stainless steel towers came in to view. What a magnificent sight ! Spent the entire afternoon in and arround the Trade Center complex, and about an hour on top of tower #2 the Top of the World. Fifty years on and I can still envisage the clean shiny lines of those Splendid buildings and the breath taking views from its summit.

I can’t believe I went to the towers just 4 days before 9/11. RIP to all the victims 😢

#IT'SHISTORY: 12:18/ Just a word of caution in this age of digital censorship. I hope you don't get red flagged for this, but I couldn't help but notice that if you zoom in around this timestamp, the still photo reveals a naked woman prancing around the outdoor fountain. Definitely performed an illegal activity in her time. Just thought you should know. The tip-off was how all the men in the photo were concentrated on one spot. I had to see for myself, too!😂

I remember my first trip to NYC in 1989 and standing in the plaza between the towers. I was in awe of how massive they were. I remember buying a pair of shoes in the mall underneath.

Very interesting and informative perspective

"1975 fire contained by the buildings fireproof steel". And we to believe the same steel in 2001 not fireproof ?

Still hurts for me to see them gone. No building will make the memories go away. It's a hole in NY and NJs hearts.

I lived in New Jersey at the time and remember that day perfectly. Being in high school at the time and close to the city was difficult as some students had family in the city. I visited a few times within the years following and it hit hard. The priest who married my parents and baptized me was the fire Chaplin at the time. He died giving last rights to a fallen fireman. I would love to return to see the new progress.

Ya know I havent watched this show since it was all WW1, but glad I tuned it. I like this content.

They were built with no fire sprinklers? Really. They had to be installed after an attack on the 11th floor.... thats suspicious.

Interesting how both towers, as well as building seven, fell straight down into their own footprints at near free fall speed, like in a building demolition. Building seven wasn’t even hit by a plane either.

Amazing History Videos Some that I never knew until now Very Interesting 🎆💥😎

Mr.Ryan this is a great video an a lot of your other videos a great you do a good job very informative an interesting 👍👍👍👍👍