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The Lens: Capturing Life and Events at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is a photography series devoted to documenting moments big and small that unfold at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
In the uncertain hours immediately following the September 11 attacks, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration halted all commercial and general aviation air traffic, clearing the airspace of an estimated 4,500 planes.
After watching the Twin Towers collapse on television from his home on Long Island, retired firefighter Bob Beckwith made plans to help with the search efforts.
Every day, a single, white rose rose is placed on the 9/11 Memorial pools at the names of the victims whose birthdays would have been celebrated on that day.
For more than a decade, StoryCorps and the 9/11 Memorial Museum have worked together on the September 11th Initiative, which aims to record one oral history to honor each life lost in the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and Feb. 26, 1993.
A tour group gathers near the Survivor Tree at the 9/11 Memorial at dusk. The Callery pear tree became known as the “Survivor Tree” after living through the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks despite being burned and broken.
Architects shape more than skylines. They transform neighborhoods, cities and societies. For Handel Architects, the firm that designed the 9/11 Memorial, they also helped rebuild a city and heal a nation after 9/11.
The 24th anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center was commemorated with solemn ceremony on the 9/11 Memorial plaza yesterday. The bombing in the WTC parking garage killed six people and injured more than 1,000 people on February 26, 1993.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will hold a ceremony today to honor the six people who were killed in the first attack at the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.
Two years after terrorists detonated a van loaded with explosives in the parking garage of the World Trade Center killing six and injuring more than 1,000 innocent people, a memorial fountain, built directly above the blast site, was dedicated and opened to the public.
