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Photo: Najilah Feanny/Corbis FIVE YEARS LATER
- What If 9/11 Never Happened?
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As a way of marking the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we’ve attempted to answer this question. New York would, no doubt, be a different place if 9/11 hadn’t happened. But would it be better? I’m not so sure.
- The Survivors’ Circle
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Some 18,000 people showed up to work at the towers on September 11, 2001; almost 3,000 died. Eight who were there meet and compare lives.
- Out of the Ashes
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Nine artifacts —a wallet, an ID card, a jet fuselage, among them—from the ruins of the World Trade Center.
THREE YEARS LATER
- Is 9/11 Making Us Sick?
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Three years after the World Trade Center attacks, thousands of cops, firefighters, and people who worked and lived near ground zero are sick with respiratory problems. Some have cancer. Is 9/11 to blame? And how safe are the rest of us?
TWO YEARS LATER
- September 11 Miracle Survivors
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In Stairwell B of the North Tower, 16 people lived amid the avalanche of concrete and steel. Two years later, why don't they feel lucky?
- How 9/11 Changed Us
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Some decided to have children. Others started charities, or joined the Army or the CIA. And those who lost family, friends or co-workers are living with an emptiness that may never be filled in. New Yorkers' stories, in their own words.
Photo Galleries
- Twin Towers: 1973-2001
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The history of the World Trade Center in photos.
- Days of Terror
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Twenty one images we couldn't escape.
- Aftershocks: NYC Since 9/11
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Portraits of grief, courage, and resilience.
- A New WTC: Your Designs
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New York Magazine readers share their visions.
- September 11, 2002
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Anniversary tributes at ground ero and elsewhere.
ONE YEAR LATER
- One Year Later
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How do you remember that day? New York Magazine looks back.
- The Widows: 4 Stories of Grief & Rebuilding
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The one-year mark brings fresh grief — and a realization that they've somehow figured out how to carry on.
- The Site: 7 Architects Offer Bold Visions
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What do you think about the designs from these eminent architects?
- The Media: Did Everything Really Change?
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For people, it did. For others, no. Just ask the agents and distributors and other media types who determine the relative value of 9/11 product.
- Our 9/11 Survey
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How do you remember that day? More than 1500 New York Magazine readers told us.
- The Mayor: Why Rudy Giuliani Can't Let Go
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He's "the hottest political property" in the country. The question isn't whether he'll run again — but how far he can go.
- The Awful Numbers
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Death, destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies, and other September 11 statistics.
- The Families: Showdown at Ground Zero
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Their moral authority and media sophistication — not to speak of their anger — have made them crucial players in the future of downtown.
- Events and Tributes
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A guide to official ceremonies, charity events, and concerts to commemorate September 11.
- Top 5 Books
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Selected from the remarkable number of 9/11-related books timed to the anniversary.
July 2002
- Shrinking Feeling
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On couches across town, patients are worried about the 9/11 anniversary — and to make matters worse, here comes August.
- Social Anxiety
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Across the city, publicists and party promoters are nervously debating how to plan non-9/11 events around September 11.
- Big Zero
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The proposals for the Twin Towers site dishonor the dead — and the living.
- Try to Remember
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How to honor the dead at ground zero? Taking a stand for greatness rather than size, the current mayor makes more sense than his predecessor.
June 2002
- Broadway Bomb
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As the immediacy of 9/11 fades, New Yorkers learn to live with terror.
- Homeland Security
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All visitors must be announced — not to mention interrogated and frisked. New York's doormen are being drafted for the war on terror.
March 2002: Six Months Later
- The Pain of Heroes
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The FDNY's struggles with budget cuts, union leaders, intrusive tourists, and health and emotional problems.
- The Long Goodbye
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15 New Yorkers — daughters, doctors, widows, friends — talk about their changed lives.
- The City's Psychic Wound
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If you're feeling worse now than you did last fall, you're not alone
- Horror Shows
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How the cuture industry is grappling with September 11.
- Battery Park City: Out of the Ashes
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Despite deep rent discounts and government grants drawing a new generation of tenants, there are still almost 2,000 apartments available.
- Tribeca: The View from Down There
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Downtown life in the glamorous nexus of art and commerce is slowly returning to normal — and so are loft prices.
- The Odious Meter
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What's your threshold for tolerance? These four responses to the tragedy test it. See what you think.
February 2002
- Bill Rudin: City Father's Son
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After Lew Rudin's death, Bill is left to run the family empire with his uncle Jack and to help rebuild New York again.
- The Public Health
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As scores of scientists conduct post-9/11 studies, the city is becoming one big laboratory.
January 2002
- Don't Give Up
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Is it really necessary to abandon the vices that have helped you get through these hard times? Probably.
- Calling All Psychics
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Federal officials are calling upon them again to help identify perpetrators of the attacks and to pinpoint future terrorist targets.
December 2001
- Howard Lutnick's Second Life
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Cantor Fitzgerald's notoriously hard-edged CEO promised to take care of the families of his 657 dead employees. Did he?
- O'Neill versus Osama
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When the FBI's top expert on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, died it became clear: His own life contained as many mysteries as his enemy's.
- Fighting Words
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Our aggressive need to stay informed has expanded our war vocabulary rapidly.
- Justice Obstructed
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Crime's up in the wake of September 11 — but the courts have slowed way down.
November 2001
- Mychal Judge: The Fireman's Friar
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The death of beloved New York Fire Department chaplain was not as extraordinary as his colorful and iconoclastic life.
- Kofi Annan
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The U.N. Secretary General's job is the only that may be tougher than the mayor's.
- Gathering to Remember
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Whatever is built to replace the World Trade Centers should aim to capture the violence and loss of that day.
- Stopping Spin Laden
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Can a Madison Avenue advertising vet win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world?
- The Power of Partnership
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The New York City Partnership, an alliance of A-list business leaders, is coming together to lead the counterattack.
- Will it Play in Kabul
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Hollywood entering the fray? Will we soon have Musharraf in the Middle? What Afghan Women Want?
- Bar None
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Could the velvet rope finally be coming down?
- Fixing the Whole
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Honoring the Trade Center dead, while thinking boldly about making all of downtown a newly vibrant place for the living.
- A Bend in His Theory
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Nobel Prize winning author V. S. Naipaul talks to the Manhattan Institute.
- Who's Checking Your Bags?
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Just how easily could explosives end up onboard?
October 2001
- Richard Sheirer: Man Behind the Mayor
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How the director of the Office of Emergency Management became the unsung hero of the hot zone.
- The Kids They Left Behind
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The city has mourned the victims of the attack — but there are as many as 10,000 other victims who, now and for years to come, will need attention: their children.
- Exit Strategies
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Buying a parachute or a gas mask might seem paranoid — but some folks aren't taking any chances.
- Should We Stay or Go?
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Urban warriors thought they'd seen it all. But will gas masks and barricades finally make us surrender?
- The Odeon Rebounds
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Lynn Wagenknecht, owner of the Odeon, talks about the Tribeca institution regaining its footing.
- 17 Ways to Help NYC
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Three-star rations, go dancing, stay home for the holidays...
- Facing Kids' Fears
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We want to make them feel safe — but we also want to tell them the truth.
- Post-Crash Depression: The Crash After the Crash
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Still painfully present in as the smoke that rises from ground zero. Is this a stage? Or our new reality?
- Finding Our Religion: Deliver us from Evil
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Many New Yorkers are asking themselves — some for the first time — what they really believe.
- A Baby Boomlet
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Since September 11, biological clocks all over town seem to be speeding up. Are we on the verge of a baby boomlet?
- Volunteers Suffering for the Cause
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The lucky ones end up shaving lard off oblong hunks of raw beef with a blade as blunt as a butter knife.
- Hearts on Fire
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Everyone wants to land the most desirable sex symbol: firemen.
- Kitsch Appeal: The Business of Memorializing
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Profiting from World Trade Center memorabilia.
- Our New War Culture
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The attack on the Twin Towers set the world in chaotic motion. Below, a target assessment of the new cultural map.
- Fit for Duty
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Getting in shape provides stress relief in the same way buying a gas mask might.
- Carpool Mates
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Mass transit or make a new friend?
- Nothing to Smile About
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Dentists are being asked to pull the records of patients, to help identify remains.
- Truths about New York
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What kind of rubble did the planes create when they pierced New Yorkers' collective consciousness?
- Ashleigh Banfield
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As the Twin Towers collapsed, she choked on dust, helped a New York cop to safety, and lived to tell the tale during a string of eighteen-hour days.
- Anxiety in the Empire State Building
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Many employees are questioning whether to spend five days a week in a prime terrorist target.
- The End of the Post?
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Conditions in media in New York have obviously changed since September 11 — and the biggest story going doesn't fit the Post's manpower resources or its sensibility.
- The Air Down There
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September 11th brought an additional fear to residents living below Canal Street—it's the air they breathe.
- Will Tribeca Recover? Down the Frozen Zone
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Even in the seventies, TriBeCa living was never this tough.
- Her War at Home
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After seeing the Taliban up close, a young Afghan American looks to the future with fear — and hope.
- What Troubles Our Sleep
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In our dreams the event is still happening — and it's possible that it will always be happening.
- Preparing for the Unthinkable
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Would hospitals be able to respond to a bioterrorist attack?
- Doctor's Dilemnas
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Panicked patients invaded virtually every doctor's office in Manhattan. Are Cipro prescriptions the right way to treat them?
- A Cure for What Doesn't Ail You?
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It seems that terrorism has accomplished what years of therapy and mounting doctors' bills could not: a cure.
- News Blitz
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The media are too self-obsessed? Well, then how are we supposed to cover a story where we're the targets?
- Our Man in Islamabad
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Harboring hostile feelings toward America?
- Feeling his Pain
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Being on the sidelines has become perhaps the toughest challenge of Clinton's career?
- Conspicuous Camouflage
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Now that Humvees tear past Pastis, everyone who indulged in Dior camo couture is wondering: Is it still all right to wear this stuff?
- The Circles of Loss
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The World Trade Center tragedy united the city, but it has divided us, too — into those who've lost family and friends, and those who only watched.
- The Talking Cure
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Loss, grief, anger, war, God, America the beautiful, and good old Downtown weirdness by the light of a million candles.
- Firefighters: Braving the Heat
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How they manage to carry on even after losing their co-workers, family, and friends.
- Doctor Love
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Just when your grandmother finally stopped nagging you to find a nice doctor, M.D.'s are suddenly hot again.
- Gag Humor
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What sort of person would find it funny to fake an anthrax attack?
- Do Restaurants Need Rescue?
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Despite Giuliani's encouragement, New Yorkers still aren't going out to eat.
- Pain Management
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Conference rooms have been turned into makeshift therapists' offices, with heavy drapes covering the glass walls and guys going in alone or in groups of two or three.
September 2001
- Escape from Ground Zero
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Alison Summer's ground zero diary.
- The Longest Week
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New Yorkers reflect on The Day
- A Changed City
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The land of the living has turned tearful, reverent, apocalyptic, and tentatively jocular.
- A Priest and a Prayer
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The families of the missing cops look for solace in their silence.
- Cantor Fitzgerald's Pain
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The scene in the room of the Hotel Pierre was an outpouring of grief for the families of missing Cantor Fitzgerald employees.
- The Waking Nightmare
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When the city you love and live in becomes a war zone, suddenly nothing seems the same.
- Architecture: Before and After the Towers
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It is an unfathomable gathering of energy, when 8 million people with 8 million things on their minds suddenly think only one thing.
- A Son, A Sibling, A Fiancee
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One man's account of personal loss from the devastion on 9/11.
- Passing the Buck
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When it comes to airport security, everyone's looking for someone to blame.
- Permanent Losses
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Stock market losses now seem like nothing compared to what's now missing from lower Manhattan.
- Rudy Rules
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Filling in for Bush, Giuliani is Consoler-in-Chief for New Yorkers and Americans everywhere.
- Freedom Lost
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In the wake of tragedy, freedom suddenly seems less important to New Yorkers; the focus turns to authority.
- Patriot Parties
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Celebrating anything is a recipe for guilt. And publicistsand party-planners feel as guilty as anyone.
- Loose Lips? Not Now
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This tragedy has made professional gossips question the relevance of what they do.
- The Sad Sell
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Cosmetic companies consider the marketing of popular products whose names suddenly have uncomfortable new meanings.
- The Curtains Fall
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Empty seats have left Broadway shows without a home.
- Fashion Starts Over
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Where does fashion fit during a time of tragedy?
- For American Jews, the Middle East War Comes Home
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How should Jews respond to the layers of issues that affect them as a community without separating themselves from the rest of America?
- Mood on the Street
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The drive to make money is gone from Wall Street these days.
- What We Mean by 'War'
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It's the idea that "everything has changed." Now we are different people, and different, harsher, things are required of us.
- Choosing Our Enemy
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How far will the U.S. go in its campaign against terrorism?
- Enemies in the Senate
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Helping New York is important for the U.S., but Senators Gramm and Nickles needed extra convincing.
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