New Yorker Recounts 9/11 Attack, Aftermath

Published on September 11, 2024

NEW YORK—Laura Rosen, an artist, photographer, and author with a lifelong interest in New York City’s buildings, bridges, tunnels, and landmarks, and the infinite variety of its architecture, witnessed firsthand the most devastating event ever to befall the Manhattan skyline on Sept. 11, 2001. For Rosen, as for so many others, it started like an ordinary late summer day, with no hint of anything the least bit unusual. On that day 23 years ago, Rosen made her usual morning commute by subway from Brooklyn Heights to Lower Manhattan, where she worked as head of the photo and drawing archive for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) at 2 Broadway....

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