Reports From Ground Zero:

Day 1

Day 2

Videos:

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• The Attack:

  • Tower 1, roughly two minutes after being struck. (15MB)

  • Tower 1 video with audio from a NYC news station as the news reports started coming in. (2MB)

  • Shots of Tower 1, Federal Plaza, and Broadway; note that everyone on the streets below are still quite calm. As soon as the second tower was struck, people immediately started scattering. The news report in this clip also contains one of the most insipid comments ever made by a news reporter during a national disaster. (Listen for the female reporter's comment about injuries at the scene.) (13MB)

  • Tower 2 fireball: Select high-resolution version (67MB) (update 2009-05-02: this video has been re-uploaded, and is now available in its entirety) or smaller version (13MB). There is also a shorter version with a higher frame rate in both a high-resolution version (55MB) (update 2009-05-02: this video has been re-uploaded, and is now available in its entirety) and a smaller version (31MB).
    Note: The reporters' voices that you hear in the background are coming from a television right next to the camera. Reports started arriving almost immediately after the first strike.

• Streets of Tribeca, the Evening After the Attack:

  • The view from our apartment building. Recommend downloading the smaller version (4MB) before deciding if you want the high-resolution version (46MB).

  • View down West Broadway from Worth Street. (6.25MB)

  • View down Hudson Street from Worth Street. (4MB)

  • Intersection of West Broadway and Franklin Street. (8MB)

  • Entrance to the Holland Tunnel. (3.6MB)

• The Next Day:
  • Same view as the Tower Fireball videos, but with a different skyline. (9MB)

  • Shot of the smoke rising from the WTC site, and a mostly deserted Federal Plaza. (14MB)

  • The war zone at Chambers Street and West Broadway. (8MB) Perhaps difficult to tell in the video, but the sidewalks are covered in ash, a couple of inches deep in places.

  • More scenes of the National Guard Line at Chambers Street and West Broadway. (5MB)

  • Smoke rising from Ground Zero. (3MB) Scenes shot at Chambers Street and West Broadway. Not terribly interesting. :-)

  • Heavy equipment moving into the area. (1.3MB) The earth movers in the scene are traveling east on Chambers Street, crossing West Broadway.

  • Vehicle graveyard at West Broadway and Duane Street. (20MB) Rescue personnel moved these vehicles here from the site of the collapse.

  • Soot covers the sidewalks all the way back to West Broadway and Reade. (2.6MB)

  • Many of the local residents were wearing face masks. (15MB)

  • Scenes of firefighting on West Broadway from Duane Street. (4MB) You can see Building 6 in the background.

  • The National Guard line at Chambers Street, and scenes of firefighting on West Broadway. (2.5MB) You can see Building 6 in the background.

  • View of Building 7, as seen from the National Guard line at West Broadway and Chambers Street. (10MB) As the camera zooms in, you can see the side of the building is lying at an angle.

  • Looking down Greenwich from the National Guard line at Chambers Street. (7MB) Trucks filled with debris are being hosed down prior to leaving the area.

  • View of Building 7 area, as seen from the National Guard line at Greenwich Street and Chambers Street. The camera was running low on batteries at this point, so the scenes are very short, but the damage is quite evident. (18MB)

• Friday, 14 September (Day 4):
  • View of Building 6 from West Broadway and Reade Street. (7.4MB)

  • View of Building 7 from Greenwich Street and Duane Street. (36MB)

  • Scenes of crushed vehicles on Hudson Street. (36MB) Rescue personnel moved these vehicles to Hudson Street from the site of the collapse.