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World Trade Center (1998) Memorial for Port Authority policemen who died on September 11, 2001, Riverside Church (2002)
The World Trade Center was always in the background, hovering over the And then one day in 2001 it wasn’t there. The city was in shock for several
island, a book end to Empire State. Unlike Empire State, I never liked the WTC. years—you can see it in the faces of the Port Authority officers here at the
Nor did I dislike it. It was just there, a place where 50,000 New Yorkers went to memorial at Riverside Church for their 37 martyred colleagues, some of the
work everyday, a fact of New York life. 403 emergency workers who perished when the Towers came down. A lot
of people thought that New York would never recover. But of course it did.
Because New York is New York.
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