World Trade Center Observation Deck - Lost Footage - May 2001

In May 2001, I visited the World Trade Center observation deck. During that time, I also captured a video showcasing a day in the life of New York City. However, just a few months later, on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I found myself in New York City again-this time experiencing the most shocking day of my life.

[@terrrell7798]

I grew up with the Twin Towers. I went to the South Towers Observation Deck back in 1994, the year after the 93 bombing. Twin Towers was my favorite spot here in NYC. I miss them..

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Good footage. I went to the observation level and on the roof in summer 1987. I was working in upstate New York and went with friends on my day off. Alas I didn't take my camera that day and a friend got shots of me on the roof, but we lost touch (he's from the US, I'm from the UK). I did get photos of the WTC towers from street level, on another day that summer, and from the top of 'the Big E' (ESB)
It was a beautiful summer's day and very peaceful up there. I remember seeing aircraft in the distance at lower altitudes than us, as they prepared to land.
I was fascinated by these buildings, and the ESB, since childhood. The twin towers from seeing the movies 'The Towering Inferno' 1974, loosely based on them, and the first King Kong remake in 1976 where Kong stands on top of them, not on the ESB as in the original version.
Back then, and up to 2001, NYC was dominated by the twin towers in lower Manhattan, and by the ESB in central Manhattan. I went back to NYC in 2022 (and again this year), first time since 1992. Apart from the new Freedom tower, there are so many ugly towers all over, a number of them taller than the ESB. In my view, nothing in the city should be allowed to be built taller than these two famous buildings.
But London is an even worse visual disaster for random, ugly towers.
Both city skylines ruined imo.
Anyway thanks again for this footage. Memories of happier, innocent times.

[@marcisawesome0469]

The world will never be the same after 9/11 and COVID-19.

[@Darkvoid55]

Pre-9/11 videos were like a lost world

[@ToastedBweb]

thanks for posting this.

[@ibsonsantos8739]

Raro registro parabéns

[@adamwadecaw122]

Definitely this other world after 911

[@anunya6637]

Lost footage?

[@heinzbreuer2674]

I was Januar 1993 auf den World tread Center und meine große Liebe gefunden bis heute ❤
Mary ich liebe dich ❤❤.........god save.the Dead and Love human ❤❤..See you in Heaven ❤.

[@davidtukesbrey1589]

NY used to be cool. Now it's an absolute dumpster fire.

[@StevenRobertsShow]

So sad. They ruined our country.

[@CombatWychi]

Are you sure about that? because I've heard plenty of stories of NYC being the absolute worst during the '70s 😅

[@anthonywhite8706]

❤🙏🏾

[@Janique2100]

danke für den einblick