The Day After 9/11
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2019
- This video includes footage from two days, 9/12 and 9/13.
After evacuating my dorm on Broome Street, I stayed with friends at another NYU building for two nights. On Thursday 9/13, I was allowed go back to my dorm, which was south of Houston St. and the police blockade.
I shot this on MiniDV with a Sony vx1000. Up-Res'd to HD in Adobe Premiere.
this feels like a documentary with no speaker
Better than a voiceover unless specifics need to be said
I’m 14 and this is deep
@@KTTstudios what?
@@KTTstudios Reddit incel moment
@@brushmanman6498 wholesome 100 chungus Keanu reeves
TH-cam is the closest thing we have to a time machine
You my friend are right . I never though about that . My god wow
Books.
We got the simpsons
ViralKidTJ Simpson’s predicts things
True
The free movies with the free soda and popcorn was actually pretty heartwarming
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@@hellothere-ig6jgjust fucking speak normally
@@hellothere-ig6jg What does W mean? Thanks everyone who answered!
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@@louisehelgesson5471 Win/Winner, I think
I actually was passing by that movie theater on 9/12. It was such a meaningful gesture by the theater. There were staff outside waving people with smiles on their faces. "Free Movies! Free Popcorn!" 9/11 was such a horrible day and the theater provided just a little bit of a distraction and comfort... even if it was only a couple of hours. I'm sure it helped a lot of people. If anyone that was working there at the time sees this, I want to say how thankful was (and still am) for your selflessness. I'm sure working that day was tough.
BTW, I watched "The Fast and the Furious" and "L.I.E." with Paul Dano and Brian Cox. The barricades that you saw on 14th street next to Union Square were to prevent people from going into the area unless you lived south of 14th (which I was at the time.) Cops were checking IDs.
did you see the towers fall? sorry if that question is in bad taste i wasn’t alive on 9/11 so I’m curious what it was like
@@Versagenn I was working at 40th and Broadway and lived in the East Village. My office building and bosses told everyone to stay in place. And I told my roommate (who was also my co-worker and in panic mode) that we needed to leave. We walked East out of view of the towers. I also wanted to avoid Times Square (because there was a report on the radio that there was a car bomb at the state department, which was false) and the Empire State Building. My main focus was getting her home safe. And we heard people saying that one of the towers fell. And I assumed it was a rumor and said "that's impossible." I honestly thought they were wrong. There was no way they would just collapse. But, by the time I got to my apartment and turned on the TV, I found out that both of them had fallen.
@@DontWalkRUN that sounds horrifying. i’m glad you and your coworker made it out safe though. noticed you have 700k subscribers too so good luck on your youtube career 🙂
@@Versagenn Thank you.
I lived at 12th Street on 6th Avenue. Living in the lock down area was pretty eerie. There was no traffic below 14th Street. Thanks for posting video of the park. It turned into an even bigger memorial as days went on.
Today is the first time I've ever watched footage from that day. I saw way too much in person to ever watch it on TV. Every year I avoid TV around this time. But this year I finally watched. And the emotions are still as horrible as that day. Thank you for video of my neighborhood. Somehow it helped to see my home and what it felt like the days and weeks and months after. Be kind everyone.
Imagine being a tourist from a foreign country and witnessing the attack
Knightmare they would have to stay in New York bc the airport is going be shut down for a month to get better security and hire a lot of police
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Imagine being the guy who got fired from the WTC before the attack or took the day off or even ran late?
Scott Young their heart would’ve skipped 100 beats til death so I guess they’d die either way
@@scottyoung4524 I believe something similar to that happened to seth macfarlane ( creator of family guy) when he was planned to be on one of the planes that hit the world trade center but he had a hangover and overslept, he woke up to see the news that the plane he was supposed to be on had crashed, it really makes those episodes where Brian stopping 9/11 alot sadder
imagine witnessing the attack period.
It’s like everyone is trying to comprehend on what happened the day before
@10K Subscribers For No Reason Challenge you mean you too have common sense?
I remember everyone on the news was explaining how they heard multiple explosions and analysts explaining that collapsing didn't make any sense.
Nowadays that's considered a "conspiracy theory"... But I remember it very well as it happened. Such a horrible event.
It's 2020, I think we still are...
More than like
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i had a 4th grade teacher who told us a story about his friend who used to work in the north tower of the twin towers. he said his friend's family would always want him to stay home and eat breakfast with them, but he would always say no and prioritize his work. one day, he decided to stay and eat with them, and that day was 9/11/01. when he was on his way to work, there was a mob of people running in the other direction and he soon found out what had happened. the craziest part of it is that he worked on floor 94, which flight 11 directly flew into. the fact that he chose that day to stay with his family is beyond a miracle.
thats crazy
Should I leave it at 94 likes idk buts that is what i call a miracle my friend
This is like the 1000th story that someone on YT wrote about. As if everyone on earth knew a guy that miraculously avoided death on 9/11 because they overslept or suddenly decided they love their family.
There were only a few thousand people working in the towers, and the world is not that small!
@@vibranium-riprich314that did happen though. Seth McFarlane got drunk and missed a meeting on the WTC.
@@vibranium-riprich314 You know multiple people can know the same person right?
If you knew someone killed that day,but they never recovered a body. Can you imagine not knowing where your loved one was and what happened to them.
They're still finding people to this day. When the towers came down, if you were inside, you'd be crushed by an uncountable amount of tons of rubble. At that point, your body is basically atomized. Just turned to dust and occasional bits. And combining that with the fires. The same happens in wars, not every body is identifiable. Just bits and chunks. I'm not sure how long it'll go on for, but it's no question that people who were there are still lost.
They were vaporized. Thats what happened.
@@garfoonga1yeah heartbreaking just memories
That was the thing rescuers couldn’t understand either
“there’s 1,000s of people in those towers, where are they?”-Scott Strauss NYPD ESU.
They’ve found DNA of some of the missing in the lungs of those who’ve died from 9/11 cancer. Horrifying to think that they were atomized to the point people were breathing in their bodies.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606wow can you give me a link to where you got that info? This sounds so horrible and I’ve never heard of it.
"This was the loudest silence anyone ever heard."
9/11 was truly sad and we won’t forget this moment of history. I didn’t see this because I wasn’t born yet, but my parents saw it on the news.
@@oof6471 Yeah same, my dad told me about 9/11 how he was at work and just turned on the radio to hear the tragic news. It’s really crazy.
I like how this reply section is slowly turning into a card game of which disaster was actually worse.
@@N-GinAndTonicTM both tragedies were terrible, but I don’t think it can really be argued that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t the worse of the two. An atomic bomb is devastating, imagine your atoms being pulverized and you being completely wiped from existence. No body to bury, no even recognition that you’re dying, just the transition between hearing the bomb drop and becoming a shadow on a wall.
@@coalkingryan881 Or even worse, being close enough to be slowly killed from the radiation, without the mercy of the instant pulverization...
The sign that said “Have the heart to forgive” with the word “never” overwriting “forgive” was such a powerful way of showing the conflicting views on that day.
That’s what fear does to you unfortunately
Straight out of a fucking movie!
And set the stage for all the hate towards Americans who practiced Muslim. I remember how bad that was for a few years
And that’s how the world works. Revenge begets revenge-almost all violence in the world is, in some way or another, a reaction to earlier violence. Years after 9/11, indoctrinated youths in the Middle East or on some radical-Islamist forum will see the atrocities committed by U.S. drone strikes indirectly as a result of 9/11, and they will not be able to forgive the far greater number of civilians killed in those attacks.
Yes, some people are able to break free from their communities’ cycle of violence and vengeance. But they are the few exceptions, unfortunately, to a rule dictated by human nature.
@CoCo Exception to the rule, like I said. Not every case has to fit the rule for it to be the rule. Also, keep in mind that: (1) the mainstream view of the bombings has unofficially deemed that they were justified retribution that cancels out Japan's initial aggression (whether this view is correct or not is separate question); and (2) Japan as of 2021 only has a "second-class" "army" in that its military forces are not allowed to conduct military activities outside of pure self-defense; and (3) even if Japan had a normal military, it is still a sovereign, civilized nation-state, and nation-states/governments are, as a rule, (relatively) less rogue players than terror organizations, rebel movements, etc. -- Japan understands the reality that it would not be a good ending for them even if they wanted vengeance and decided to act on it. None of these things applies to al-Qaeda or I.S.I.S.: they don't act in accordance to mainstream views, non-aggression treaties, or rational considerations.
I wasn't alive during 9/11, but videos like these.. just make me so uneasy. The silence. You can tell something's wrong. The only way to describe this video is uncomfortably heavy.
It was like that everywhere. We watched a mass tragedy live on TV but at the time nobody was really sure what it meant
Yup. I remember the principal wheeled a TV into our classroom in the 6th grade and switched it to the news. It was maybe 10 or 11 in the morning. They let us spend the rest of the day in recess iirc, us and all the other grades, but I remember only the grade 6 kids really knew what happened cause it was K-6. Was kind of surreal watching all the other kids playing, while we just walked around the yard going "WTF?".
@@jodomo4279 Witnessing that in 6th grade is crazy. I couldn't even imagine a bunch of middle schoolers just witnessing a live tragedy.
@@serialcoffeedrinker We're not even Americans, we're Canadian. A few of us had relatives who lived and worked in Manhatten. I met kids in highschool whose close relatives were there when it happened.
Pretty crazy how connected NYC was to the rest of the world back then. It still is, really. That's probably why we all felt so strongly about it.
@@serialcoffeedrinker i was in the 7th grade myself at the time and the teachers were running around frightened and wheeled in a big old tv cart. the kids didnt really understand what was going on but i think the adults being upset was what scared us. i think i got in trouble for nervous laughter but it was so traumatic that i wasnt actually laughing AT it.
Aside from 9/11 itself, the day that stands out most vividly in my memory is that Friday evening. If I recall correctly, just a couple of days prior, there had been a nationwide candlelight vigil. On that particular Friday evening, there was an attempt to do it again.
During that time, I was a high school student, and that night, about five of my friends and I walked around our neighborhood. There was an overwhelming sense of community and support. People we had never met or spoken to in our neighborhood were sitting on their front porches, socializing and greeting anyone who walked by and waving their American flags in solidarity.
Others had also attached American flags to their cars and were just driving around honking their horns.
It was a scene unlike any I had ever witnessed before or since.
Yup. Last time America was actually together and it didn't matter or what political side you were on. Whether you were Democrat or Republican everyone was together on the day after 9/11.
Do I think the U S needs another 9/11 to be together? Unfortunately yes, bc we are so divided. Or something similar like WW3. The pandemic was an attempt to get everyone together, but all it did was divide us. Anti-mask versus masked people.
Unless you had any traits of being middle eastern. Then you were being berated, spat on and beat up.
@@Carlos-xz3viahh yes leave it to someone in the comments of a 9/11 video to somehow make arabs out to be the victims of that day.
@@TinkerTailorSailorTy "Arabs" didn't commit those acts, scumbag terrorists did, and the harassment and mistreatment of innocent, hard working middle eastern Americans was strong and unwarranted.
gosh i can't imagine. it would be too scary to go outside, I bet.
Everything looks normal but somehow you can feel that something is not right.
Kinda felt like the day after Trump was elected
@@kadija8251 kinda felt like the way you wont shut the fuck up about politics
Mr Fuckin BEAN not even really a political statement. The vibes in NYC the day after trump got elected were objectively very similar to this video. Obviously the scale was smaller but Kadija is right.
I liked this twice then it showed 2 likes so I’m confused and creeped out
@@TheSpillerr probably cause new york is democrat
The whole city just looks... tired. Like all anyone wants to do is sleep and forget about what happened.
ironic because nyc is called "the city that never sleeps"
they look more awake than in Corona times.
@@LivenSixtyFive I WANT TO WAKE UPPP IN A CITY THAT NEVER SLEEEPPPPPSSSSSS
That how Michigan looks everyday
@Cryer24597 don’t care 👍 statue of limitations on that one by now 😂
I was in my 20's when 9/11 happened. I saw the Twin Towers fall to the ground on 6th Avenue. Traumatized for life. Never forget.
Holy cow- I hope you are doing ok. Must have been a terrifying experience for you. G-d bless you 💖
@@therisenatlasdont censor god’s name
@@euniceannevargasmymomsacco6314 I a Jewish, it is forbidden to write G-ds name. 😊
@@therisenatlasBut as a Jew, wouldn’t you believe that God is just an English word and that his true name is represented by the Tetragrammaton?
@@landrypierce9942 No, we call him G-d. The Hebrew word for it is Hashem, but we don’t need to worry about that. It is totally fine for us to say that. I’m not very religious. I appreciate the question though! 😊
The free movie, soda, and popcorn post really hit me. There was lots of pain. I can feel it even today. 😢
It’s crazy to think people were literally still alive and trapped when this was filmed.
Forgive me if I’m uninformed but, how were people trapped after the towers had collapsed?
@@thomasglass7223 in the underground subways, in the debree, in elevators. They only pulled a couple people out alive from the collapsed buildings, but they speculated dozens were alive but not saved.
@@Soupslusher_68 that is some chilling shit
my god you're right and that really darkens this already dark tone
@@Soupslusher_68 omg ! Why weren't they saved?? Did it should of been an ongoing rescue . This makes me feel sick.
Its so..... quiet... everyone was on edge or depressed, almost no inbetween too.
ummm did you not see the hippies playing hacky sack and guitar
@@aBraveNewNormal I did but just cuz they're playing guitar and singing doesnt mean they're not sad or anxious. Manhattan just lost the 2 largest buildings in the world, 2,996 loves ones, all in one single morning
RMS Olympic and in shock
@@rmsolympic8375 also they're playing comfortably numb I believe
@Stxr KillerX Both..
Even the dog looked sad. He could probably sense the mood.
Today is 9/11/23. And I would like to mark my words here, today.
I was gonna be born on 9/11 but my mom held me in until 9/12, I love my mom for putting all the pain inside her just for me to not celebrate my birthday on such a tragic day.
Love you mama ❤
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday!
HBD 🎉🎉
happy bday
Happy birthday 🎉
My dad worked at the world trade center at the time.. His birthday is 9/11 so he didn't go into work that day. If he was born 7 minutes later, he probably wouldn't be here today.
Wow that's kinda tough to think about. He must feel really lucky but I hope he is doing well
Oh how the universe works it’s ways but I’m happy your dad didn’t go in that day but still pretty gut-wrenching to think the same fate could’ve happened to him
I wonder how hard it would be to have a birthday on such a terrible day in history. But he sure is lucky that he wasn't in there during the attack.
@@sledhead340 I mean people shouldn't beat themselves up over something they can't control like their birthday. But still of course lucky for him he skipped work that day
@@sledhead340 I wasn't born yet, but my dad almost went into work that day anyways. But my grandparents came into town so they met up with the two of them at a restaurant. A lot of his coworkers and friends were victims unfortunately.
That man playing the saxophone spoke more words about that day than anyone else.
He was trying so hard to find beauty and share it with the world despite what he just witnessed days ago.
@@Devil_Mishima i dont think so
What about the kids playing confortably numb?
Reminds me of the Titanic band that calmed everyone while sinking..
How ?
It’s nice to see that everyone is helping each other out after a horrible attack happened. Tragedy can turn into beauty.
This was your fault Jew
Thank you for this footage! This allows me, a 15 year old guy from germany to experience this special feeling you must have had after two planes crashed into the towers you maybe saw everyday as a part of daily live, which now is a invisible symbol of terrorism and death. My condolences to the family of everyone who died at ground zero, regardless if its a fireman, a passanger in one of those planes or someone working in on of the towers.
I'm glad you wanted to learn what happened. My dad and I were there on Sept 11. My dad ran to do free emt infront of the millennium hotel.
Thank you brother. We don’t know each other but this means a lot. That day was horrific.
My dad told me that he used to see the same old faces every morning in the train heading to work . Most of them worked at the twin towers . He said the next day after 9/11 train carts were mostly emptied . He never saw those people again
@@fugit1vegaming397 don’t wanna be that guy but he must’ve noticed the faces if they noted ‘the same old faces’ on the train
@@AuCeVi thats nit funny . Your'e goibg to hell
That’s chilling
@@AuCeVi omg so edgy!! He's laughing at dead people!! What a cool and clever guy!!
God... that haunts my soul.
Seeing that dog broke my heart. It made me realize how many dogs never got to see their owners again
Just thinking about dogs who were waiting at home, wondering why their best friend isnt home yet. Heart breaking
They had families too you know
So sad that dog is prolly deaf
Dreaf
Deqf
Lower Manhattan had a particular smell for the next few days, one that I never forget. A mix of concrete, fuel, burnt plastic, and Death. it got stuck on my clothes for some time.
0:33 something about seeing that dog really moved me no idea why sounds corny but it did RIP to all those lost but not forgotten ❤
Its so surreal seeing how people don't know what to do and are just wandering around not really knowing what to do
They're in shock
@Hot Tea Not the time man, not the time.
@Hot Tea this isn’t funny
@Hot Tea Literally shut the fuck up with those tiktok comments. That app is toxic within itself
*it's*
Everyone looks like they’re wondering what’s the purpose of their lives and if what they’re doing even actually matters.
Talk about Reality check
@Макс Ловал i try not to think about dark shit ok
I think most people are scared if an attack like that will happen again and that’s why they look so confused but also scared
@@unclegardener notin matter
@@unclegardener it's what you do for yourself and others that matters
Was born on this day. Mom went into labour right after the first plane hit. She was in labour all day, was born just after midnight
Where was she to feel the shocked and trauma to immed. give birth ?
@@Pearlangeldream she was sitting in a bathtub in Toronto where I’m from. I was already a week late, I guess the shock of hearing about the attacks from Howard Stern induced the labour lol
If you were born just after midnight than isn’t your birthday technically the 12th?
@@generaljellybeans9524 Ya that’s why I said I was born on the day in this video The video is called “the day after 9/11”…
@@T.oronto oh my god I’m dumb
I was born 04' so obviously I wasn't around for this, but since I was maybe 4 or 5 years old, every year whenever 9/11 either is approaching or on the day of I go on a full watch spree. Documentaries, short films, and now actual footage of the day. And every year I always get the same feeling of "I can't even imagine what that was like."
I was born too in 2004, so I obviously wasn’t around when the day happened either.
But man, when I was quite young I was fascinated by learning about the tragedy by watching the same things that you’ve watched. Now since I’m 19, and the event was 22 years old, seeing this gives me a good glimpse of how impactful this event was.
You and me both,I’m 45 yrs old now,since this happened I have been watching a lot of docus on 911,and whenever it is approaching it’s anniversary I make the effort to rewatch everything I could find.I don’t know why I do it but it makes me feel connected in some way to the people who watched this live as it happened and to those like me who witnessed it from news on tv thousands of miles away,I was 20 yrs old and just became a nurse and I felt I needed to be there to help
I have that long 4 hour long event dashboard video and I start playing it on my phone at the same time the video picks up at.
'04 baby as well, now 20 as I type this. I ask my parents, my teachers, anyone who was old enough to remember. My algebra teacher was in high school when it happened. My aunt was thirteen. Even they have more knowledge than me. I can only imagine what the lost lives in the planes and towers were thinking. Such a horror to be aware of one's own quickly-approaching, untimely death and not being able to stop it.
Somewhat surreal, but about a week before Oct 7, 2023 and the siege on Gaza, my friend and I were talking about 9/11 and I mentioned seeing a video of Mariah Carey and her trying to remember 9/11 while her young fans reacted with apathy. I sympathized with Carey because to be alive and remember that was such a shift in American culture in every aspect. My friend reminded me that 9/11 resulted in the scapegoating by Americans, including the president, of all things Muslim and I cursed myself for forgetting that. My friend was right. The US invasion of Iraq was devastating for so many innocent lives. There's a reason those young fans reacted differently from Mariah. Mariah's generation had been privy to 9/11, but the Islamophobic aftermath went on long enough for the kids to see.
I would need that reminder. The scapegoating of disadvantaged groups as a reaction to tragedies has not died, going on 23 years later.
Movie theater being free got me, not sure why. Guess it's just seeing everyone willing to help cheer people up and take their minds off what happened.
Dude same
me too
I was thinking the same thing although I don’t think I would’ve watched one during that time
I would have tried to find the owner and personally thanked him. He’s risking 0 profit just to help people get their mind off what happened.
Yes
it's so... quiet? you can hear everyone thinking.
So I watched the video twice but I couldn't hear anyone thoughts? Could you indicate where in the video I can hear it?
Dominik Dario 🤦♂️ do you seriously not understand what they mean by that. I don’t even think I have to explain it to you since you’re either a troll or a delusional piece of shit.
It's so not NYC 😭we know new York city is always hustling and bustling but it's so freaking silent. It really sucked 😕
@@dominikdabrowski7082 bruhhhhhhhh
Dominik Dario stop playing 💀
You can tell that everyone is still processing it and it just makes you sad.
They knew a war was about to start.
The one where the guy was sitting on the curb with his hand on his face literally broke me it’s such a sad day that happened and especially for the people who went through. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That was very generous of the theater offering free movies and snacks
Yeah
Hey some guys took advantage and brought some aks inside
Subscribe Or Die America
Zenouk _ shut up
@@Chuked What does aks stand for?
it’s so sad how everyone just looks so bummed out and confused.
But also funny how people watched the hackey sack guy while still bummed and confused
New York’s always been bummed out 😂
@@Lincoln.Osiris it's like looking at the rainbow after a destructive storm
You just had 911 likes
@@Lincoln.Osiris kinda rude
I lived in New Jersey at the time of the attack. I don't remember all that much of the aftermath, mostly on account of being six years old. I do however, remember with great clarity how for at least a day after 9/11, anytime I was outside I was constantly sneezing. I just remember being confused as to why I was sneezing so much and feeling irritated because of it. It's...sobering to look back on those memories as an adult and realize that the wind had carried the debris from the towers all the way from New York to New Jersey. My sneezing was my body trying to clear out the debris I breathed in.
Kinda throws ya for a loop when you think about it. Thousands of people were dead and or dying, thousands were injured, millions were in shock...and one six year old girl was frustrated because she couldn't stop sneezing.
I'll always remember, I was 11, in my Bronx neighborhood we came together and held a vigil for those who perished and for our city/nation. It was beautiful. I can't think about it without tearing up.
I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.
Huh?
@@fruitloop622 don't act stupid
@@chocthemoc967 Calm down mate.
@@Ringar2021 LOL OK M8
@@fruitloop622 tiktok sound
This is weirdly nostalgic and feels slightly traumatizing even though I literally wasn't alive when it happened
Ya same!
I was 3 when it happened
What if your past life you died in the one of the buildings???
@@marceldawn0_o hmm this is the thing that won’t let me sleep tonight 🧐
@@marceldawn0_o well the fact that some were born in 2002, 2003, 2004,+
I recall the strange feeling of looking at the night sky on 9-11 and it being totally devoid of any aircraft. It was eerie.
That would've been powerful if you lived in an area with high air traffic. It's amazing that the whole nation was shut down that day. You could cut the mood even here in Australia with a knife.
Hard to believe a whole generation has been born since 9/11. It still feels recent for everyone around at the time.
And today marks 22 years of that day, watching this video and first it makes you sad to see people walking aimlessly but then you see all the people Helping and encouraging gives me enormous faith and makes my heart quite happy.
My dad interviewed for a job with a company who worked in the World Trade Center. He didn’t get it, which is super lucky looking back on it.
I'm glad your dad's alive.
@@jeremiahkennon4990 thank you yeah me too
Go buy your dad and beer and talk with him
@@benberkson4481 now praise god that will help you get closer to Him and you will be luckier. i aint tryna be that guy but it’s true it’ll help you trust me
@@unclegardener it wont
I remember that week vividly. I live in Queens, and it was so eerie in the city for a long time after. I was off on the day of 9/11, and I was planning to go to J&R music World that morning to buy a headset for my cell phone. Anybody from NY remembers how close J&R on Park Row was to the Twin Towers. I would have been caught up in all that, but I decided to stay home and chill in bed. That probably ended up saving my life.
Wow
Wow .. how lucky you were. I went to school on Park Place between Broadway and Trinity, so I used to walk down Park Row daily. I was 13 on 9/11 and lived in SI, but my dad was a homicide detective in Manhattan and his precinct was the 1st precinct which covers the towers. He was off also, thank God 🙏
Do you remember a plane crash in queens two months after?
Wow your lucky stay safe man
@@kdxtreme7479 yeah, an American Airlines plane in Far Rockaway that December I think. It was headed to Puerto Rico. We thought it was another terrorist attack.
Wow . This is hard to watch with today being the 22nd anniversary of the attacks . I can feel the emotions . I remember being in 5th Grade when our teacher turned on the news and we could all see the North Tower on fire. Like everyone, I thought it was an accident. That was until we saw the second tower hit and everything changed . We all got sent home and I lived three blocks away from school. When I got home, I remember asking my mom what was going on and she just grabbed me and told me to sit down and we watched in silence. To this day, I’ll never forget me and her watching the news nearly every day after the attack. I was only 10 so I didn’t know what terrorism meant . My heart breaks on the anniversary. So many people suddenly lost their lives in an evil attack in just a span of nearly 2 hours. We will never forget .
It’s chilling when you think about how an entire generation grew up with the Twin Towers, and had never seen the NY skyline without them. So I can only imagine how that first day seeing the empty skyline must have been such a stab to the heart.
just imagine how much anxiety a lot of people had whenever they heard a plane flying by
I mean. It’s just a plane high in the air so they’d probably not even hear it
@@SenkaBandit you can still sorta hear a plane even if its really high im pretty sure
Chris Peacok i dont think it would be so bad to give someone anxiety but just saying :/
I was talking about this with my sister a couple of weeks ago. I'm not even from the U.S. and I was 6 years old when this happened, but I still get nervous every time I hear a plane flying "too close".
I was in high school in central Massachusetts on 9/11. I remember going out for gym class at 11 am and military choppers and jets flew over the school multiple times. It was terrifying each time because we all had been watching the news unfold in classrooms for gym class. That whole day is still quite vivid in my memory.
Anyone else think about how the masks look extremely normal 20 years later
no they dont they suk
@cryptozoid what dust ?? Air pollution?
Edited: lots of people have answered my question, so thank you!!!
@@sorayamartini11 yes
@@xaedeo6549 was the situation worse than now or did something significant happened cause the pollution ?? Sorry for asking so many questions because I was -2 years old I know nothing
Edited: lots of people have answered my question, so thank you!!!
@@sorayamartini11 I dont really know I wasn’t even born at the time ...
So thankful someone recorded this. 9/11 happened when I was only a year old so obviously I don’t remember any of it…but seeing this allowed me to step into this tragic but beautiful moment in time. All people could do was love on each other after that.
The scene with the saxophone.. eerie and beautiful.
My mom, told me the days after it happened, everyone was just quiet, she'd go to a store and it was silent, as if everyone was in a complete state of shock. Everyone had American flags on their cars including hers, and it was just shock.
@Pepe The Sucker I have no idea, my mom only told me what happened the days after, but not in full detail, I wasn't born when it happened.
What the fuck even happened here?!
I think these two people are the same person, because they're writing style is exactly the same and he is having a fake argument with himself....
@Pepe The Sucker Yes, there were persecution against Muslims and those misunderstood to be Muslims.
One man went to a gas station and killed the cashier because he thought he was Muslim. Come to find out, he wasn’t Muslim but Sikh. (They also wear turbans). Very sad.
@mark q awesome wtf is wrong with you
the peoples voices are quiet but their thoughts are probably so loud :(
nice big q pfp
yeah there's such a heavy sense of gloom :(
@@alicianotfound8058 hey at least we're both quackity
Cringe
@@luis-il2fl aw
The fact that most of the people there are all quiet and look sad makes it more depressing
Seeing some of the people trying to cheer others up warms my heart people were so kind and caring back then racism wasn't as bad as it is today. Rest in piece to the people that couldn't escape the towers..
Imagine those officers, firefighters, and EMTs having to work the day after over 300 of their colleagues were murdered
Oh my goodness you’re so right, that is heart breaking
RIP first responders. They will never be forgotten.
No, man kind will fuck up life somehow.
Worse than that; 343 firefighters and 72 cops and other first responders, total 415.
The first responder being “murdered” doesn’t serve it justice. Call it a sacrifice to save lives.
The fear is so loud with the silence.
Nice way of describing it
Not necessarily fear, it could just be shock and sadness
I was there. It was more shock. Sadness, anger but mostly shock.
there was not fear but disbelief
Seeing a horror movie💀
I was born in 1994. I was in first grade in math class when 9/11 happened. And this, this feeling is what I remember the most. Seeing the world suddenly change in to this in the following days. Seeing a massive, massive change in every single person in this country. We were one for a moment. And then we turned to hate.
I was a Freshman in highschool also, in Minnesota. Our school day started at 7:30am central time-New York is an hour ahead on eastern time. My first class was English: we had just started reading Lord of the Flies. We were silently reading & another teacher came in, whispered something to my teacher, & they turned on the TV. I had absolutely no concept of what the World Trade Center was for, even less of an idea that there were people who would hate Americans so much they’d want to kill them. There was so much confusion when first period ended, walking to our second classes and talking amongst ourselves trying to figure out what was happening and why it was happening. My second class was American Government (how timely, right?) I remember my teacher was pregnant. It was from her that I gained more clarity about the situation & I’m grateful I had that class when I did. We watched as things progressed and it was the first time I remember truly realizing that adults get scared, too & can forget to be brave for kids to reassure them things would be alright…things were definitely not alright. I remember at the end of the day wondering if we’d lose our country in the morning when we woke up, or if America would simply just fall apart and cease to be…scared me then and twenty two years later I can still feel the fear I felt that day. We must never forget.
I’m honestly surprised people felt safe enough to go outside
Honestly doe
Idk, I think outside would of been safer than in one of the WTC's..
i mean.. its not corona..
Edits by Chaymsae No but the amount of debris littered around was a hell of a lot. Also, nobody knew if that day was going to be the first of many attacks. I still don’t get how people felt safe to leave their homes in days after the attack.
Cowering in their homes is exactly what the terrorists would've wanted
2001 truly was when the 90s ended
Wdym
holy shit you’re right the 90’s did truly end after 2001
I'm pretty sure the 90s ended when 01/01/2000 00:00AM
"and it all went downhill from there..."
These are your halcyon years. Stop dwelling on the past and relish the present, please.
I’m pretty sure they mean the vibe of the 90’s.
This is so poignant and somber but yet an underlying spirit of solidarity and patriotism.
Sad but humbling.
Thank you so much for capturing and sharing this footage
Never Forget ❤️🇺🇲💙
It is like people are still in shock and half of them disassociating asf
Empathy is one power people possess that gives them the kindness to those who need calming.
I don't live in usa nor was I born in 2001 but I do feel the disassociation and shock, the same as when my grandma died despite my mother doing cpr to keep her alive long enough for the ambulance.
I watched a video the other day (courtesy of youtube's recommendation) showing three perspectives recordings of the tragedy as the first tower burning up, people jumping out of the tower to avoid dying by being on fire and saw another plane hitting the other tower and watching in horror as both towers collapsed and definitely damaging the buildings surrounding them. The injured victims and the families of the victims are still alive, may they have move on to healing and may those who died, rest
This gives me such a weird feeling. It makes me feel like everyone is actually real and not just people walking by on the sidewalk.
that’s bc everyone is actually real
@@star-ks3bs well no shit but that’s not what they mean
This feeling has a name it's called "sonder*
@@cheesecat2004 that’s cool! learned a new word :)
@@audsl8951 well duh 🙄😂
it's depressing, you can tell everyone is down
Not really thats just how everyone is
even the dog
I mean, obviously?
@@everett4057 that's what i said. poor pup
I was thinking the same thing it's feel depressing watching this
Your videography very much captures the lost souls. I'm in Michigan and still was terrified of local things happening here. The state of NY was mine for sales at work. My customers were more than heartbroken.
I couldn't really think much of outside of "this was terrible" from my perspective, as someone who wasn't there nor from New York. But this shows the view from someone from New York, and just shows how much despair there is. And also shows the unity of the people there. So somber, so tragic, yet somehow beautiful too.
People wearing masks looks so familiar now
I didn't realize it wasn't because of covid until a minute or so later 😂
Fernando Lomas
Oh god, he’s desensitized...
Was thinking the exact same thing. If this covid bullshit didn't happen, we'd watch this and go, 'what's with the masks?'
I hate face masks I hope the pandemic ending a few months so that we all can go out without worrying about that.
Shizu 44
My guy get ready for 2020 season 2
The energy this video is so heavy. Nobody seems to know what to do, what to think. They all seem so lost and confused. And there not even doing anything out of the ordinary for them.
You described Life
And they don't know it yet, the world will never be the same.
They’re*
Finally someone who uses "lost and confused" for an *actual* tragedy unlike those who uses it just because they couldn't hang out with friends😒
@@user-qx8vo8dz2w so you can't feel bad for anything unless it's an "actual"tragedy?
I'll never forget the city in those days. I lived in East Harlem and went to Union Square on 9/14. People were in mourning - but also having spirited debates about military intervention. Hey, we're New Yorkers after all. I remember sitting at Cosi on Broadway and 13th and a fire truck drove by and we were all applauding the firefighters. I later learned that people applauding them in those days made them feel bad, because they all had survivors guilt and felt helpless. God bless them all.
I turned 18 just a few months ago, wasn’t alive yet but plenty of family members were.
My dad said that he saw it on TV after my aunt yelled at him to look at the TV, he couldn’t believe it and called my grandmother, she was hysterical.
Same thing for my mother, she saw it on TV and couldn’t believe it but if I recall correctly, her mother called her first telling her about what happened.
My father was only a few miles away from New York at the time.
When I asked both my father and my mother about the day after, they said it was a very quiet day.
My man is literally able to record in the streets of New York without worrying about cars
ok
or criminals trying to rob him
u have 911 likes lol
Not all people are "men" - sexist comment
T Bone as a ny ny is safe asl
The “day at the movies poster” actually made me cry. You can visualize so many destroyed souls just looking to get away with a movie and a free soda/popcorn
If I was in the same situation to be around 911, and find "free movies letter" I can be happy
I mean why miss out on a opportunity for free popcorn. Movie Popcorn is crazy expensive. (I'm just trying to light up mood)
righttt
@@eclipse619_ god youre young
@@Dukeybookey you're*
fact that I'm watching this on 9/12/23 is crazy
thats because you are special
Very important historical footage. Glad there is no commentary, just the raw audio. Tysm.
this was genuinely the quietest footage of nyc i’ve ever watched and it’s heartbreaking
only after the first Covid chaos lockdowns it was more quiet...
@@lucasrem they also wear masks
One day or two? this is normal in afghanistan for 20 years. all you hear is bombs and fire guns sounds or screams.
@@mujtabaraisani Ask me how I know you are not white
@@mujtabaraisani shouldn’t have knocked down the towers then 🤦♂️ Afghanistan and Iraq were the naughty kids who acted out and got put in time out for 20 years…not our fault
Sad fact: the rescue dogs actually got really depressed because they could only find dead bodies so there caretakers had to bury themselves under the rubble to encourage the dogs.
We don’t deserve dogs
tsk this breaks my heart even more....
I love dogs for this very reason 🥺 truly, we don't deserve them
my mom told me this and I've never looked at any service dog the same
Dogs are the best omg.
I am so Happy that i will get a Service Dog soon(i suffer from Panic and i can't even Go Out in Public alone so i am Double Happy to get one)
how do you know? thats really cool
its a day none of us will ever forget...i'll never forget it....the pain.....but also, even 1 day after it all happened, even in our dark moments after the horror of it all, we united with love and music and poetry to bring our hearts healing
Thank you for sharing all videos, you were so young that time
We saw on tv at that time...
there’s so many people yet it’s so quiet. chills. full body chills.
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Exactly that’s not normal for NYC
is it louder there usyally?
@@madeleine8662 yea Lower Manhattan on any other day is busting with people and talking and should know I’ve lived here for 18 years now
You can just see the pain on their faces.
@@madeleine8662 Yes. Much louder. And most of this video is from around Union Square, a gathering spot about a mile north of the WTC. Even a block away, things were even more quiet.
Everyone's just sad, not going to work and basically just wandering the streets, this is so sad...
I know right 😭 I feel sad looking at them
And now it spread across all of america
Many people who worked in those buildings didn’t go to work that day. Obviously not knowing the unfortunate events that would soon come. But you’d be shocked to know the number of people who were now jobless due to not only working inside the buildings, but also for the many companies affiliated with them. It was a tough time for sure and it took the city many years to fully recover, at least economically.
Uno what's sadder putting the blame on innocent people and killing millions ik it wasnt ur fault and ik your just a kind hearted person but this would be a happy day in Syria, Iraq, afghanistan and other middle eastern countries all for a bearded man who claimed he was a religious man only to doom the lifes of "his own people"
People definitely went to work. The city didn’t completely stop
Your footages are incredible .. i'm french , but everyone saw it on TV.. the world was never going to be the same afterwards , for anybody ..
I can't even imagine what waking up in NYC would have been like that day, if anyone slept at all.
It’s like, calm. Chillingly calm. It’s the figurative calm “after the storm”. People stuck trying to process what had just happened. Never forget!
Thanks, GamerMoment03
Nice reply, you ever just uh just uh
When the Las Vegas shooting happened I remember about a week or two of this type of calm. It’s a mix of shock and confusion, because it could’ve easily been us. You don’t know how to react, and it’s so overwhelmingly numb, with just a little edge of anxiety. I never thought I’d see it again, especially in a city that isn’t my own.
The saying is “calm before the storm”
@@swisscheeseplease97 but it’s the day after. “Calm after the storm”
While this was being filmed there was two port authority police officers trapped under rubble who were talking to keep each other alive, later that day they both were dug out alive and made a full recovery.
When i was reading it i thought that you were going to say one of the cops died. Thank God they didn't i would've been sad out of that story
you mean the inspiration to that dumbass boring movie that got released
@@SmokeEater2012 what movie
snail World Trade Center I think
@Revenant oh believe me it was it was nothin but 2 dudes laying down doin nothin but talkin for more than an hour
this makes me teary-eyed thinking of those who perished and did not get to witness the following day, and for those who lost their loved ones with things never being the same again starting that day.
seeing stuff like the “a day at the movies” sign and people holding hands with each other is so wholesome, like everybody actually coming together in the midst of tragedy. nowadays they’d charge 5 bucks extra for everything and we’d all be paranoid of even our family
Lots of people walking around with a thousand-yard stare.
The walking dead
some of them probably had people they knew that died. Most likely the reason for that stare.
Trauma sets in
You know that maybe some of those people had loved ones who died that day!
oh yeah I can remember this emotion from everyone on the days afterwards. I live in South Jersey and ppl were just walking around like dazed out for sometime.
Seeing people walk around aimlessly and feeling confused, empty and lost is one of the most heartbreaking things.
Ikr🥺
They're just going for a walk. No doubt the events of the previous day are on all of their minds, but we don't really know if they're walking around aimlessly/confused/empty/lost or not, I think that could be a bit of projection on your part. Even if they are, people walk around aimlessly all the time -- it's called going for a walk. It's normal. And that is what is most surreal to me in this footage, it shows that life just carries on as normal... time waits for no man, and the world keeps spinning.
People in shock
That's me everyday though...🚶♂️
Colby and Brennen yes 😢😢😰
It was mourning for many years and decades, they could not even imagine how sad everything was for everyone and it hurt in the chest of those who survived and realized that your friend or relative was gone because of this day. I was also very crushed inside and out, and also watching it live and filming everything that was happening. We grieve for those who were killed by this terrible tragedy
They say that one picture is worth a thousand words. this picture captured millions of words without speaking a single word. The eerie silence broken by the occasional bird or dog noise, and the distant wail of a siren. How everything somewhat seems normal, yet everyone seen knows very well nothing is normal, but nobody can think of the words to describe it
its sad how much the world changed in just 2hrs
Usa only
@@interiorinterior5036 these north americans think the world is usa lol
@@dunf lmao ikr
It did change the world because of war and also the fact that most country’s tightened their borders and increased safety measures. The whole world was at shock really and it’s sad to think people can’t reconcile with that idea.
@@interiorinterior5036 Wrong. So, so wrong.
It’s soo weird seeing how the energy is, seeing people wear masks like we do today
Nothing's really changed
@adam adam And parrots repeating what talking heads tell them instead of the "actual" science didn't either.
Prophylactics work.
I didn’t even notice the masks until I saw the comment, it’s crazy how something that we didn’t even think of less than a year ago would be a normal part of reality now
@@bigsaucy8296 Shows you how naive people are when it comes down to it. Its really pathetic, going to such extremes for something that has a 99+% survival rate. What are people going to do when the Flu comes now?
I dont know if anybody will see this but my Fathers birthday was September 12th and he said it was one of the must fun days of his life because even though the towers were hit yesterday, he loved it because he spent the whole day at a bar with all of his friends. Still remember all the stories he told about this.
I would have totally reworded that differently if I were you. You make it sound like your father cared more about his birthday than the people that died on 9/11.
@@xxCelticFC If I were you Id totally hear the full story to know more perspective on the feelings and thoughts of people.
This is amazing film footage. NYC seems so quiet Thank you for sharing.
The day after 9/11, the hot dogs were free, the movies, the museums, everything. Everyone was just doing what they could to feel anything but pain. Everyone had a shoulder to cry on, and no one stayed inside that day. Makes you wonder what has to happen for us to be like that again. To just be Americans helping and loving each other without any judgment or forethought.
Two words: common goal.
Everyone wanted to cheer and be cheered up. Now, all over the planet, people are always divided by stupid politics and other things that are naturally divisive.
No, HUMANS should be helping and loving each other, not Americans
@@Bobspineable I feel like if something like this happened today (God forbid), people wouldn't be as helpful or kind; many would probably even stop to ask someone what their political and social and whatever else views/beliefs are before they decide to help them. 🙄 Just look at how terrible people got with COVID.
It's so quiet.
@@sweetiepielarae I know ppl have the most garbage takes on anything today about garbage takes in moments like this we need to embrace what makes us human ,emotions
Man 2020 it’s weird looking at these people 20 years ago all wearing face masks.
The reaction of the casualties in one day in 2001. Vs. That amt of loss of life in 2020. From a virus. How most people react is startling.
@N V M E R I V S - Agreed. There is no comparison. Viruses have ended lives for thousands of years. Viruses don’t have malicious minds. They are organisms that reproduce to survive. To compare that to ramming two airplanes into a building is absurd.
@N V M E R I V S what I am getting at is every day in my state is a 9/11 casualty day. And all anyone gives a fuck about is going out to eat or shopping. 1 in 974 americans are dead now. Thats my point.
@N V M E R I V S sars cov 2 is a wmd. The modality is just different.
@N V M E R I V S it doesn't really...thats a really selfish stance to have. Esp. With a disease with such high mortality and morbidity. And it isn't even THAT HIGH. 3%. And it is crippling our healthcare system, infrastructure. Its a domino effect.
I’m Canadian myself. My family has no connections to the US. Since I wasn’t alive for 9/11 I asked my mom what that day was like. She remembered she was on the treadmill in our basement, doing her morning workout. She was called by a friend who said something bad had happened. My mom assumed someone she knew had died but then she was told to turn on the TV. That’s when she saw the towers were struck. We Canadians are allies with the US but our relationship is deeper than being neighbours and allies. We are friends. For most countries we can brush off a terrorist attack, not because of distance but because of our relationship with that country. For the US we saw our friends being attacked, being killed and it was a scary thing. When the time came we gladly followed them into war. I would only hope the US would do the same for us if the roles were reversed.
It's like everyone's trying to go about their lives, but they're in shock and struggling to process what just happened