@@DaveFisher-cq2dr It was also the year that BRICS overtook the whole West in GDP and economic output. We now transitioned into the actual economic decline of the West.
You can literally hear the defeat and sorrow in the air. I grew up in NY. In this clip you don't hear chatter, taxi horns, sirens, people rushing to work, the bus air brakes, the subway running underground. It sounds like the city is almost crying. I know it's quiet for obvious reasons but still goes to show how devastating the attack was
The city that never sleeps stopped that day. If only for a little while, the busiest place on earth stood still and nothing but the silent, humbled silence of all that proud humanity filled the air. I couldn't begin to imagine what it must have been like, so quiet and empty.
I was 23 years old married with two little baby boys in Australia my daughter was born in 2007. Just before the 15th Anniversary in 2016 I was in New York City and stood at the memorials and remembered back to that day in Australia when I was 23 and saw the bodies falling and splatting, then now i was standing in that same spot it was eerily quiet and our expressions you can see the look of sadness in our eyes in the photos. I was there with my Canadian partner we traveled from Montreal to NYC for some days. I have Ivy still that I collected that was growing around the memorials
What a strange silence. I visited for a concert the following month, a lot of sirens/ fire truck activity. Flowers and candles and flyers posted for missing loved ones.
the world was so different then. it's like we lived through three different time periods in just 20 something years. before 9/11, right after when everything changed, and then the current times where weird things like the COVID lockdowns happened and social media hysteria and society hysteria in streets a lot
@@averagecarpentryskills7148 I wonder what will happen in a few more years, will something worse come? I hope that humanity will learn from past mistakes once and for all, although I don't think so.
I went there right after the World Series, and believe it or not, it was still smoldering. I still found papers and trash stuck in the trees. Unreal experience.
At 0:29 you can see a promotional poster for the adventure novel "Valhalla Rising" by Clive Cussler. In an eerie coincidence, this book's story happens to contain a terror plot to destroy the World Trade Center.
@@MarshaSweigarttbh any type of weather u guys would’ve said something bout it, if it’s sunny u would say surreal if it’s raining u would say bc of what just happened and if it’s snowing obviously people would come up with something for that
Moments like this in the aftermath never make it into the textbooks. This video is important documentation of the reality of it all. Thank you for uploading.
I was a freshman in high school in Brooklyn NY. I woke up on sept 12th from the sound of fighter jets buzzing my house. the airspace over NYC was closed to commercial air traffic and was now being protected by the air national guard i assume. i remember instantly thinking how surreal this all was and that the world is now a different place.
@gilbertalaniz9180 From what I remember, yes. I remember going shopping for school supplies on sept 12th. Classes were canceled, but i needed an expensive calculator for math class and stores were open. This was in Brooklyn and it was just like any other day. 'City that never sleeps' is real.
I can't believe it's that time again... the years keep going faster it seems. R.I.P. to all the innocent lives taken. And R.I.P. to anyone in this vid who may be gone.
We should also mention the suffering of the people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia. It wasn’t just two towers but entire cities that were bombed to smithereens. School, hospitals, living quarters. Not thousands but hundred thousands dead. Imagine New York being bombed for years to smithereens. Can’t imagine how bad people must have felt.
the most striking scene is everyone standing looking down the street to where the buildings had always stood against the skyline. it must have bene so unreal for them. just yesterday to have these monoliths and the next day gone and the shock of the devastation. I will never not be shocked seeing the planes hit no matter how many times I see it or to see the buildings crumbling down.
*I visited my buddy a NYU a month later. The fence surrounding Ground Zero was completely covered. People posted well-wishes and fliers looking for loved ones.*
I like knowing how old people were on that day as they try to "relate" to it somehow. My favorite is "I was too young to understand what was happening" Great! I'll file that away in the information bin👍
September 12th. A day no one realized was the first day where literally EVERYTHING changed from that point. We were officially no longer in the 90s. Edit: I’m aware the 90s ended in 1999 🥴thats not my point. 9/11 aggressively pushed us into the 2000s and the war on terror. We were at the turn of the century and so optimistic about the 2000s. Then this happened.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 Civic Nationalism was the prevailing belief system at the time, that anyone could come to our country, integrate, and become one of us. This held from the 90s until 2001. This event disabused the public of that thought, and led to the forever wars countless civilizations have fallen into in the middle east. We deliberately ignored intel that stated Osama was in Afghanistan for ten years. Instead we went after Iraq. 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'. Screenings at the airport became far more invasive in the name of 'safety', The Patriot Act literally gave the government permission to do whatever they wanted to you, if they believed you were an 'existential threat' to the nation. Pre 9/11, there was a sense of optimism in American culture, we were on top.
@TheMasterofDisaster48 9/11 was a significant event but didn't change an entire country forever. The world really changed after the recession in 2008 and the later covid in 2020
I wasn’t even a year old yet. The city still looks mostly the same today. If the camera quality was better you could’ve convinced me that this was taken yesterday. But knowing the context just makes it so eerie It makes me realize that nothing ever changes and yet *everything* changes, constantly. Life is just a strange paradox. RIP to the victims. Never forgotten
“Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Oscar Wilde
I was a couple of months old being fed mushy bananas by my mother at the time, she remembers watching it on the tv we had hanging in the kitchen clear as day, since it happened in the afternoon for us in Ireland and she had a day off work that day
Just now, I was thinking, "I wonder if the way people were, looks dated to the young people today? bc it doesn't look dated to me. Thanks for answering that question;) I was 20 years old in 2001.
@@alibhg3063They are full of bs, nobody cares trully about 9\11 anymore but it makes u look better if u say u care after 23 years. U stop carying about a dead relative after 23 years you have like 1% of the pain, it s a quarter of a century, life moves on, we will all die anywYs
To think that at the moment this was being filmed, there were still many people unaccounted for and maybe even people still alive waiting to be rescued.
I was 13 when this happened and had just started 8th grade. I remember back then the teacher wheeled the old CRT TV into my class and we all couldn't believe what we were seeing. It was so surreal. I remember that being a crazy time. It seems like it was just yesterday. RIP to all those lost that day.
The days following 9/11 we were all so nice to each other and where I lived at the time all you saw was American flags being flown, on houses, cars, all buildings. There was no division, we were all Americans. I was a police dispatcher at the time in a major city and for 2 weeks we had no crime at all.
Many people in New York just went on walks on sat in parks talking to random people and reflecting on the events. I mean with nothing open what else was anyone to do
A Sikh man was murdered outside a gas station 4 days after 9/11. Muslims and other religious/ethnic minorities everywhere faced hate crimes and violence while hundreds of thousands called for war in the Middle East.
I was 15, almost 16. I lived in TX, and even though it is very far away from NYC, there was a mood of great sobriety amongst all, even those on the highway. What an incredibly sad day for all of America.
I remember people driving through town with American flags strapped to their cars. People were putting up signs in their yards saying things like "stand together". It was the most united this country has ever been in my lifetime. It's sad that it took something like 9/11 to make it happen, and maybe sadder still that we'll probably never be that united again.
I’ve always said that if something like 9/11 happened today, everyone would just be fighting with each other and blaming different sides instead of coming together.
@@charlottecorday8494 it's the media man. it's all censored now and literally trying to divide us. just get through to the other side, make it known that you dont hate them. make an active effort to go to their spaces, break the algorithim trying to separate you guys. bring it up too. "Man what's with the fucking divide and censorship nowadays" and you'll find most real people will unite on that front. Humanize eachother, connect and learn what they've learned. teach them what you've learned. don't look at them as immediate enemies.
The last time we came together as a country. It’s sad, but over 20 years later, in today’s US, seems Bin Laden ultimately got what he wanted. A United States that’s divided, and spiraling downward.
🙏🏽🕊 man if i lived in New York at this time,id have my head in the sky every 5 seconds being so nervous. I was only in second grade at the time now im 30 and it still is painful and sureal knowing that day happened.
This is exactly how I felt living there. I was 9 at the time, living just across the river in Hoboken, saw the sky go from clear blue to black in what felt like an instant, and the paranoia didn't leave me for a while. It's no problem now, but for a long time, hearing a plane overhead made my heart skip a beat.
Yup that’s was me..and to top it off I lived in a twin tower building in Brooklyn ny & at the time I was thinking what if they after all twin tower buildings😩
I lived in Southern Jersey, near Atlantic City, and we had an Air Force base 5 minutes from my house. Toy could hear the jersey firing up all day and all night in the days following 9/11. It was kinda scary, and my kids at the time were so young and would get so scared every time they heard that extremely loud noise, and it would make our house rumble.
My grandparents told me that when this happened i was outside in the backyard and I said "why is it so quiet" No planes in the sky at all The birds even were being quiet
My mother says the same thing. My house is underneath the start to an approach for an airport in CT, and we get planes flying by all the time. According to her, that day, she didn’t hear a thing in the air. Plus, I think I recall ash from the wreckage actually coming down in my yard days or weeks after the attack. For context, I was seven years old that day, and I grew up in greater Hartford, almost exactly 100 miles away and upwind in the jet stream from lower Manhattan.
yeah it was eerie. I live half the country away but right after it there was this eerie stillness. I was at an open window and the air was stale and no sounds at all outside on a late summer day which is very odd. I go outside and it's same. trying to explain that to people they would think you were crazy. it was like all the air had been sucked out of us. everything was a haze for weeks.
@TaccRaccoon, I lived in New York then. Two weeks prior, I was parked on Church Street across from The WTC. There was a Century 21/Burlington Coat Factory there from memory. I kept looking across at the complex because I had a very uneasy feeling and premonition and realize much later there were no pigeons flying around like there always was. I kept looking across the street at the complex and didn’t know exactly what made me feel uneasy.
Every time I watch an old video of anything I start thinking about every person that has passed away since. In my small social world I know at least 50 people and it's probably way more than that.
im so happy im not alone when I see a video like this, everyone is living their own very different lives and here, everything changed, everyone came from a same tragic experience is so surreal to me.
Surreal.. feels like walking through a mall in the 80’s, early in the morning before all the stores opened, just a handful of people of what would be a great crowd of shoppers.
I was at work in the preschool I worked at. The director yelled bring the kids inside!!!! We all came inside from recess and could not believe what was happing!! 23 years already!!! Wow. God bless everyone
As a UPS driver I suspected that 9/12/01 would've been a business-as-usual type of day even given the horrific events of the prior day. And at 6:40 in this video my suspicions were confirmed! Looks like there might've been a driver supervisor with the driver that day, probably all hands on deck to bring everyone in early. What a beautiful video. Thanks, Vampire Robot.
I could imagine there were probably a few businesses that were deemed necessary enough to be opened. Pharmacies, people still need their prescriptions. Grocery stores And home improvement stores. People needed air filters for their homes, cleaning supplies, masks, etc.
@@biker5662 I wouldn't think many more than I just listed. The absolute necessities. Prescriptions, groceries, and home improvement/repair supplies (cleaning supplies, air filters, masks, etc)
i went to disneyland with my Dad and brother on this day. Nobody was there. Rode every ride. My dad knew how to make the best of even the darkest times.
Born, raised, Morningside Heights. Was at college in Connecticut. Family still in Manhattan in shock. Stayed away from the city for 2 weeks. Arrived by train. Went to a boxing match w my dad in the Garden that Friday. Strange feeling. Saw some friends that weekend. You couldn’t escape what happened. Just strange feelings everywhere.
Thank you for uploading this. RIP 9/11 Angels. Sorry got what happened to you guys. I mourn you all every day not just today. This situation traumatized me as a child. I still never healed from this event mentally. I’m scared of elevators at 35 years old because this situation triggered the phobia. I was 11 watching on tv. Hey did anyone notice Mariah Carey in the back 05:13 her Glitter album released Sept 11
I was 19 years old. Even over here on the other side of the world in Australia it was a very quiet day. The bus trip on the way to my class the next day was quiet, we were listening to the bus driver's portable radio.
I just turned 45 a week ago. I was only 22 when this happened, but I remember the entire day like it was yesterday. My Godfather, who lives in lower Manhattan, watched the whole thing from his balcony. I spent all day trying to reach him to make sure he was okay. Crazy how time flies.
September 11th, 2001 was the date that we were aggresively pushed into the 2000s and War On Terror. I wasn't born, then. But my dad tells me that the entire United States changed after that day, and not for better. Innocence and innocents were killed, he said to me. I feel deeply sorry for those who lost family members, then.
As a proud Queens resident who was 8 years old on 9/11 and had moved to the Midwest 3 months before, I will never forget the last time I saw the WTC in person.
I was about that same age. The sky wasn't clear again like it was that morning for months. My mom worked in another Trade Center plaza building, and every day for years, she would come home from work and her dark red car had turned a sickly beige from the dust.
@@OSTARAEB4 oh goodness, yeah, I've never smelled anything else like that air in my life, but I can still remember exactly what it smelled like when I think about it. Asbestos, ash, concrete dust, and metal.
Very interesting video. The day after. I don't know if I ever really thought about the perspective and what the vibe would've been like around there at that time.
I was in Paris that day as a tourist. Lots of shops had signs outside saying that any American's who wanted to phone home to check in on family could use their phone. A week later at a train station in the south of France i met an English family who asked if something big had happened, they had heard something was up. The world before smartphones!
I was 11 years old and in 6th grade when 9/11 happened. My dad hadn’t been retired from the army a year and I remember being terrified that the government would call him back to go to war.
I was 15. My dad was in the reserves and got activated. There was a high chance that he would have to go to the war, but he didn't have to go. He did get deployed for a year to another state, though.
People still look pretty much the same. Style hasn't changed much at all. Yet in 2001, if you were watching a 23 year old video, you would be watching something from 1978 and people would look drastically different.
Maybe the common people as they don't care as much about looks would put any old thing any shirt, a single pair of pants and go out, and especially the day after 9/11 I'm assuming they cared even less about how they looked. But when you look at celebrities, singers, all types of people that for some reason or the other HAD to care about their looks and the newest trends did look incredibly different from today. That really does show how much style has changed How many Things were different in 2001? Skinny jeans, super low, very thin eyebrows, the makeup is all different, the hair is all different Just look at Christina Aguilera or Paris Hilton from the time and you'll see what I mean Nobody ever looks like that today Everything has changed a lot Even in the 70's, you'd be very surprised to see how normal the common people walking on the streets would look. Because people who don't have time or will, or after a traumatic event, who are just gonna go get some milk at a grocery store, aren't gonna look like Cher in the 70's, they also would just wear a normal shirt, a normal pair of pants, and just be out doing their simple business, and if the camera quality was really good like nowadays, and so the audio recording, I can assure you even in 1978 the common people would look pretty much like today
@maikopasma9176 I appreciate your thoughts on this as it's something I think about a lot. Skinny jeans aren't a distinctive enough trend to the point where someone would look odd wearing them today. And I don't see the hair or makeup all that different. Thinking about still photographs, you could take one random picture from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80, and 90s and easily tell what decade it's from. Sometimes even what half of the decade it's from. But any still photo from the year 2000 onward could pretty much have been taken in any year since. I've watched music videos from songs I like not even realizing that it's a 15 year old video.
@@1w72stWell, since covid19 time (2019-2022) Nostalgia time from these decades: 80's 90's,2.000's we're the tendency and still does, that's reason why it looks kind of the same in fashion.
I think you are completely correct. And yes, as has been pointed out, if you watch a music video or some other thing that by definition had to be “ trendy” or current from the year 2001, there are some stylistic differences that you could point to that date the video. But for the most part, the huge stylistic differences that defined the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s 80’s and early 90’s , started evaporating in the late 90’s right around the same time the internet started catching on, and are almost completely gone now. I personally could not tell the difference between a photo taken in 2001, 2011, or 2021 (unless someone had their phone out)
@@maikopasma9176 common people in normal clothes still had distinct, period specific looks in the 50’s , 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. It wasn’t just celebrities and fashion models. That just doesn’t exist now and I would argue started happening in the late 90’s around the time the internet started taking off. And the reason for this, in short, is that the internet killed the monoculture. A common pop culture is what creates fads, trends, and fashion. When everyone can exist in their own bubble culture wise, then there can be no commonality from which a distinct, period specific aesthetic can arise.
I went to the WTC to attend the last 9/11 ceremony. I can tell that seeing in person the relatives of the victims and watching the pictures of the victims themselves, many of whom really young, made me feel the same sadness I felt in 2001.
I've heard someone say that many taxi drivers gave free rides for people who was trying to find family members, friends etc. They took them everywhere they wanted to go and look. Such a beautiful thing to do.
One thing I definitely remember about the day after the attack was how quiet it was at school (I was in the 3rd grade in Jersey City at the time). Everyone was emotionally drained.
I remember waking up and seeing this on the tv. I was in my early 20’s working at a restaurant. I went to work and we had tvs and all the customers that day were silent and in shock and still processing what happened that day. It was a weird eerie feeling like no other. Which was different back then you would talk and have conversation with your regulars. The only thing that was understood that day was the historical moment.
I remember this very clearly. The mood felt like we were all waking up from a nightmare and the mood in the city was extremely somber the day after with everyone going out to donate blood and looking for missing loved one who were most likely dead.
NY collectively went through the five stages of grief that time. everyone was still in disbelief and mourning here, but soon after, anger started seeping in.
I had just turned 26 and was getting ready for work and my dad called from work letting us all know what was going on. My thoughts and prayers still go out to all the families of this horrible event.
I was...a baby during this time, I learned about in school around 4th grade, R.i.p to the ones who could not have made it to this day, insane how this happened so many years ago, 9/11 was for sure a troubling time for many, It's terrible.......To those who had lost their family, their lover,friend you have my sympathy.....🙏🏾🕊🕊
What an absolutely surreal time to experience. Even though I was halfway across the country and knew no one lost that day, there was a very real feeling of loss and sadness. That feeling was quickly replaced with an overwhelming sense of pride and patriotism for America that's hard to describe. It's something you'll only know if you were alive during that time, but I've never felt that way again.
Glad to see a video showing NYC on "The Day After." Too little attention is paid to the eerie and melancholy feeling that pervaded the city for months following the attacks; emotions were on high, Manhattan below Canal Street reeked of a potent acrid odor, the unknown loomed large and omnipresent, and New Yorkers were still trying to process the tragedy.
My dad visited NYC just a little after two weeks after 9-11-2001 and went and saw ground zero and he said the debris were “still smoldering” even after 2 weeks after the buildings came down.. he took pictures on a disposable camera being they didn’t have smartphones back then and the pictures are jaw dropping.. 😢😢 rip to all those who died on the horrific day 🙏🏽🕊️🪦
Watching this, I can really see how the soul of the city has been ripped out of its very core by the events of the previous day! It's so sad as you can see the small number of people that have ventured out have lost that New York spark and ambitious drive they had prior to the attacks.
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9/10 and 9/12, two completely different realities!
September 10,2001 the last full day of living the vibes of the 90s September 12,2001 a new full day of a new normal
exactly, when the whole world split from "before" to "after"
@@DaveFisher-cq2dr Same with the COVID year.
@@zionismisterrorism8716 yes, the year 2020, you're absolutely right
@@DaveFisher-cq2dr It was also the year that BRICS overtook the whole West in GDP and economic output. We now transitioned into the actual economic decline of the West.
You can literally hear the defeat and sorrow in the air. I grew up in NY. In this clip you don't hear chatter, taxi horns, sirens, people rushing to work, the bus air brakes, the subway running underground. It sounds like the city is almost crying. I know it's quiet for obvious reasons but still goes to show how devastating the attack was
The city that never sleeps stopped that day. If only for a little while, the busiest place on earth stood still and nothing but the silent, humbled silence of all that proud humanity filled the air. I couldn't begin to imagine what it must have been like, so quiet and empty.
0:27 Bus air brakes
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Very somber.
@@Apollo5595 the city stood still and so did the world. the world was about to change forever.
This is the closest we can get to timetravel. Thanks for uploading!
I think we'll get closer to the time travel immersion when AI gets better.
Absolutely agree, too bad we can only go to the past for the time being.
Thanks for TH-cam..
Absolutely!!
@@evon7105the closest you can get is with lucid dreams
I absolutely cannot believe it's been 23 years already !!!
It’s wild. I was in high school. The next day was so sad.
The further we get away from it, the more unbelievable it seems
UNBELIEVABLE that it's been that long.
Time really fly's by! I remember when it was the 10th anniversary. :(
Believe it sister!
I was just 19 right out of my parents house.. 42 now. Time flies
You're a couple of years older than me. I was in high school at the time.
I was 23 years old married with two little baby boys in Australia my daughter was born in 2007. Just before the 15th Anniversary in 2016 I was in New York City and stood at the memorials and remembered back to that day in Australia when I was 23 and saw the bodies falling and splatting, then now i was standing in that same spot it was eerily quiet and our expressions you can see the look of sadness in our eyes in the photos. I was there with my Canadian partner we traveled from Montreal to NYC for some days. I have Ivy still that I collected that was growing around the memorials
I was 18 just graduated high school 41 now
18 here. Still living at home. 🎭
I’m 7
Thank you for keeping the proper format rather than artificially widening it.
In 4X3 like most of us would’ve seen it.
Now all we need is a 60fps upload (No Ai)
@@IonicHyperspace not how it works
If it was a proper date format it would be even better
What a strange silence. I visited for a concert the following month, a lot of sirens/ fire truck activity. Flowers and candles and flyers posted for missing loved ones.
the world was so different then. it's like we lived through three different time periods in just 20 something years. before 9/11, right after when everything changed, and then the current times where weird things like the COVID lockdowns happened and social media hysteria and society hysteria in streets a lot
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@@averagecarpentryskills7148Covid and modern wars
@@averagecarpentryskills7148 I wonder what will happen in a few more years, will something worse come? I hope that humanity will learn from past mistakes once and for all, although I don't think so.
I live in Michigan and it was just as silent that next day😢
The city that never sleeps was eerily quiet.
Not asleep. Crying.
@@nobodyburgen4594bit cringey that comment
And for good reason.
thought that city was Las Vegas
@@StephenCarrIsBald you're cringy
The fact that you didn’t even have to put the year and people instantly know it’s THAT year…says alott
wow I hadn't noticed that. insane.
I went there right after the World Series, and believe it or not, it was still smoldering. I still found papers and trash stuck in the trees. Unreal experience.
A terrible day to start the 2000s
What world series?
@@seesaw41 Yankees vs Diamondbacks!
@@kolawoleaminu5353it would only get worse
You FOUND papers in trees? You dug them out. They would’ve been contaminated with decaying tissue and stuff.
At 0:29 you can see a promotional poster for the adventure novel "Valhalla Rising" by Clive Cussler. In an eerie coincidence, this book's story happens to contain a terror plot to destroy the World Trade Center.
Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Square.
Wow....
Suddenly tempted to read all Clive Cussler books to form a list of places to never be.
Eerie indeed
Crazy
The city is so quiet. You can feel the sadness. People must have still been in disbelief. The world has never been the same.
And both days, 11th and 12th were exceptionally beautiful sunny days..I remember that it seemed surreal.
People were in disbelief and sorrow for a long long time. The first few weeks you could feel something has happened and everything was different.
Let s not exagerate, nowadays nobody cares really about 9/11😂. But back in the days it was absolutely terrifying.
@@Hypocrisy.Allergic Yeah since Covid came around people forgot about 9/11
@@MarshaSweigarttbh any type of weather u guys would’ve said something bout it, if it’s sunny u would say surreal if it’s raining u would say bc of what just happened and if it’s snowing obviously people would come up with something for that
Moments like this in the aftermath never make it into the textbooks. This video is important documentation of the reality of it all. Thank you for uploading.
I was a freshman in high school in Brooklyn NY. I woke up on sept 12th from the sound of fighter jets buzzing my house. the airspace over NYC was closed to commercial air traffic and was now being protected by the air national guard i assume. i remember instantly thinking how surreal this all was and that the world is now a different place.
I was a high school student in Brooklyn too at the time. Which HS did you attend? For me, Brooklyn Technical High School, Class of '04.
@@TheyCallMeSledge St. Edmund Prep. Class of 05
was there anything open in public
grocey stores anything
@gilbertalaniz9180 From what I remember, yes. I remember going shopping for school supplies on sept 12th. Classes were canceled, but i needed an expensive calculator for math class and stores were open. This was in Brooklyn and it was just like any other day. 'City that never sleeps' is real.
I can't believe it's that time again... the years keep going faster it seems.
R.I.P. to all the innocent lives taken. And R.I.P. to anyone in this vid who may be gone.
Such sacrifices!
Crazy to think there were Americans dying in wars caused by this that hadn’t even been born in 2001. May we never forget
We should also mention the suffering of the people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia.
It wasn’t just two towers but entire cities that were bombed to smithereens. School, hospitals, living quarters. Not thousands but hundred thousands dead. Imagine New York being bombed for years to smithereens.
Can’t imagine how bad people must have felt.
@@lightup6751This isn't about those.
@@zachatck64 it’s always about both
the most striking scene is everyone standing looking down the street to where the buildings had always stood against the skyline. it must have bene so unreal for them. just yesterday to have these monoliths and the next day gone and the shock of the devastation. I will never not be shocked seeing the planes hit no matter how many times I see it or to see the buildings crumbling down.
*I visited my buddy a NYU a month later. The fence surrounding Ground Zero was completely covered. People posted well-wishes and fliers looking for loved ones.*
I remember signing that banner. I went on a family trip in October 2002 and it was just a giant hole in the ground by then.
I turned 8 on 9/11/2001. Still feel for everyone who lost loved ones in NYC that day.
What a birthday, wow. Especially at the age where you’re making your early formative memories ❤
Well, it was some birthday!
I like knowing how old people were on that day as they try to "relate" to it somehow.
My favorite is "I was too young to understand what was happening" Great! I'll file that away in the information bin👍
I was 2 finna be 3
I wouldn’t be born for another year and 2 months
September 12th. A day no one realized was the first day where literally EVERYTHING changed from that point. We were officially no longer in the 90s.
Edit: I’m aware the 90s ended in 1999 🥴thats not my point. 9/11 aggressively pushed us into the 2000s and the war on terror. We were at the turn of the century and so optimistic about the 2000s. Then this happened.
A youth’s innocence lost
How so? The 90's literally speaking ended after 1999. And figuratively speaking ended in 1997.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 Civic Nationalism was the prevailing belief system at the time, that anyone could come to our country, integrate, and become one of us. This held from the 90s until 2001.
This event disabused the public of that thought, and led to the forever wars countless civilizations have fallen into in the middle east. We deliberately ignored intel that stated Osama was in Afghanistan for ten years. Instead we went after Iraq. 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'.
Screenings at the airport became far more invasive in the name of 'safety', The Patriot Act literally gave the government permission to do whatever they wanted to you, if they believed you were an 'existential threat' to the nation.
Pre 9/11, there was a sense of optimism in American culture, we were on top.
@TheMasterofDisaster48 9/11 was a significant event but didn't change an entire country forever. The world really changed after the recession in 2008 and the later covid in 2020
No, everything didn't literally change from that point, that's silly. For most of us life went on, it was just a little more subdued for a while.
What legend whoever recorded this. No one back then appreciated it either
I wasn’t even a year old yet. The city still looks mostly the same today. If the camera quality was better you could’ve convinced me that this was taken yesterday. But knowing the context just makes it so eerie
It makes me realize that nothing ever changes and yet *everything* changes, constantly. Life is just a strange paradox.
RIP to the victims. Never forgotten
“Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
- Oscar Wilde
I was a couple of months old being fed mushy bananas by my mother at the time, she remembers watching it on the tv we had hanging in the kitchen clear as day, since it happened in the afternoon for us in Ireland and she had a day off work that day
Just now, I was thinking, "I wonder if the way people were, looks dated to the young people today? bc it doesn't look dated to me. Thanks for answering that question;) I was 20 years old in 2001.
So strange that it was so long ago now there are adults with no memory of the event. People must have felt the same about the Berlin Wall before me.
The silence is haunting.😕
Eventually New Yorkers and the rest of the country moved forward the best it could from the terrorist incidents.
@@ericradford2142As like the rest of us, we could only move on. But you know damn well they'll _never_ forget this. Never forget.
I can literally sense every single person's tension
Same here
No you can't.
@alibhg3063 figurative language, my friend.
I do too Ryne, it's real.
@@alibhg3063They are full of bs, nobody cares trully about 9\11 anymore but it makes u look better if u say u care after 23 years. U stop carying about a dead relative after 23 years you have like 1% of the pain, it s a quarter of a century, life moves on, we will all die anywYs
To think that at the moment this was being filmed, there were still many people unaccounted for and maybe even people still alive waiting to be rescued.
As horrific as the previous day was, it didnt stop the world from turning.
But it change the world forever
It kind of did
Eager to watch this when I have time. Thanks for uploading. Remembering all the victims on that day, the first responders, and the families of both ♥️
I was 13 when this happened and had just started 8th grade. I remember back then the teacher wheeled the old CRT TV into my class and we all couldn't believe what we were seeing. It was so surreal. I remember that being a crazy time. It seems like it was just yesterday. RIP to all those lost that day.
The days following 9/11 we were all so nice to each other and where I lived at the time all you saw was American flags being flown, on houses, cars, all buildings. There was no division, we were all Americans. I was a police dispatcher at the time in a major city and for 2 weeks we had no crime at all.
N now we get crime constantly on normal days today
Wow, I never knew that. I wonder if that's the longest period we ever went without crime.
Many people in New York just went on walks on sat in parks talking to random people and reflecting on the events. I mean with nothing open what else was anyone to do
A Sikh man was murdered outside a gas station 4 days after 9/11. Muslims and other religious/ethnic minorities everywhere faced hate crimes and violence while hundreds of thousands called for war in the Middle East.
@saintclaire4897 ide say yes you are correct.
The year was 2001, I was 15 years old high school days... never thought I saw this day.
Me too!
I was 13 at the time
I was only one😢
I was 14 and a freshman in high school that year. That day was so surreal.
I was 15, almost 16. I lived in TX, and even though it is very far away from NYC, there was a mood of great sobriety amongst all, even those on the highway. What an incredibly sad day for all of America.
This shows that 9/12 mentality where people put their differences aside and prayed for peace and recovery
I remember people driving through town with American flags strapped to their cars. People were putting up signs in their yards saying things like "stand together". It was the most united this country has ever been in my lifetime. It's sad that it took something like 9/11 to make it happen, and maybe sadder still that we'll probably never be that united again.
I’ve always said that if something like 9/11 happened today, everyone would just be fighting with each other and blaming different sides instead of coming together.
@@charlottecorday8494 it's the media man. it's all censored now and literally trying to divide us. just get through to the other side, make it known that you dont hate them. make an active effort to go to their spaces, break the algorithim trying to separate you guys.
bring it up too. "Man what's with the fucking divide and censorship nowadays" and you'll find most real people will unite on that front. Humanize eachother, connect and learn what they've learned. teach them what you've learned. don't look at them as immediate enemies.
The last time we came together as a country. It’s sad, but over 20 years later, in today’s US, seems Bin Laden ultimately got what he wanted. A United States that’s divided, and spiraling downward.
If only we could've hung on to that brief feeling of togetherness we felt after this.
I'll never forget the silence that overtook the city
And the silence of sports the rest of the week.
Wow. For New York, its eerily quiet.
Thank you for uploading this! Never forget!
I still can't believe people walked outside the day after!
A surefire way to remotely or even slightly get pulmonary issues...
For many, it was defiance at what was done. We weren’t going to be imprisoned in our own city.
They don't call it "city that never sleeps" for nothing
I can. Cowering in fear and paranoia is what terrorists want.
It's NYC lol
🙏🏽🕊 man if i lived in New York at this time,id have my head in the sky every 5 seconds being so nervous. I was only in second grade at the time now im 30 and it still is painful and sureal knowing that day happened.
This is exactly how I felt living there. I was 9 at the time, living just across the river in Hoboken, saw the sky go from clear blue to black in what felt like an instant, and the paranoia didn't leave me for a while. It's no problem now, but for a long time, hearing a plane overhead made my heart skip a beat.
@@trashcrow 🙏🏽😢fr,thats what it felt like. And for me being in cali,it was a fear of are we next and etc.
Yup that’s was me..and to top it off I lived in a twin tower building in Brooklyn ny & at the time I was thinking what if they after all twin tower buildings😩
I lived in Southern Jersey, near Atlantic City, and we had an Air Force base 5 minutes from my house. Toy could hear the jersey firing up all day and all night in the days following 9/11. It was kinda scary, and my kids at the time were so young and would get so scared every time they heard that extremely loud noise, and it would make our house rumble.
My grandparents told me that when this happened i was outside in the backyard and I said "why is it so quiet"
No planes in the sky at all
The birds even were being quiet
My mother says the same thing. My house is underneath the start to an approach for an airport in CT, and we get planes flying by all the time. According to her, that day, she didn’t hear a thing in the air. Plus, I think I recall ash from the wreckage actually coming down in my yard days or weeks after the attack. For context, I was seven years old that day, and I grew up in greater Hartford, almost exactly 100 miles away and upwind in the jet stream from lower Manhattan.
yeah it was eerie. I live half the country away but right after it there was this eerie stillness. I was at an open window and the air was stale and no sounds at all outside on a late summer day which is very odd. I go outside and it's same. trying to explain that to people they would think you were crazy. it was like all the air had been sucked out of us. everything was a haze for weeks.
There's a reason why most birds in fairy tales respect the dead.
@TaccRaccoon, I lived in New York then. Two weeks prior, I was parked on Church Street across from The WTC. There was a Century 21/Burlington Coat Factory there from memory. I kept looking across at the complex because I had a very uneasy feeling and premonition and realize much later there were no pigeons flying around like there always was. I kept looking across the street at the complex and didn’t know exactly what made me feel uneasy.
Well, birds start migrating this time of year... 🤷
Every time I watch an old video of anything I start thinking about every person that has passed away since. In my small social world I know at least 50 people and it's probably way more than that.
Same here, especially when I see the older people in these recordings.
im so happy im not alone when I see a video like this, everyone is living their own very different lives and here, everything changed, everyone came from a same tragic experience is so surreal to me.
Surreal.. feels like walking through a mall in the 80’s, early in the morning before all the stores opened, just a handful of people of what would be a great crowd of shoppers.
or like walking through any mall in the 2020's, unfortunately...
I was at work in the preschool I worked at. The director yelled bring the kids inside!!!! We all came inside from recess and could not believe what was happing!!
23 years already!!! Wow. God bless everyone
Thank you for uploading this my dude.
I can feel the sadness of this day through the screen 😟
TH-cam is the BEST time capsule
As a UPS driver I suspected that 9/12/01 would've been a business-as-usual type of day even given the horrific events of the prior day. And at 6:40 in this video my suspicions were confirmed! Looks like there might've been a driver supervisor with the driver that day, probably all hands on deck to bring everyone in early.
What a beautiful video. Thanks, Vampire Robot.
I could imagine there were probably a few businesses that were deemed necessary enough to be opened.
Pharmacies, people still need their prescriptions.
Grocery stores
And home improvement stores. People needed air filters for their homes, cleaning supplies, masks, etc.
@@stacyk123I do wonder what businesses were allowed to remain open in NYC following this tragic disaster.
@@biker5662 I wouldn't think many more than I just listed. The absolute necessities.
Prescriptions, groceries, and home improvement/repair supplies (cleaning supplies, air filters, masks, etc)
So strange seeing the streets empty and so quiet. What a tragedy.
i went to disneyland with my Dad and brother on this day. Nobody was there. Rode every ride. My dad knew how to make the best of even the darkest times.
To those we lost that day, You are not and will not or ever be forgotten.
I was 12. I’ll remember it like it was yesterday 💔
Thank you for posting this: we need to remember this day, too. Because it was day one of our new normal.
Even where I lived about 2000 miles away you can feel the depression from every one after 9/11
Yes. I was in TX at that time, and there was a great sobriety and solemnity amongst all.
My parents lived in Toronto and they said everyone in the city was greatly affected by this even though it wasn’t in our country
Born, raised, Morningside Heights. Was at college in Connecticut. Family still in Manhattan in shock. Stayed away from the city for 2 weeks. Arrived by train. Went to a boxing match w my dad in the Garden that Friday. Strange feeling. Saw some friends that weekend. You couldn’t escape what happened. Just strange feelings everywhere.
Thank you for uploading this. RIP 9/11 Angels. Sorry got what happened to you guys. I mourn you all every day not just today. This situation traumatized me as a child. I still never healed from this event mentally. I’m scared of elevators at 35 years old because this situation triggered the phobia. I was 11 watching on tv. Hey did anyone notice Mariah Carey in the back 05:13 her Glitter album released Sept 11
She's from Long Island.
Yeah and the movie was released the same day. Needless to say, it tanked.
@@normairizarryni She made a movie? Lady Gaga is smarter.
@@ManChan-w5p yes, the poster that you see is for her movie “Glitter.” Also, I like both singers.
Watching this 23 years later from Germany, this still makes me cry.
I just know you kept this one on ice until today.
You can feel the sadness in the air in a way. It's haunting and heartbreaking.
Yes 😢
I was 19 years old.
Even over here on the other side of the world in Australia it was a very quiet day.
The bus trip on the way to my class the next day was quiet, we were listening to the bus driver's portable radio.
The same happened here in Colombia South América.
I just turned 45 a week ago. I was only 22 when this happened, but I remember the entire day like it was yesterday. My Godfather, who lives in lower Manhattan, watched the whole thing from his balcony. I spent all day trying to reach him to make sure he was okay. Crazy how time flies.
I was also 22 and finishing up college when this tragedy occurred. I'll be turning 46 in November.
September 11th, 2001 was the date that we were aggresively pushed into the 2000s and War On Terror.
I wasn't born, then. But my dad tells me that the entire United States changed after that day, and not for better. Innocence and innocents were killed, he said to me.
I feel deeply sorry for those who lost family members, then.
It was the turning point. My wife and I remember the 90s. This is a far cry from then
As a proud Queens resident who was 8 years old on 9/11 and had moved to the Midwest 3 months before, I will never forget the last time I saw the WTC in person.
It's mind boggling that it's 20+ years ago. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I couldn't get through all of this. But thank you!
I was 10. I remember the haze sticking around for so long afterward
I was about that same age. The sky wasn't clear again like it was that morning for months. My mom worked in another Trade Center plaza building, and every day for years, she would come home from work and her dark red car had turned a sickly beige from the dust.
@@trashcrowFour and 1/2 months the site burned and you could smell the burnt wires scent that got into my pillow case when the wind changed.
@@OSTARAEB4 oh goodness, yeah, I've never smelled anything else like that air in my life, but I can still remember exactly what it smelled like when I think about it. Asbestos, ash, concrete dust, and metal.
@@trashcrow Exactly!
For a few short weeks, we were neither liberals nor conservatives; Republicans nor Democrats. We were ALL Americans.
Yeah and then it was back to business as usual
@@idna90it went fully back to normal 6 months later
@@Frankieefootballmundialthe moment that America was forever divided...in ways worse than ever.
SURE BECAUSE GOVT NEEDED HELP SO THEY ACTED ALL NICEY NICE TO GET AID FROM THE OPPOSITE PARTY
100%. But today? There would be masses of people waving Palestine flags celebrating it.
R.I.P. to those who died on 9/11, 23 years ago. This is their Memorial Day. I was 4 years old and already started pre-K.
🙏🏽🕊
There's no rest for the wicked.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48??
Very interesting video. The day after. I don't know if I ever really thought about the perspective and what the vibe would've been like around there at that time.
We didnt know it at the time but the world we grew up in was gone after that day.
And became better because now we had the PS2, PSP, MP3, best music, best films, best cartoons, best comics, best videogames, best TV shows.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 No. just no.
@@Indiana_Jones-Z History says so.
@@TheMasterofDisaster48 just stop….
@@pabloescobarschanclas Truth hurts I know.
I was in Paris that day as a tourist. Lots of shops had signs outside saying that any American's who wanted to phone home to check in on family could use their phone. A week later at a train station in the south of France i met an English family who asked if something big had happened, they had heard something was up. The world before smartphones!
I love this Time Machine of a channel. Where has the time gone!
I was 11 years old and in 6th grade when 9/11 happened. My dad hadn’t been retired from the army a year and I remember being terrified that the government would call him back to go to war.
I was 15. My dad was in the reserves and got activated. There was a high chance that he would have to go to the war, but he didn't have to go. He did get deployed for a year to another state, though.
People still look pretty much the same. Style hasn't changed much at all. Yet in 2001, if you were watching a 23 year old video, you would be watching something from 1978 and people would look drastically different.
Maybe the common people as they don't care as much about looks would put any old thing any shirt, a single pair of pants and go out, and especially the day after 9/11 I'm assuming they cared even less about how they looked.
But when you look at celebrities, singers, all types of people that for some reason or the other HAD to care about their looks and the newest trends did look incredibly different from today.
That really does show how much style has changed
How many Things were different in 2001?
Skinny jeans, super low, very thin eyebrows, the makeup is all different, the hair is all different
Just look at Christina Aguilera or Paris Hilton from the time and you'll see what I mean
Nobody ever looks like that today
Everything has changed a lot
Even in the 70's, you'd be very surprised to see how normal the common people walking on the streets would look.
Because people who don't have time or will, or after a traumatic event, who are just gonna go get some milk at a grocery store, aren't gonna look like Cher in the 70's, they also would just wear a normal shirt, a normal pair of pants, and just be out doing their simple business, and if the camera quality was really good like nowadays, and so the audio recording, I can assure you even in 1978 the common people would look pretty much like today
@maikopasma9176 I appreciate your thoughts on this as it's something I think about a lot. Skinny jeans aren't a distinctive enough trend to the point where someone would look odd wearing them today. And I don't see the hair or makeup all that different. Thinking about still photographs, you could take one random picture from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80, and 90s and easily tell what decade it's from. Sometimes even what half of the decade it's from. But any still photo from the year 2000 onward could pretty much have been taken in any year since. I've watched music videos from songs I like not even realizing that it's a 15 year old video.
@@1w72stWell, since covid19 time (2019-2022) Nostalgia time from these decades: 80's 90's,2.000's we're the tendency and still does, that's reason why it looks kind of the same in fashion.
I think you are completely correct. And yes, as has been pointed out, if you watch a music video or some other thing that by definition had to be “ trendy” or current from the year 2001, there are some stylistic differences that you could point to that date the video. But for the most part, the huge stylistic differences that defined the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s 80’s and early 90’s , started evaporating in the late 90’s right around the same time the internet started catching on, and are almost completely gone now. I personally could not tell the difference between a photo taken in 2001, 2011, or 2021 (unless someone had their phone out)
@@maikopasma9176 common people in normal clothes still had distinct, period specific looks in the 50’s , 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. It wasn’t just celebrities and fashion models. That just doesn’t exist now and I would argue started happening in the late 90’s around the time the internet started taking off. And the reason for this, in short, is that the internet killed the monoculture. A common pop culture is what creates fads, trends, and fashion. When everyone can exist in their own bubble culture wise, then there can be no commonality from which a distinct, period specific aesthetic can arise.
I went to the WTC to attend the last 9/11 ceremony. I can tell that seeing in person the relatives of the victims and watching the pictures of the victims themselves, many of whom really young, made me feel the same sadness I felt in 2001.
What year was that?
I've heard someone say that many taxi drivers gave free rides for people who was trying to find family members, friends etc.
They took them everywhere they wanted to go and look.
Such a beautiful thing to do.
I believe there were still few remaining survivors stuck under all that rubble during that time
I hope this videos never get taken down
One thing I definitely remember about the day after the attack was how quiet it was at school (I was in the 3rd grade in Jersey City at the time). Everyone was emotionally drained.
That man’s face at barnes and noble…I just wanted to hug him he looked so broken that a simple place of comfort was denied on a day of mourning
23 years. Never forget. 🙏🙏
Excellent perspective with this video. A grim reminder of that horrible event
What a difference a day makes
I was 5 years old in Connecticut when this was recorded. This is such good quality of after 9/11. Amazing video, truly time traveling. 🙏🙏
I was in Connecticut too. Born and raised in Manhattan but on my Senior year at UConn when it happened.
I remember waking up and seeing this on the tv. I was in my early 20’s working at a restaurant. I went to work and we had tvs and all the customers that day were silent and in shock and still processing what happened that day. It was a weird eerie feeling like no other. Which was different back then you would talk and have conversation with your regulars. The only thing that was understood that day was the historical moment.
I lived in the East Village during this time, it was, until the recent lockdowns, the most surreal experience of my life.
This was way more surreal than them bs lockdowns they did such though
I remember this very clearly. The mood felt like we were all waking up from a nightmare and the mood in the city was extremely somber the day after with everyone going out to donate blood and looking for missing loved one who were most likely dead.
NY collectively went through the five stages of grief that time. everyone was still in disbelief and mourning here, but soon after, anger started seeping in.
So eerie! And everyone was so bewildered.
It wasn’t just New York that was bewildered and shocked. It was America.
This is so, so eerie. People walking around and going about their day, business as usual, but it's just not the same for any of them.
I remember reading that so much blood was donated that most of it had to be thrown out. No one could use it because no one really needed it.
I had just turned 26 and was getting ready for work and my dad called from work letting us all know what was going on. My thoughts and prayers still go out to all the families of this horrible event.
It’s weird to see the empty or sparsely-populated streets. Even streets that have a relatively normal amount of activity seem so quiet.
Literally transitioning between the 90s to the 2000s
I was...a baby during this time, I learned about in school around 4th grade, R.i.p to the ones who could not have made it to this day, insane how this happened so many years ago, 9/11 was for sure a troubling time for many, It's terrible.......To those who had lost their family, their lover,friend you have my sympathy.....🙏🏾🕊🕊
One thing people would say was, “never forget”. I don’t hear that anymore.
What an absolutely surreal time to experience. Even though I was halfway across the country and knew no one lost that day, there was a very real feeling of loss and sadness. That feeling was quickly replaced with an overwhelming sense of pride and patriotism for America that's hard to describe. It's something you'll only know if you were alive during that time, but I've never felt that way again.
Life goes on, everything's changed, but life goes on. It's so quiet. 😞 My most sincere condolences to everyone who lost someone.❤❤
Glad to see a video showing NYC on "The Day After." Too little attention is paid to the eerie and melancholy feeling that pervaded the city for months following the attacks; emotions were on high, Manhattan below Canal Street reeked of a potent acrid odor, the unknown loomed large and omnipresent, and New Yorkers were still trying to process the tragedy.
This is a fascinating watch
The silence is deafening.
My dad visited NYC just a little after two weeks after 9-11-2001 and went and saw ground zero and he said the debris were “still smoldering” even after 2 weeks after the buildings came down.. he took pictures on a disposable camera being they didn’t have smartphones back then and the pictures are jaw dropping.. 😢😢 rip to all those who died on the horrific day 🙏🏽🕊️🪦
Watching this, I can really see how the soul of the city has been ripped out of its very core by the events of the previous day! It's so sad as you can see the small number of people that have ventured out have lost that New York spark and ambitious drive they had prior to the attacks.
Life moves on..
Sadly...😔
It doesn't feel like NYC without the cars honking their horns and loud talking
Why does the world still seem better on that day vs the present day 😢
Because this was before social media brainrot.
In 2001, people would watch old VHS tapes of 1978 and claim it was a better time. This is the cycle of nostalgia.
Not really, this looks super depressing ngl. The world changed big time after 9/11..
@@MichaelGeorge161I agree
one of my best friends was born on this day. thanks for sharing ♥