The World Trade Center

Although, having been a young child and upstate resident at the time, I did not have to experience the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center firsthand, the incident has had a lasting moving effect on me. Throughout the years, I’ve learned enough and have been exposed to enough about the towers and the grim day in history, that I’ve been significantly emotionally impacted. It’s almost as if videos, school lessons, and personal stories have created and shaped a mock memory in my brain. Certainly this is drastically different than those who have developed post-traumatic stress disorder, or have lost friends, relatives, or loved ones because of the attacks, but it has caused me to take a definite interest in and passion for the history/events of the World Trade Center.

This post is meant to preserve the events that 2001 brought to the World Trade Center, while simultaneously addressing its rich past and bright future. Throughout its history as an international business center and landmark, the area grew, fell and regrew, which brought about a roller coaster of social and political attention. As a concerned citizen turned preservationist, I feel somewhat obligated to make known to a larger audience the tragedies and subsequent regrowth that this specific area experienced, and its connection to that larger audience. Now, as I go about my daily life in New York City, I’m significantly connected to the preceding state and potential triumph of the World Trade Center.