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Brooklynite Hugh Klitzke saved the voicemails he received on 9/11.

Patrick, a native of Queens, recalls being a student and seeing the view of the Towers across the river. After he grew up, he was called to work at the WTC. He remembers that his toolcase had to be sniffed by a police dog on the way in.

Former downtown office worker Richard Penberthy remembers the fruit vendors at the WTC farmers market, the bustle of the annual orchid show, and the sound of drivers honking at the corner of Church Street.

Fred Abt, the former owner of Derf Radio on Hudson Street, knew merchants on Radio Row. He moved when the WTC was built, but his sons, Alan and Daniel, still have a business in New Rochelle.

John Rollins, the former publisher of Spin magazine, recalls the concert he put on with English techno band Spiritualized at Windows on the World.

A caller recommends talking to Bernard Goldstein, a radio executive who knew everyone down there on Radio Row.

Brooklyn native Tony Mattera talks about how he used to go early in the morning with his dad, who worked in the Washington Market and Radio Row area. He describes the world there and the shops.

Anthony Bruno, a ham radio operator from Massachusetts, talks about visiting Radio Row--which was on Cortlandt Street before the WTC was built--when he was a kid. He recommends the publication, Antique Radio Classified.

Kim Smith, a producer from Texas, has DAT tape of performance artists and poets taking part in an exhibit about September 11. She offers to collaborate.

Former PATH train rider Amy Rose Bloomfield recalls the eerie noises in the plaza that were caused by the wind going down the façades of the towers.

Caroline Smigocki found herself crying as she watched the WTC on 9/11. She then experienced a beautiful, typical New York City moment, when a stranger on the street advised her to get it together.

Pam Ritter talks about her husband, who worked in the WTC in the 1970s and used to measure the sway of the buildings.

North Carolinian Bobby Avery's son works as a chef a few blocks from the WTC. She plays the message she received from him on 9/11, in which he describes feeding hungry rescue workers.

Wickham Boyle, a journalist who lives 10 blocks from the WTC, heard the first plane fly over and saw the second one from her roof. She picked up her son and 12 of his friends from school while the towers fell. She has written a book, A Mother's…

New Yorker Suellen Epstein lives three blocks from the WTC and saved the telephone messages she received on 9/11.

Brooklyn resident Ralph Snemo's wife used to work at the WTC. He has video footage that he made in 1995 or 1996 of a concert in Austin J. Tobin plaza and in the elevator.

Katy Kirby, a TV producer for a news magazine, tells about the camera and soundmen shooting video on 9/11. She recommends trying to track down some of these stories and suggests the possibility of a collaboration.

Rich Costa was general manager of the observation deck at 2 WTC from 1996 to 1999. He has video footage of a corporate breakfast above the cloud line on the 107th floor.

The band Brother was scheduled for two concerts in Milwaukee on September 12, but the first one was cancelled. Band member Angus Richardson tells how the band spent the early part of the day jamming and writing the piece 911. The concert that took…

Edward Ioffreda's sister-in-law was at jury duty downtown on 9/11. The panicked voicemail message she left him about what she saw reminded him of the Hindenburg disaster.