After the second plane hit, I realized I should be on my roof (21 stories up---with a panoramic view). Along with several others from my building, we watched in horror as this disaster progressed. After the first collapse, I had the camera unwaveringly pointed to the North Tower. This was the first picture of the collapse.
This 3D image was taken on the morning of 9/15/01 on Broadway near Dey Street. The workers were just taking a break. To see it in 3D you should use red/blue glasses. Red over left eye.
A photo of the Pentagon taken late afternoon on 9-11-2001.
The lower Manhattan skyline, with the 110 story World Trade Centers in the center, as seen from under the Brooklyn Bridge on April 22, 2001.
This is a photo of us all with the ground zero ramp behind us as people are walking off. Although the scene was depressing, we smiled for the camera in a higher appreciation for what we have and all we have to live for.
Picture taken on August 9, 2002 at the funeral of FDNY FF Thomas Casoria of Engine 22.
For 24 years I worked in the Navy Annex across the street from the Pentagon. The last time I was in the Pentagon was for a Frocking ceremony for one of my favorite Naval Aviators who had just made admiral. Jay Johnson, the Chief of Naval Operations at the time, invited me and another civilian from the Annex. We were always treated as members of the US Naval Aviation family. On September 11, 2001, I was working for the Office of Justice Programs where we gathered in the conference room to watch as the planes flew into the Twin Towers. While I was away from my desk, my daughter called from Vermont to tell me that she just heard about a plane crashing into the Pentagon. Her phone message was filled with tears, sorrow, and fear. I went to the prayer service at the Pentagon that Friday only to be turned away for security reasons. That's when I found my way to the top of a hill overlooking the damage done to our country's military fortress. The picture I was able to take is to honor all the people, civilians and military, I've known and loved all these years.
This at the WTC site the view is from standing on West St looking North East. It was taken on 9/15/01.
This photograph taken at night is of the building that became know as the LIBERTY STREET PROTEST. In fact as you can see the building lies on the south east corner of the World Trade Center/Ground Zero site. Overlooking the memorial plaques and area where most tourists and onlookers from around the world visit when they want to see the emptiness that is now Ground Zero and the WTC site, As well as pay their respects. Conceived by artist Glen E. Friedman to let people of the world know that New Yorkers, who live so close to the actual destruction of 9/11/01, do not agree with the War on Terror being waged in their name. The signs were installed in the summer of 2004, staying up through the Republican National Convention, when the largest protests and number of arrests for a political convention were ever recorded.
This is a picture of the Pentagon around noon on September 11, 2001, from a hill right outside my condominium building, which is about 3/4 mile from the Pentagon. I used a 500 mm lens. My office at the time was down the street, even closer to the Pentagon, when the plane hit. We heard jet engines, and then an explosion. Then came the fire engines. We saw people outside looking up. We went outside, and there was a huge cloud of roiling black smoke coming up from the direction of the Pentagon. (The view of the actual Pentagon building is blocked from that location by an elevated highway) debris was falling from the sky (perhaps it was blasted upwards in the explosion and was on its way down). Women were crying and screaming. The husband of a woman who worked in my office worked in the Pentagon and she was hysterical (he was not injured). We were told to evacuate away from the direction of the Pentagon and to hide our government badges. I walked to my car. Normally a five-minute drive, it took twenty-five. It was a scary, dream-like experience.
This is a view of the World Trade Center towers looking south from Seventh Avenue. The picture was taken in 1991 from 450 Seventh Avenue. I had just arrived several months before from Israel, and I loved seeing views of Manhattan from high up, especially the Towers
View from ferry to Statue of Liberty to WTC.
View from rear of Arlington National Cemetery of reconstruction of Pentagon
Photo taken in the middle of October, 2001 by Phil Brady with his now deseased wife Reinee Brady. The sunlight hitting the buildings and reflecting off the water reminded us that the light of those who have fallen will still shine on. May they rest in Eternal Peace in the Light of God!
The American Embassy in Berne, Switzerland, September 15th 2001