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At first, the events of September 11 seemed to be replaying a tragic accident that happened half a century earlier: On July 28, 1945 a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. A reporter broadcasts live and…

Guy Tozzoli tells of opposition to the building of the WTC by the management of the Empire State Building.

Songwriter Eric Douglas, who lost a friend in the WTC, wrote a song the day after 9/11. It's called If You Were Gone Today.

Eric Milano was a friend of firefighter Christopher Pickford, who was killed on 9/11. Milano made a tribute CD that includes songs he wrote for his friend and other memorial material.

Ernie Scott played piano regularly at Windows on the World at the WTC. He recalls being scared to approach the windows 10 feet behind his back where he played piano.

Pianist Ernie Scott used to play regularly at Windows on the World. In this recording from December 16, 2001, he plays the classic tune "New York, New York" and relives the moment of playing there.

Erwin Fry worked in 2 WTC for many years and remembers the building creaking on windy days.

Esteban wants to contribute some of his materials to the Sonic Memorial Project.

Sound editor and recordist Esther Regelson lives two blocks south of WTC. She has recorded ambient sounds and has also been interviewing neighbors about 9/11.

Romi Porrazzo's husband, a bank president who worked on the 60th floor of the north tower, escaped the building after the plane hit. He left a message at 8:48 telling of a massive explosion and saying that everyone was getting out.

WNYC's Amy Eddings in the studio plays sound from the site as people evacuate.

Jill Goodkind dropped off her children at P.S. 234 by the WTC just before she saw the plane crash.

Brooklyn resident Tim Gerken got voicemail from his cousin and watched the first tower fall from his roof.

Eva Garfield was house-sitting in the Village on September 11. In these voicemails saved by her boyfriend in Germany, she describes listening to the NPR news that day and how she stood on Greenwich Street and watched the towers fall.

Phillip Traugott plays the voicemail he received from his wife at 9:00 a.m. on September 11 as she was watching the towers from SoHo.

Faith Schwartz worked at the Recovery Project at Fresh Kills as a physician's assistant. She is proud of the workers who never complained about the uncomfortable conditions at the landfill, the decontamination process they have to go through even…

Faith Schwartz worked as a physician's assistant at the Recovery Project at Fresh Kills. She had just graduated before September 11. She never expected that her first job would be on the "garbage dump."

Faith Schwartz worked at the Recovery Project at Fresh Kills as a physician's assistant. She screened volunteers and workers to see who was fit to work in the hazardous conditions. She descibes her day to day routine and some of the reactions of the…

Former Building Stewardess, Sandy Austin Asbury talks about her FBI family.

Battalion 7 of the Fire Department of New York's radio transmissions as they make their way up the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. (Part 2)