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In 1982, radio producer Lou Giansante recorded a number of interviews with people at the World Trade Center. This is the conversation he had with an Irish man.

Irving Simon, who owned a business on Radio Row, describes the fight to save the neighborhood.

Irving Simon introduces himself and gives a general description of Radio Row.

Irving Simon, who owned a radio store, tells how Radio Row got started.

Irving Simon, who owned a store on Radio Row, describes some of the unique characters who frequented the neighborhood.

Irving Simon, who owned a store on Radio Row, talks about the golden age of radio and TV.

In 1982, radio producer Lou Giansante recorded a number of interviews with people at the World Trade Center. Here, he speaks with an Israeli man.

Jaime Davidovich was an artist in residence at the World Views Program at the WTC in 2000. He describes his work – video pieces and stills – which incorporates everyday objects and views from his WTC studio with images of TVs. He talks about how his…

As a child Jake Nichols saw the WTC being built. His dad told him, These buildings will last 1,000 years. They will be here forever. As it turned out, he has outlived them. Nichols also rings a Tibetan bell in remembrance of a Tibetan prayer ceremony…

Singer James Hamilton describes We Will Overcome, a song he recorded as a memorial to 9/11.

Inspector James Luongo of the New York Police describes the scene at Ground Zero as he ran toward the towers, stood nearby, and then was forced to run away when the towers fell. Luongo would later be made head of the recovery effort at Fresh Kills…

James Pedersen, who lives two blocks south of Ground Zero, was engulfed in a dust cloud on 9/11 as he tried to leave the area. He remembers choking, the scream of his cat he had put in his backpack, and the neighbors running and screaming.

New York native Jan Polatschek, now living in Miami, used to commute over Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn. Polatscheck remembers the construction of the towers, especially the cranes that rose more than 110 stories.

Former WTC building stewardess Jane Selawach describes the uniforms they had to wear, the era those outfits represented, and how the job affected her outlook on life.

Former WTC building stewardess Jane Selawach talks about the speech she gave to visitors as the buildings were being constructed.

Janice Silversteen, a coin collector, went to the observation deck to use the penny pressing machine, which makes an elongated penny with the WTC on it.

On 9/11 Janice Stern, an office worker in Wall Street, walked home covered with dirt. She tried to reach her twin, who was in France, and received messages from her college-student daughter, who feared she had died.

Folk singer and songwriter Janis Ian, performing at the Twin Towers on August 1, 2001--just three weeks before the attacks--talks to the crowd and then plays an encore that now seems somewhat prescient.

Jazz pianist Jay D'Amico played at the Windows on the World bar from 1984 to 1993 and has released an album called From the Top.

Original song about my escape on 9/11 from Tower One, 73rd Floor where I worked as an engineer, and the tide of heroism and patriotism that swept the country in the months that followed. Entitled '8:48', it was created shortly after 9/11. The song…