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An anonymous Latino man talks about all the people from Latin America who worked the late shift at the WTC. He describes how the towers were filled with music while the overnight maintenance staff did their work.

Once the daytime workers had left the WTC and the evening rush was over, the late-night staff often tuned their radios to Latino stations. The music was one of the distinctive sounds to be heard there after hours.

Once the daytime workers had left the WTC and the evening rush was over, the late-night staff often tuned their radios to Latino stations. The music was one of the distinctive sounds to be heard there after hours.

Les Robertson, the head WTC engineer, talks about testing the buildings for sway and plays recordings in which you can hear the building creaking in the wind.

Local woman Lisa Barnett describes her 9/11 video. She had the camera focused on the view from her window while she called her husband to make sure he was all right. He had been on the PATH that morning. She also has footage of people running down…

For an interview on NPR's Fresh Air on September 21, 2001, the Director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Liz Thompson, talks about the council's role in encouraging the arts at the WTC. The LMCC offices were in 5 WTC, and a number of their…

Songwriter and teacher Liza DiSavino wrote a song on 9/11 about her experience of watching the towers from her New Jersey school 12 miles away.

Andy Stepon made these eerie-sounding recordings in December 2001. He was down next to the west side highway where the cranes were loading the WTC remains onto the barges to go to Staten Island. Andy used to stand and watch the scrap being hauled…

Lori Pike, a visitor from California, recalls the sound of the revolving doors at the WTC as a metaphor for energy of the city.

Folk music event director Lorne Clarke from Pennsylvania describes the blind songwriter Donna Hill, who sang about Dan Rather and the news.

Stephanie Brody Lederman was one of the artists whose work was exhibited in the mezzanine of the WTC in the 1980s. She describes fellow exhibitor Louise Nevelson's dramatic entrance at that art opening.

Author and professor Angus Kress Gillespie describes how Lower Manhattan is now a ghost town, having lost most of its businesses after the attack.

Lt. Luongo of the NYPD spoke at the Fresh Kills Closing Ceremony. The Staten Island landfill had already been scheduled to close when 9/11 happened. The workers of Fresh Kills rose to the challenge of hosting the largest police crime scene in…

Luke Davis watched the WTC fall from his home in Astoria, Queens. He calls in March 2002 to express his admiration of the Tribute in Light memorial that was visible at night.

Independent producer Ben Shapiro recorded this audio in a Chinatown Lumber yard. The men are loading wood to be made into emergency stretchers into a truck.

Lydia Robertson describes what happened on 9/11, when her mother, Valerie Hanna, was killed. A remarkable person, Valerie had many foster children. She worked her way up from welfare to become a senior VP of a large insurance company on the 97th…

Lydia Robertson talks about her mother, Valerie Hanna, who was killed on 9/11. The two women loved to sing together. Robertson has an old recording of them singing Christmas carols.

Lydia Robertson talks about her mother, Valerie Hanna, who was killed on 9/11. A remarkable person, Valerie had many foster children. She worked her way up from welfare to become a senior VP at a large insurance company on the 97th floor of the WTC.…

Lydia Robertson's mother, Valerie Hanna, worked on the 97th floor of 1 WTC and was one of the victims of 9/11. Lydia talks about her mother's life--she had 40 foster children and was a senior vice president at Marsh & McLennan Technology.

Kahnawake Mohawk Lynn Beauvais of Quebec talks about the members of the Kahnawake nation who built many buildings in NYC, including the WTC, and who also volunteered at Ground Zero.