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Tuesday, a Teenager's Song [Music]

Seventeen-year-old Katelyn Mueller wrote this song, Tuesday, three days after 9/11 to express what she and her friends were feeling at the time.

The Kleins' Messages, 9/11 [Voicemails]

Peter Klein, his wife Melody, and their son Noah saved their voicemails from 9/11. Melody and Noah were downtown when the attacks occurred.

A New York Everyman's Journal Part 2 [Archival Audio]

Elisa Karp's audio journal--a New York Everyman's journal--documents her experience at home on Manhattan's Upper East Side on September 11. She kept her tape recorder rolling as she made telephone calls and exchanged instant messages with friends…

A New York Everyman's Journal Part 3 [Archival Audio]

Elisa Karp's audio journal--a New York Everyman's journal--documents her experience at home on Manhattan's Upper East Side on September 11. She kept her tape recorder rolling as she made telephone calls and exchanged instant messages with friends…

A New York Everyman's Journal Part 4 [Archival Audio]

Elisa Karp's audio journal--a New York Everyman's journal--documents her experience at home on Manhattan's Upper East Side on September 11. She kept her tape recorder rolling as she made telephone calls and exchanged instant messages with friends…

World Trade Center at 5pm [Archival Audio]

The Sound of New York City is a CD put out by Logan Susnick in 2000. It includes ambient tracks from all over the city. Here you can listen to the WTC concourse atmosphere as the afternoon crowds leave work.

Tolling Bells & Sirens, 9/11 [Archival Audio]

Photographer Neil Selkirk taped the tolling of the bell at St. Luke's Church on 9/11. You can hear sirens wailing in the background.

A New York Symphony, WTC in the Morning [Archival Audio]

Tilman Reitzle had always been dazzled by the sights and sounds of rush hour at the WTC. Finally, on June 27, 1986--a Friday--he brought his SONY ProWalkman. That morning, he stood at the entrance and recorded this ambient noise. You can hear kids…

A New York Symphony, WTC in the Afternoon [Archival Audio]

Tilman Reitzle had always been dazzled by the sights and sounds of rush hour at the WTC. Finally, on June 27, 1986--a Friday--he brought his SONY ProWalkman. That afternoon, he recorded this ambient noise from the plaza beneath the towers and the…

A New York Symphony, WTC Street Vendors [Archival Audio]

Tilman Reitzle had always been dazzled by the sights and sounds of rush hour at the WTC. One Friday afternoon in 1986, he recorded this ambient noise from the plaza beneath the towers and the concourse inside the WTC, using his SONY ProWalkman. You…

A New York Symphony, WTC in the Evening [Archival Audio]

Tilman Reitzle had always been dazzled by the sights and sounds of rush hour at the WTC. Finally, on June 27, 1986--a Friday--he brought his SONY ProWalkman. That evening, he stood in the concourse near the turnstiles to the PATH train and recorded…

Mondo Lucien, Part 1 [Archival Music]

Lucien Samaha was a DJ at Windows on the World. He recorded the music and the sounds of the people at one of his weekly parties.

Mondo Lucien, Part 2 [Archival Audio]

Lucien Samaha was a DJ at Windows on the World. He recorded the crowd noise at one of his weekly parties.

Glee Club, Lower Manhattan [Music]

In the spring of 1999, Jerry Osterberg's glee club practiced one of their songs at the Trinity Church, just around the corner from the WTC.