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Nikki Stern, the wife of Jim Potorti, who was killed at the WTC, has a recording of him.

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.

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.

Radio producer Ginger Miles, who lives next to Ground Zero, has been making an audio diary. She talks about the confusion of reporting and experiencing the event.
With funding from the New York Council for Humanities.

Californian Victoria Slind-Flor recalls a 1992 trip to New York with her late husband, who had AIDS. They saw Philip Glass's opera, The Voyage, at the Met and then went to the WTC. It was a profound experience for both of them, and helped them come…

Mary Biffoni, a retired office worker from 7 WTC, recalls the toddlers on leashes outside the child care center in the building.

Jane Herschlag, the curator of readings at the West Side Y, has a recording of the readings program After 9/11

Brooklynite Hugh Klitzke saved the voicemails he received on 9/11.

Patrick, a native of Queens, recalls being a student and seeing the view of the Towers across the river. After he grew up, he was called to work at the WTC. He remembers that his toolcase had to be sniffed by a police dog on the way in.

Former downtown office worker Richard Penberthy remembers the fruit vendors at the WTC farmers market, the bustle of the annual orchid show, and the sound of drivers honking at the corner of Church Street.

Fred Abt, the former owner of Derf Radio on Hudson Street, knew merchants on Radio Row. He moved when the WTC was built, but his sons, Alan and Daniel, still have a business in New Rochelle.

John Rollins, the former publisher of Spin magazine, recalls the concert he put on with English techno band Spiritualized at Windows on the World.

A caller recommends talking to Bernard Goldstein, a radio executive who knew everyone down there on Radio Row.

Brooklyn native Tony Mattera talks about how he used to go early in the morning with his dad, who worked in the Washington Market and Radio Row area. He describes the world there and the shops.

Anthony Bruno, a ham radio operator from Massachusetts, talks about visiting Radio Row--which was on Cortlandt Street before the WTC was built--when he was a kid. He recommends the publication, Antique Radio Classified.

Kim Smith, a producer from Texas, has DAT tape of performance artists and poets taking part in an exhibit about September 11. She offers to collaborate.

Former PATH train rider Amy Rose Bloomfield recalls the eerie noises in the plaza that were caused by the wind going down the façades of the towers.

Caroline Smigocki found herself crying as she watched the WTC on 9/11. She then experienced a beautiful, typical New York City moment, when a stranger on the street advised her to get it together.

Pam Ritter talks about her husband, who worked in the WTC in the 1970s and used to measure the sway of the buildings.

North Carolinian Bobby Avery's son works as a chef a few blocks from the WTC. She plays the message she received from him on 9/11, in which he describes feeding hungry rescue workers.