By Vladimir Brezina
The Twin Towers, as they were.
All of these photos were taken in 2000 or earlier.
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 13 years…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged 9/11, Kayaking, Manhattan, New York City, New York Harbor, Twin Towers, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
Oh, all right… I can’t resist having a third go at this week’s Photo Challenge, Let There Be Light! (The first two responses were here and here.)
The Tribute in Light, seen on our Hidden Harbor Tour on September 10, 2013.
By Vladimir Brezina
Photos taken on yesterday’s Hidden Harbor Tour organized by the Working Harbor Committee. Many more photos to come!
Posted in New York City
Tagged 9/11, New York City, Photography, Tribute in Light, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Change.
A place of great change, sudden and gradual, catastrophic and constructive, individual and collective, visible all around—
—the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged 9/11, 9/11 Memorial, Change, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
The old World Trade Center…
It was the posters that finally made it real.
Everyone has a 9/11 story. Mine isn’t all that exceptional. I was in Midtown Manhattan that morning, preparing for a sales trip to New Jersey. I’d been awake since about 2 AM, working on a project for work.
… and the new World Trade Center
When the sirens first started, I didn’t think much of it. At least at first. But they kept going… and going… and going. Finally I looked out of the window and saw the column of smoke rising into the clear pale-blue air—and realized something serious was going on.
Then I turned on the TV and saw what everyone else did: the smoke, the helicopters, the collapse of the towers one by one.
Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Life, New York City, Society
Tagged 9/11, 9/11 Memorial, American History, Manhattan, Memoir, New York City, Photography, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
“The … most prominent landmarks, which can be seen for a long distance at sea, are the twin towers of the World Trade Center …”
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The individual photos are here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged 9/11, Kayaking, New York City, New York Harbor, Twin Towers, World Trade Center
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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