RARE Photos of the Twin Towers...

[@ryanjefferies2788]

0:40 "Maybe a library down there" The sign says "Borders"...

[@dang7716]

He isn't the smartest youtuber

[@LaViejaLinda]

Bookstore 🙃

[@LaVictoireEstLaVie]

Yup, Borders (Books and Music), the once upon a time , rival of Barnes and Noble

[@sanjh6085]

The Library you mentioned was Borders book store. The book store was located right near the underground Subway station. I used to take the E train to the World Trade Center, the last stop for the train. Then i would walk through the underground mall to get to work at 2 WTC

[@pinlight97]

It’s pretty basic info…I live in Canada where we don’t even have/never had Borders and even I know it’s a bookstore. Never made it to NYC still-was supposed to go there that September because 2001 had already been awful for me. Instead I watched plane after plane loop over my head to land at Toronto. We had that same super-blue sky that day.

[@wednesdaytheblackcat7385]

@@pinlight97 Yeah. He was being lazy. Don’t publish without getting your facts straight.

[@kit.e6864]

yeah it says border's customer service right there

[@MatthewRausch-p6i]

0:35 That's Borders! It was a book store that went bankrupt around 2006/2007. Sort of like Barnes and Noble. It wasn't just a library.

[@katakisLives]

I used to buy CD's in Borders

[@robvaca7311]

Thank You so much for making these videos that serve as a reminder of how different the area used to be. I miss the skyline that I grew up with that represented a time when the world wasn't so crazy, and this city was a wild & fun thriving place to be. Sure there was still violent crime before 9/11 but nowhere near the daily magnitude and chaos you see today. I lived and grew up here all my life and I don't see this town ever going back to the exciting times that existed during the 70's, 80's and 90's of the 20th Century anytime soon. So many businesses gone and way of life for many only kept alive through memories. These videos and photos should serve us all as a reminder of how we as humans interacted with each other before the internet eventually send us all living in private cocoons.

[@briannaw716]

Its so weird that these two iconic buildings dont have a shit load of interior photos. Ive always wanted to visit the twin towers as a kid after my grandma told me how tall they are in person. I was 10 going on 11 when 9/11 happened so it really hurt me that i never got a chance to go to ny and see them. I still never been to NY yet and the crazy thing is im only 6 hours away from NY. Id at least like to visit the statue of liberty, uptown, the 9/11 museum and the mall that's connected to the subway.

[@RyanWiseman-zs3ee]

Digital photography was in its infancy then. You really had to have a reason for wasting one of the 24 pictures on an average roll of film. Nobody had cameras on phones either, so you had to commit to carrying around a camera. How often do people take inside pictures of office buildings, even with today’s picture heavy world?

[@thomasbrunn4182]

@@RyanWiseman-zs3ee please people were taken pictures in the 40s

[@Wheels-Wheels-Wheels]

The most stunning photos I've ever seen showing the WTC.

[@JohnBrown-gm1yc]

These videos are amazing. Putting photos in one spot gives people a reason to keep coming back to this. The memories will never go away as long as we have this.

[@permverse6668]

Not gonna lie, at 6:35 when we see from floor 107 etc i find it really, really eerie these pictures feel like a graveyard to me looking at people final resting place in a way the last moments of there life was spent in these rooms and hallways knowing the panic and worry they was experiencing was all happening there. Being able to see what their pov was looking outside. Really sad.

[@jewllake]

@ 2:47 that was the overhang at the lobby of the North Tower where many of the innocent victims plummeted to their death after falling or jumping. When they hit it - that was the crashing sounds you heard.

[@Disco_opp420]

Unfortunately that came to my mind when I saw that one, very poignant of the tragedy we saw that day, just so horrifying total shock x

[@carter3369]

It was covered in bodies, I’ve seen pictures. It was horrific.

[@Jayfinance92]

It's called a canopy! In the naudet Brothers video! You could hear the smash and the cheif firefighter looks up in shock as he hears it. Yes it was the bodies hitting the canopy.

[@pinlight97]

The higher quality shots are film prints that have been digitally scanned at a high resolution. Jpegs in particular degrade when saved repeatedly. The quality on those shots are exactly what film prints were like: digital is much improved but for years I would have to ‘shop contrast and depth in to make it film quality.

[@kalodont1916]

4:45. This is the Deutsche Bank Building elevated plaza which was completely destroyed by the South Tower collapse. The building itself suffered so much damage that it had to be demolished later on as the damage was beyond repair. It was a 39-story building. You can look it up at Wikipedia.

[@djm5k]

The photo you say is a library was actually a Border’s bookstore. If you look at the hanging Customer Service sign, the smaller text above says “Borders”. It is amazing as compared to this current day and age how dated the architecture of the twin towers were. I would have thought if the towers were still around today, if they would have been totally renovated and updated to today’s building standards. Or maybe they would have been demolished by now and new buildings in their places. However, the 911 event was a wake up call for the US to be more aware of these kinds of events as well as making large buildings safer for occupants. There was also a previous blast deep in the underground parking area of one of the towers back in 1996 or so. Not sure if that served as a wake-up call to make the buildings safer for occupants.

[@ThyPandora]

It was bombed in 1993. Seven people died. It was bombed in the parking garage to topple one tower into another. Failed.

[@canislatrans8285]

I doubt they would have removed the buildings as a remodel lol. In fact they might have even kept some stuff intact from when it was originally built. Everyone likes vintage anything. Even those ugly as hell 1960's buildings still around. If it has any historic merit, people like to keep it.

[@pinlight97]

It was a wake up call in 1993. In fact, quite ironically, the reinforcements made in the area where that bombing took place were right beneath the one spot in the Marriott that remained standing. That allowed a group of firefighters and civilians to survive the collapse of both towers. The stairwells were also made safer (still not to city code as that would have actually meant additional stairwells) but luminescent strips and other measures to make them more navigable than they were in ‘93. Those improvements saved thousands as the evacuation was considerably faster on 9/11.

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

@@ThyPandora Six people.

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

I remember I was looking forward to September 11, 2001 in part because Bob Dylan's '"Love and Theft"' came out that day. I can just imagine Borders employees unpacking Dylan's new CD and talking about the day ahead and thinking that the Baby Boomers in the Twin Towers offices might come along at lunchtime to buy the new Dylan CD, but not much else to look forward to.

[@texasborn2720]

0:39 "Library" ? How old are you ? 😂 That is "Boarders Book Store" was once a very popular book store. That went out of business in 2011.

[@allaboutloveatyutoob2507]

It wasn't a horrible design, if you were living in 1973 you would have thought it was stunningly modern and state of the art. It was just a bit old by 2001 thats all

[@ricolantern]

Old? I wish I could've got to see these buildings in person for myself... I was born a little over a month after their last day, so I would never get the chance. To this day, even recently learning about the exact events, I get an oddly nostalgic and warm feeling accompanied with awe whenever I see them. The new building doesn't compare in the slightest.

[@Lilgoth89]

1.16 This is taken from edge of the stepped roof of the marriott hotel, the same place as was captured in the previous photo, looking South across liberty street, that building with the planters on is at the foot of the Deutsche Bank Building ( which incidentally would make a good video topic as it was so heavily damaged with a large panel from the south tower embedded in its facade and eventually was condemned but is seldom mentioned in videos of the disaster )

[@Disco_opp420]

Thank you that was very interesting x

[@TheTruthWillSetYouFreexx]

2:52 everytime I see that awning I just remember the footage from inside the tower ,there’s a couple loud booms that confuse the firefighters in command on the 1st floor. I’m sure they thought they were explosions yet they were people jumping or falling

[@AdriaStaley]

At 8:20 it is giving 80s-90s Wendys sunroom vibes.

[@TheKevinNewsom]

Nice reference.

[@ILoveQazaqstan]

Kinda partially gives me the vibe of Terminal D departure lanes at IAH a bit

[@someguy9778]

Buger King

[@CBBC435]

Dennys

[@chrisroberts7638]

As a Gen X'er and very appreciative of 1970's Gothic Brutalist architecture I actually liked the style of WTC 4, 5 and 6. They were impressive (yes - they were I have to agree very rooted in their time period - but ugly? ) The 1983 movie "Trading Places" had a famous scene that was filmed in the Commodities Exchange which was located in the upper floors of WTC 4. The upper part of the South Tower leaned to the east as it collapsed and flattened WTC 4 - Some of the first photos taken after the towers collapsed show the small part of WTC 4 that remained as well as 5 and 6 engulfed in fire... At the time was surprised that falling debris could set the lower buildings ablaze...

[@vibrantgleam]

I can't help but get eerie vibes when I look at these photos. But these people didn't know it was gonna happen.

[@GameJoe]

"that's a bug on a window" luckily he told us, I couldn't make any out of it.

[@scratchpad7954]

Seeing the snow on the rooves of the Twin Towers reminded me of a weird and very liminal dream I had once when I was a little kid after I watched The Day After Tomorrow, close to the time it came out on DVD. In it, I was quite a bit older than I was at the time, approximately as old as I am now (27 years old at the time of writing this), working in the office of an unspecified company in one of the main buildings. I would say I was working somewhere in the middle section of either the North or South Tower, between the lower sky lobby on the 44th floor and the upper sky lobby on the 78th floor, with a direct line of sight to a drinking fountain on that floor. Being a kid in real life at the time of the dream, I would have had the mind of a child trapped in the body of an adult, so there is a better than 95% chance I would have gotten caught surfing websites for children on company time. I remember looking outside through a window near my cubicle and saw a moderate snowfall, which is not at all unusual for the climate of New York City in the winter, though it was unseasonably cold. It was probably an alternate recollection of the scene in the library after the rising ocean floods Manhattan and the people are considering evacuating after the time has already come and gone to do so. However, the storm in the dream was probably a textbook example of a nor'easter, though the tropical storm force winds would have caused the building to sway, seen in my beverage tumbler and switch chain of my desktop lamp vibrating on my desk.

[@richardcullins7869]

Im not 100% sure what it is your talking about. Im sure its my fault, i didnt dig into previous comments/dialogue that led up to your need to share a dream u had. I appreciate that story, and I mean this with no attempt to offend u or be mean but this might be a chance to learn something about life. George Carlin RIP was an insightful comedian who taught us some wise things to consider- for example: "dont tell anyone about the dreams you have, bc no one gives a shit." Take that how u will but i bet that in time you will umderstand how true that actually is. No one gives a shit about our dreams. Trying to help @scratch...

[@DugrozReports]

Myself plus 19 other people clicked "like," so it must not be too bad . . .

[@superboats2]

The first time I visited the Twin Towers was in the summer of 1987. There are some pictures of the things here, I didn't get to see when I was there. Thanks for sharing.

[@quintinsutphin6035]

4:40 Limp Bizkit filmed a video on that Heli Pad in 2001. Rollin was the video.

[@chicodelbodom]

The video was filmed in September 2000, that is, exactly one year before 9/11. In fact, one day before the attacks, the band received a letter of gratitude

[@MrHistoryBeast21]

0:40 is the Borders Bookstore and Cafe on 9/11 and it consisted of 3 floors; Concourse (Mall), Ground and the 2nd floor

[@kevintischer]

I love the rare photos you find for us

[@ArtMusicLife15]

Commuted through the WTC mall the night before the attacks. Gives me chills to see pictures of it.

[@chilledtea6614]

0:39 that was a borders bookstore

[@Techno-Universal]

3:20 I think this photo was used in a flash game known as Exit Path that was released in 2010. In the game it’s heavily edited to look like you are leaving a stadium onto a bridge over a river! :)

[@sharronunger7053]

Well done. Many pics I have never seen. Thank u

[@wednesdaytheblackcat7385]

At 0:29, that’s a Borders Bookstore. The word Borders (over the words customer services) should have given you a clue.

[@bakerlima6811]

Agree. I used to visit it during lunch breaks. It was located on the ground level and 2nd floor.

[@creamyalmondz]

Your photo at 1:15 is on the Marriott. If you check the prior photo, there is a leveled-ledge attached to the hotel. That is where that photo was taken.

[@jewllake]

@ 4:19 the man that was shinning down the tower might have been able to access the outer catwalk behind the façade at the mechanical rooms. Those had now windows.

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

#DepressedGinger: Just wanted to give you a quick warning: Be very careful with the photo from 4:45 to 4:50. Not sure if you were aware of this, but that's actually an infamous photo of debris from the second plane crashing into the South Tower. If you look at the bottom of the steps, you'll see a decapitated head!

[@AntonioMustang]

oh god.. i see it.

[@tony_m_km6mzp]

I zoomed in on that area and to me it looks like a bag or something like that.If it was a severed head, you would have seen blood pooling around the area.

[@Eliteshot135]

@@tony_m_km6mzp there is blood pooling around the area…

[@bill6255]

@tony_m_km6mzp ​ EDIT: I looked in 1080p and it does look like a bag or something. but it does look like there is blood pooling, but I can't make out any detail. Also considering that the height of the stair should be aporx 7" (if steps follow rise/over run standard) it would be the correct size to be a head. I wonder if DG has the high res version

[@AntonioMustang]

@@tony_m_km6mzp im not like a expert or whatever, but i think it just got decapitated and wasnt able to bleed out. its kinda like when you have a small wound and it bleeds alot but when you have a big one it doesnt bleed as much

[@TruxstonJones]

0:41 thats a borders bookstore which no longer exists. I’m guessing it’s that big black building by WTC

[@R32R38]

It was on the ground floor of WTC 5, located on the NE corner of the site at the intersection of Vesey and Church streets. It suffered the least damage of all the WTC buildings and probably could have been repaired if there was any inclination to do so.

[@randomizedartman00]

4:47 dude is that a head on the bottom of the stairs

[@kateofone]

Yeah that is what I see too

[@antonchigurh3794]

I first saw this picture about 15 years ago. I think that is exactly what it is.

[@davidreynolds3709]

No

[@cinnamonsparkle100]

1:50 I love how the Marriott sign is reflected in the glass

[@Matthew_Rushton]

5:24 The glass building to the left of Brookfield Place did end up getting built but it's completely independent from the World Trade Center. It's 200 West Street, otherwise known as the Goldman Sachs Headquarters. It's 44 storeys tall and was built between 2005 and 2010

[@rico4you]

Min 6:35 elevator floor 107...to the left Indicates in case of Fire use stairs unless otherwise Indicated ..but who would have thought ...there were NO stairs available...🙏

[@ThyPandora]

Some of these buildings, do look brutal, but that's a product of the 1970s and the 1980s to an extent... buildings looked as if they were made with a chisel and file.

[@jameswillett7186]

As if they don't still construct HIDEOUS buildings today

[@chrisroberts7638]

That was the particular appeal of the Twin Towers (as well as the hotel, WTC 4, 5 and 6, and the whole underground "bathtub" that went down six levels below the concourse)- the chiseled silver and gray stark utilitarian architecture that was unique to its time. Besides being the tallest and having the highest floor count when they were built it was so amazing that each floor was an acre in size - even up to 110 (well including the below grade floors technically 116 or 117?) There was almost 4 million sq ft of office space in each tower and 2 million in the lower buildings. When the Sears (Willis) Tower surpassed the Twin Towers in height only 2 of the 9 "tubes" that make up the Willis Tower go to the uppermost floors; due to modern aesthetics supertall buildings today top out to "spires" and the highest floors are either technical service floors or small footprint offices... not a whole acre of spaces 1300 ft above ground level like the Twin Towers had.

[@jamescameron2490]

The bookstore appears be Borders Books.

[@bingobaz6402]

Great channel my friend. I never got a chance to ever visit the twin towers. I wished i had and had memories of it. So your channel is next best thing.

[@neerg63]

In the very last photo, how do you know all of those people in the lobby were conjugating? I know there were a lot of school trips to the WTC, but that seems like a really odd place to be doing intransitive activity en mass.

[@ironmanmachine]

0:39 is in the Boarder's book store in the mall. 1:20 looks to be the roof of one of the terraced sections of the Marriot you see in middle of the photo at 1:08.

[@jasonchesshir9551]

Borders was in the black building, WTC 5, on the 2nd floor facing Church St ( 6th Ave ).

[@MrDannyDetail]

8:50 "You can see all the people kind of conjugating..." I think you meant congregating.

[@marcneville42]

Those people are standing in line to go to the observation deck at the top of WTC2. The ticket counter was at one of the exterior corners. After purchasing tickets, the people would take an express elevator to the top.

[@jazzman92478]

How do you know they aren't at a conference on Verbs? LOLOL

[@federicotraeger2332]

I think 1:20 is the roof of the structure from the previous picture: 1:10.

[@dylanchadderton1]

Can you do a video of the elevators of 9/11, people being trapped inside them, free falling to the lobby as the cables were severed. I was alway terrified by that idea and I find it so interesting ✌️

[@BENSTER489]

Did this actually happen? I haven't ready any accounts of people being stuck in the elevators anywhere

[@spencer4359]

Yes there were over 90 elevators in each tower.

[@dylanchadderton1]

@@BENSTER489 I havent either but i always figured it had to be like a mathematical certainty that there had to be people in the elevators of both towers during the impacts. I watched this long youtube video about the innovation and challenges they faced with putting elevators in the towers and how the sky lobby system helped with that. There were 99 elevators in EACH tower. 198 total elevators. So with people getting into work i can't imagine there wasn't a single elevator (likely many) operating at the time of impact with people in them. Just something i always thought about, i have a fear (like im sure a lot of people do) of being trapped in an elevator, or even worse free falling to the ground.

[@dylanchadderton1]

@@spencer4359 yep 99 in each to be exact. Theres a great youtube doc about the elevator system in the old towers.

[@thomthumbe]

I dunno. When you consider that every elevator is built with mechanical “hooks” that automatically stop any free fall to occur. I mean, I’m not saying that elevator cars didn’t actually fall….because I honestly have never once heard this, and I’ve read a a good number of 9/11 books, articles etc. But, given this event was way different than any conceivable accident….who knows? Elevators are quite rigidly fool proof.

[@roccon4246]

The Borders bookstore was located at the base of 5 WTC

[@bennyfagor104]

8:21 - The image you shown was of 4 World Trade Center’s extension located on Liberty Street, Five World Trade Center didn’t have one. It was a secondary entrance to the Mall.

[@ScottyMania313]

I love your videos. It's cool to see these views that many haven't seen before. I hope to see buildings from other countries some day.

[@roberttorres4893]

@1:44 WTC 1 had flags temporary removed prior to 9/11 and were later returned to each country. Every photo of wtc1 any time of year always had flags displayed

[@nathanstroud2223]

7:38 "The architecture behind there on the wall almost looks like balls connected to the wall." *balls to the wall*

[@147waverly9]

I worked in WTC 2 and WTC 4 man i miss those buildings. I haven't been done to the site since 2001 . I was there on 9/11 but i just can't go down there it hurts too much

[@edwincamaro13]

Bro I love these videos man !!!!!!

[@Zickcermacity]

1:17 footage is from the top of the structure behind the traffic light visible at 1:09

[@Badvibesdude]

The photo at 4:47...pretty sure that's more than debris at the bottom of the stairs.

[@nunu_beee]

Some of these I had never seen before. Can anybody answer why there are so few photos of inside the towers? I know the average person likely didn't have a camera back then, but they stood for 3 decades, and you'd think there would be way more professional documentation of some of the offices and floors.

[@SebastianWittich]

There are multiple videos available showing the towers at the day before the attack. They are available on KZbin too

[@vibrantgleam]

That's probably why though. You couldn't just pull out a cellphone and take a picture. You actually had to have a decent working camera.

[@pinlight97]

Oh, we all had cameras back then but lots of folks had film cameras vs digital (which existed but the quality was poor and the storage was limited). This meant that we thought about photos we were taking. I’m sure there were/still are plenty of photos out there (eg prints) but most either don’t want to, can’t, or don’t see the point to uploading them here. I know my parents have pics they took of the plaza, underground mall, and with the twin towers behind them from the Empire State Building shot in late-August 2001 when they were there for the first time. Those were still at a photo store being developed on 9/11.

[@pinlight97]

And, hey, I was that young “nerd kid” that loved photography and did take pics of my workplaces. Still have those too…in one of those classic photo albums. 😂

[@kit.e6864]

probably tourists took the most pictures. so maybe pictures in a box somewhere, or on vhs tapes.

[@NYmomAdrienne3915]

Do you have or can you get pictures of Moran’s at World Financial, and restaurants like Gemelli’s and Greatest Bar on Earth and others in WTC besides Windows. I have so many memories but can’t find pictures Thanks if you can

[@toastynuggetzzz]

BROOO YOUR GROWING SO FAST UR MY FAV KZbinR RN!

[@TheRealDarkLordDuiker]

I was just thinking how fast he is growing He is the best I love the channel as I love to learn about 9/11 I am always looking and finding new things I didn't know about the world trade center

[@toastynuggetzzz]

same@@TheRealDarkLordDuiker

[@keyshawnscott12]

​@@toastynuggetzzz same here

[@UnrealPhantom]

Love these videos! Congrats on 100k!

[@Fields11]

The video length tho 💀💀 bro knew what he was doing 💀🙏

[@rat8356]

i wonder if on that day in new york if there were other emergencies not related to what was going on at the trade center in the area and if there was any firemen or police to respond since all of them were at the trade center?..was there looting going on elsewhere since all the cops were so distracted?

[@Xantylon74]

4:38 Both towers had Helipads of course. This was the south Helipad and on the north it was out of center because of the antenna etc.

[@loveandrockets4life]

8:50 Bro really said "conjugating" hahahahaha

[@marcneville42]

4:46 is a view of the initial debris that fell at the entrance to the Deutsche Bank building, aka "Bankers Trust Plaza." WTC 2 is seen across the street centre-left. This photo was made before anything collapsed. When WTC 2 collapsed, Deutsche Bank sustained severe damage to its façade and extensive contamination by the toxic dust. It was closed for several years, allowing mold and mildew to make things worse, and it was eventually demolished. A fire during the disassembly-style demolition killed two FDNY firemen in 2007.

[@flexinjoss4727]

running gag of video being 9:11 mins long 🔥🔥

[@SnarkyBear69]

my first twisted observation

[@RetroAnts_Retronima]

Same lol

[@minamccrea5661]

Erm actually it’s 9:10 minutes long🤓👆

[@ReganMason-x9y]

Thank you so much!! You are Golden. The TwinTowers should have been rebuilt.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I wonder if there are any photographs on the interior of the North Tower's (WTC1) 110th floor where all of the telecommunication electronics (Plus one or two TV studios IIRC) that connected to the aerials on top of the roof were held?

[@rockdisappeared9203]

At 13:57 of For Richer or Poorer (starring Kirstie Alley and Tim Allen (1997)) there’s a nice shot of the WTC. 😊

[@carrion_man3700]

@0:29 That's the Borders Books and Music on the 1st floor of 5 WTC. 5 WTC had a partial collapse in floors 4-9 and later was taken down as a total loss.

[@mymindseyesees2002]

People are nuts to want to go on roofs that high. Not me thank you

[@ikGREENY]

Dude…. The little white oddly shaped building in between the Marriott and Twin towers at 1:12 is the same one in the perspective shot at 1:17… The marriott was 22 stories and the roof would’ve been 23. It’s obviously not that…

[@JuiceGuy07]

You mention a building other than the diamond building that is probably never going to be built at 5:17. I'm fairly certain the diamond building is the only one in that schematic drawing that isn't already done, no?

[@JorgeBonilla-z4e]

0:31. Yes it is a book store it was a Borders books store u can see it on the top of the costumer service sifn

[@rickpinelli1586]

The last photo of the line of people was for the observation deck. I was in the Twin Tower almost everyday...

[@DuckOfRubber]

0:30 It was a Borders bookstore in the underground mall

[@TimNoel2]

Third photo was Borders Bookstore in what's left of the mall after the collapse.

[@veers2883]

4:37 - In Flight Simulator from 1998 it was place where you can start a flight with helicopter so it must be it, i just not remember why it was never used.

[@historywatchdog2923]

That was the Borders bookstore, just outside the entrance to 5 World Trade. You can see the display windows in a video of people evacuating from the basement and exiting out 5 World Trade Center.

[@MegaXtc11]

Could you find pictures of the 7 WTC lobby?

[@wisteela]

It's so sad to think that all this is gone.

[@MSTWNTED05]

Man I wish I could've been old enough before the towers fell to been able to take a tour of the world trade center. They were such marvels!!!

[@joeycalderwood9814]

I just realized most of your WTC videos are 9:11 in length…

[@smizzlecloud]

I think at 1:15 it’s not the roof on the very top but in they picture, I think it’s the roof on the side of the building

[@FreedomLovingLoyalist]

0:35 thats the bookstore is from 5 world, there are a couple of errie photograghs that would be concidered pretty liminal.

[@ahana7420]

Can u please make a video on what happened to the subway system below twin towers during the attacks

[@RogerBates7]

8:50 i don't think they were translating verbs... Perhaps the folks were "congregating" (con-gruh-gating) instead. 😆 Breaking chops, but thanks for the pics. Visited the south tower observatory on Christmas vacation week of 2000. Wish I could locate my pictures from that visit.

[@Beep_beep-pl7rd]

0:42 that’s a borders book store in the underground mall

[@scarletdragon1019]

Seeing these photos was amazing, when I was a kid I always dreamed of visiting NY and the WTC. My dream collapsed along with the towers. But hey, NY is huge, there is plenty to visit even though I haven't got the chance to visit NY

[@FarminwithBlake]

The man climbing down the building would of just needed to get down to about the 9th story, because at that point I believe ladder trucks would be in reach of him

[@michlo3393]

Nobody climbed down. That story is a myth.

[@Ilovechicago100]

@@michlo3393there is literally a video of a guy climbing down but lost his grip

[@michlo3393]

@@Ilovechicago100 Yeah, the dude with a rope, dangled himself down ONE FLOOR. That's it. I'm talking about the bullshit about some dude free climbing down the facade like 20 floors. Um no, never happened, wouldn't have happened. You think some trader in Italian loafers is gonna spider man down the side of a skyscraper?

[@-valmetal-]

⁠@@michlo3393there was a man that literally walked on rope to walk from one tower to the next and is still alive. what do you make of that? (don’t even try to say it didn’t happen either lmao)

[@michlo3393]

@-valmetal- He was a tight rope walker. It was a famous stunt. Slightly different than doing a Spiderman down a sheer glass/aluminum face in office attire. Which didn't happen BTW.

[@TheTruthWillSetYouFreexx]

0:38 the sign says “Boarders” which is a book store

[@theoriginalop]

The WTC heliport was the first selectable option available in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98s airport select list. It was definitely a helipad

[@NYmomAdrienne3915]

The Borders bookstore is what that picture is. It was on ground level. The entrance was on Church Street, I don’t remember if it was 2 floors and went into the mall, I don’t remember. I really just got coffee in the Borders

[@bjorklive2379]

At 4:48,that's a human body part right at the bottom of the stairs.

[@neerg63]

Is that... someone's head? That looks like a head with a face. I hope I'm wrong. 😢

[@bjorklive2379]

@@neerg63 I've seen another video where it was clearly pointed out as remains. It certainly.lokks like it,yes.

[@Dnetwork007]

probably a body part from a jumper

[@nycstarport8542]

In the late '70s, the Secret Service used to keep Presidential Limousines, in the garage at the WTC.

[@scootermann83]

Shen-dah-layer, I like that pronounciation of chandelier. I'm gonna use it in daily conversation now

[@misled1982]

Thats the BORDERS bookstore on 5 WTC ground level , next to the main entrance of the WTC

[@BeckyBat19]

The photo that looks like a library.. was a book store similar to Barnes and Noble, Walden books… called Borders. Most likely was in the underground mall area.

[@thewiseman80]

I think if the man who scaled down the towers made it down and the towers didnt fall the fdny probably would of had some kinda inflatible he could of jumped onto to jump safely down onto. but only if the towers didnt fall. I love the way the wild blue bar door handles represent a a western buffalo skull as well like those you seen in saloons, such a cool idea.

[@kalodont1916]

At 8:36 it's 4 WTC at Liberty & Church.