Item 90895
Hiny photo category
WTC - Collapse
Onlookers
Hiny photo comment
View from my new New York
I was standing on the corner of Waverly and Mercer when the 2nd Tower went down. This picture is from only a few blocks south. I remember shouting "No! No! No!" and crying and holding onto my friend for dear life. I remember the glistening flickers of light off the pieces of the steel exoskeleton. There was no sound of the collapse where I was; I seem to recall that those pieces of metal glittered and fluttered like feathers. I was horrified by them; their prettiness was awful in the face of such obvious, abundant death. We all watched all those people be crushed. I have never forgotten it.
2002-09-12 00:25:26
I was standing on the corner of Waverly and Mercer when the 2nd Tower went down. This picture is from only a few blocks south. I remember shouting "No! No! No!" and crying and holding onto my friend for dear life. I remember the glistening flickers of light off the pieces of the steel exoskeleton. There was no sound of the collapse where I was; I seem to recall that those pieces of metal glittered and fluttered like feathers. I was horrified by them; their prettiness was awful in the face of such obvious, abundant death. We all watched all those people be crushed. I have never forgotten it.
2002-09-12 00:25:26
Hiny photo description
11 x 14 colorprint Crowd gathered on Prince and West Broadway watching smoke from remaining twer
Hiny photo submitted on
10/10/01
Source
digital image
Media Type
still image
Collection
Citation
“Item 90895,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed October 1, 2026, https://911.dev.chnm.gmu.edu/items/90895/.