This photograph was taken on the 26th of September, 2001. Firefighters struggle to extinguish fires at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York more than two weeks after the terror attack.
By Mike Rieger/FEMA News Photo
Tag Archives: New York
10th September 2001
These are stills from a video of a storm over New York, taken from the 92nd floor of One World Trade Center on the 10th of September, 2001 – the day before the terror attacks. The footage as filmed by artist Monika Bravo. X
110 Years Ago
July 1910: A newsboy and newsgirl sell papers around saloon entrances in Bowery, Manhattan, New York City.
1910 in New York saw the first public radio broadcast – live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci from the Metropolitan Opera House, and the second ever NAACP meeting.
The photograph was taken by Lewis Wickes Hine.
On this day: 4th of July in NYC
4th July 1918: The Untied States’ Independence Day is celebrated with a parade on New York City’s Fifth Avenue.
Behind the man marching is Cornelius Vanderbilt II House, on the corner of 57th Street, which was demolished in 1927 to build the Bergdorf Goodman department store
From the collection of the Library of Congress.
10th September 2001
These photographs, by David Officer and Peter Howard respectively, are of the World Trade Center in New York on the 10th of September, 2001 – the day before the terror attacks.
On this day: the WTC under construction
New York’s World Trade Center under construction, photographed on the 1st of May, 1971.
On this day: waiting for news on the Titanic
This photograph is stamped as being taken at 7am on the 19th of April, 1912. People form a crowd at Cunard’s Pier 54 in New York, possibly waiting for more news on what happened to the Titanic.
RMS Carpathia had arrived the evening before carrying the survivors of Titanic’s sinking. It is said around 40 000 people were waiting to see the ship arrive.
On this day 80 years ago
This image is of Manhattan, New York on the 26th of October, 1938. It shows 20th Street between Second and First Avenues.
While the USA marked the introduction of minimum wage laws that month, Nazis were marching into the Sudetenland and expanding the Nuremberg Laws to ban Jews from many public spaces, while the Imperial Japanese Army was overtaking Canton in China.
On this day…
English ballerina Margot Fonteyn, one of the only dancers in history to hold the title of Prima Ballerina Assoluta, is seen here in a photograph dated the 11th of October, 1949.
Fonteyn was dancing the opening night performance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House.
On this day: Ground Zero, NYC.
This photograph, from the 15th of September, 2001, shows a fireman calling for the help of ten more rescue officers at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center terror attacks in New York.
The image was taken by U.S. Navy photographer Preston Keres.
In Times Gone By... 
