9/11: New York City in the Aftermath

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ray Victor is a lifelong New Yorker and tour guide from Queens. He remembers 11th of September 2001 vividly, when hijacked planes were flown into the World Trade Centre towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Virginia, and a site in Pennsylvania. Thousands were killed and injured. Ray remembers the missing posters, the hole that was left in the heart of the city, the destruction but also the humanity and the way his city came together.

In this episode, Dan visits Ground Zero with Ray as he shares personal stories and lesser-known facts about what happened that day and in the aftermath. They stop by the church where the NYFD coordinated their rescue, the bank where a little-known water rescue took place from Battery Park in which over half a million people were evacuated from the chaos by a flotilla of civilian vessels that rushed to their aid, a rescue bigger than Dunkirk. They finish at the reflection pools where the towers once stood and reflect on how this great city weathered the worst terror attack in history.

Ray offers a 9/11 History tour from ExperienceFirst. To find out more follow ExperienceFirst | Make the Most of Your Visit

This episode was produced by Mariana Des Forges, the audio editor was Dougal Patmore.

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1:01.0	He's now a licensed New York City guide and he took me around the site.
1:04.0	I actually haven't been back since 9-11.
1:07.0	We looked at the regeneration, we looked at the memorials,
1:11.0	and we talked about what it looked like 21 years ago.
1:14.0	The missing posters everywhere.
1:16.0	The gigantic hole that was left in the ground.
1:19.0	And we talked about the largest amphibious evacuation in history,
1:23.0	one that's been overlooked understandably as people try and come terms
1:27.0	to the horror of what happened that day.
1:30.0	This was recorded on location with Ray in New York Classroom.
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