From the Staten Island Ferry on a bitter-cold January day in 1986:

 

Here are some photos of mine that I took a couple of months prior to 9/11/01.  They are scanned pics so the quality is sub-par:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The view from the 110th floor observation level:

 

 

Wow Rob. The lighting of the Empire State Building is damn near perfect.

 

Great shots from both of you.

I'll chime in.

You can see the WTC sticking out on the left.  I was straining to get the Veranzo Straits bridge in focus with the south tip of Manhattan

My understanding is that this doesn't exist anymore.  :cry:

Both photos were taken at the end of February/begining of March in 2001.

I do have several other tourist/bad angle shots of the WTC, but evidently they are not online anymore (I sent them to someone handful of years ago, and thought they were online still)

nice ones. i had a whole slew of them i took one morning exactly one week before 9/11, but they were lost when i threw out my old computer (to be honest i think i did that on purpose).  :|

 

take a look at these pics. they are of the postcard memorial on staten island. very nice:

 

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/statenisland/northern/stgeorge/postcards/

 

 

 

 

 

 

^That's a very nice, simple memorial.

one more i saw online this evening that i liked:

 

 

 

The psychic impact of the loss of those building is evidence of evil genius in the universe.

 

I miss the world of September 10th in large part because of what we've allowed ourselves to become since the 11th.

 

I heard a bit on the radio today about how developers seized on federal reconstruction monies and reinvented Tribeca as a luxury loft playground for the super-rich; a hyper-accelerated gentrification that succeeded in wiping "home" off the map for a lot of people in a very short period of time.

 

Add that to the 40% or more of Americans who STILL believe that Saddam helped with the attacks, and there's plenty to be terrified about.

 

Nice pictures, by the way.

I miss the world of September 10th in large part because of what we've allowed ourselves to become since the 11th.

 

Amen, and quoted in the "Quotes" thread.

oh i dk it seems to me tribeca becoming a playground for the super rich is both a part of a general trend in the nabe over the years & a part of the real estate price boom in nyc in general, both independent of 9/11. however, i haven't heard that one before & nothing would surprise me. if you can find a link to that could you post it?

 

i found another: