Remembering September 11th through Images
Our Historic Image Archive highlights the history of the people and built environment of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, and New York City in general. Today we explore three of our nine collections that highlight the World Trade Center, the tragic events of 9/11, and the days and months that followed.
9/11 Tiles For America Collection — Memorial at Mulry Square
The 9/11 Tiles for America Memorial was one of the first permanent memorials dedicated to the events of September 11th, 2001. After the tragic events of that day, Greenwich Village resident Lorrie Veasey, owner and operator of Our Name is Mud ceramic studio, created tiles of American flags, doves, and angels and hung them on the chain-link fence surrounding Mulry Square, then a Metropolitan Transportation Authority parking lot. Her installation became a community message board to support the attack’s victims, and created a space for their loved ones to grieve, support, and comfort each other.
Click here to see more photos and read about the 9/11 Tiles for America Memorial.
Robert Fisch World Trade Center and 9/11 Collection
This impactful collection includes pre-9/11 images of the original World Trade Center, images of the 9/11 attacks upon the World Trade Center and their destruction, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan, various memorials of the World Trade Center and 9/11, and post-9/11 recovery and rebuilding. Many of the dramatic images of the 9/11 attacks and the World Trade Center’s destruction were taken from Greenwich Village, where Robert has long resided, and show the attacks unfolding from that perspective.
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9/11 Beverly Wallace Collection
Our largest single collection is the 9/11 Beverly Wallace Collection. The vast majority of the photos in the collection were taken by Beverly’s late husband Louis “Sonny” DeLuccy. Sonny supervised a repair team at the American Express building on Vesey Street from September 2001 through December 2002, working tirelessly through long hours in the dust and debris. Sonny DeLuccy succumbed to lung cancer in 2004. These photos are some of the best examples of their kind documenting the cleanup following 9/11 from the point of view of a worker on site.
Click here to see the entire 9/11 Beverly Wallace Collection. Read more about Sonny DeLuccy and the image collection here.
View our entire historic image archive, which includes other World Trade Center and 9/11-related photos, as well as thousands of others, here.