This is a video I shot on September 11 2001, when the smoke from the World Trade Center attack was hanging over our neighborhood. <br /> <br />Two days later all the bridges were still off limits, so I took a ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan. It was pretty eerie to see the skyline without the twin towers. <br /> <br />In Manhattan I walked from Battery Park through the Wall Street Area up to the World Trade Center. A lot of the dirt had already been cleaned up, but there were still mountains of dust and papers everywhere. A lot of people were wearing facial masks. <br /> <br />There were reporters everywhere, interviewing anyone who was willing to talk to them. Back then I still had a press pass, so I was able to get past the guards who blocked off the actual Ground Zero area. I took some video footage from the Ground Zero press center. <br /> <br />It was pretty amazing to see hundreds of reporters from all over the world standing in front of the smoking debree.
