The Morning of 9/11 - Our House

The following pages are arranged chronologically as we took them while leaving our apartment on the morning of September 11th, and as we returned on September the 12th to pick up some essentials. We are still not able to move back into our home, and have been told that it might be another two weeks before we can. This is not so much from damage to our building, which escaped remarkably unscathed, but because of the immense cleanup required in the building and the neighborhood.

The photos are placed one or two to a page because some of the files are somewhat large. The map on this page is from the Times and shows the location of our building, all of the other images were taken by Lawrence or Milda.

Map of Downtown Showing Our Home (from the New York Times):

Our house is on Broadway between John Street and Maiden Lane. Look for the East River Savings Bank (#10) and then go 1 block right (East) to Broadway. Our escape route was out the Maiden Lane exit of our building. We ran two blocks to the East on Maiden Lane. At that point the second tower fell. We turned North to escape the debris in a sheltered side street.