September 12, 2001
GROUND WHERE TOWERS STOOD IS NOW LITTERED WITH SADNESS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amYOU can't help but notice the shoes. The empty, size-8, black platform sandals. Or the size-6 pumps. They were strewn about the debris field that used to be the World...
7TH ON 6TH TENTS NOW FOR VICTIMS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTents for the fall fashion shows were offered to the city for helping victims after all shows for the week were canceled yesterday. There were 41 shows scheduled at the...
OUR ECONOMY CAN TAKE IT ; FEDS MUST MOVE TO KEEP MARKETS STABLE
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE'S a reason there are no major financial markets in places like the Mideast. No matter where investors live in this unsettled world, they want to know that their assets...
WORKERS RAN FOR THEIR LIVES
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWall Streeters scrambled for cover yesterday as the attack on the World Trade Center left possibly thousands dead and many thousands more dazed and confused. The early morning blast caught...
NYC TOURISM BIZ WILL BE HARD-HIT; B'WAY GOES DARK
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe effects of the New York terrorist attack have yet to be measured, but tourism will undoubtedly be one of the hardest hit industries. "This will have a huge impact...
GREAT WHITE WAY DARK AFTER ATTACK
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amALL Broadway shows were canceled last night following yesterday's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.Performances at Lincoln Center - home to the Lincoln Center Theater, the Metropolitan Opera House...
COURAGE UNDER FIRE - DANGER AND DEBRIS ON THE NEWS FRONT LINES
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amIT was a day of death, dust and tears for TV news crews who covered the deadly terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center yesterday. "I thought I was...
BLAST SEEN 'ROUND THE WORLD - HORRIFIED VIEWERS WAKE AND WATCH BIGGEST STORY EVER
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amIT was the most-widely broadcast news story in the history of television. At various times, coverage of yesterday's terrorist disaster could be seen simultaneously on more than 30 channels -...
HORRIBLE REMINDER FOR 1993 SURVIVOR
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amFormer Wall Street trader Clark Landis was caught in the World Trade Center explosion in 1993 - and he always had a terrible feeling the horror would be repeated. "I...
ARAB NEW YORKERS PLEAD: DON'T PIN THE BLAME ON US
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amArab New Yorkers reacted with shock at yesterday's terrorist attacks and said they feared the extent of American backlash. But they warned against blaming all Muslims for the tragedy. "These...
IT'S A NEW WORLD ; SHATTERED POLITICS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amAMERICAN life will never be the same, and neither will American politics. The alterations are immediate and far-reaching, both in Washington and here in New York. At a time of...
THE EARTH FELL ON TOP OF ME ; POST FOTOG TELLS OF HIS NEAR-DEATH
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWhen the world caved in on me yesterday morning, I was standing 200 feet from One World Trade Center. I was looking at the top of the other Twin Tower...
COAST-TO-COAST ALARM : SHUT LANDMARKS, EVACUATE OFFICESACROSS THE NATION
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amIn the wake of yesterday's unprecedented terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, cities around the nation were on high alert as evacuations were ordered at the tallest skyscrapers in...
HOW B'KLYN MOM MISSED DATE WITH DEATH
September 12, 2001 | 4:00am'I WORK at the World Trade Center. I was supposed to be there," said the trembling woman, standing on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. "My child made me late because...
SIMPLY KILL THESE BASTARDS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE response to this unimaginable 21st century Pearl Harbor should be as simple as it is swift - kill the bastards. No, I don't mean hunt them, arrest them, extradite...
GLOBAL SHUTDOWN; WORLD LEADERS CONFER; DOLLAR COLLAPSES
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWorld economic leaders huddled around the clock in search of a plan to keep the global economy from teetering into monumental ruin. The dollar collapsed almost instantly after the blast,...
CITY-UNDER-SIEGE D.C. LOOKS READY FOR INVASION
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The nation's capital turned into a war zone after yesterday's hijack-kamikaze attack on the Pentagon. The White House, with smoke rising from the Pentagon behind it, was evacuated...
WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON WE were horrified, in our newsrooms yesterday, when one, and then two, airliners plowed into the World Trade Centers. Then a third plane crashed, into the Pentagon. We continued...
CAMPAIGN FOR CITY HALL PUT ON HOLD
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe campaign is on hold. The four Democratic candidates for mayor declared a moratorium on all campaigning and planned to issue a joint statement today, saying they would stay off...
EMBERS OF SHATTERED LIVES HERE
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE charred remains rained from the sky all day, pieces of lives scattered to the winds. Sheets of computer paper burnt around the edges. Charred business cards with names still...
CALLER REVEALS HIJACK HORROR: 'THE PLANE IS GOING DOWN'
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amA United Airlines jet crashed in western Pennsylvania yesterday, minutes after a terrified passenger told an emergency dispatcher in a heart-stopping cell phone call, "We are being hijacked!" A Virginia...
HOW COULD WE LET IT HAPPEN? COLOSSAL FAILURE FOR U.S. SECURITY
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amHow could it have happened? It was such a global failure of intelligence that no one even imagined such massive suicide attacks could strike at America - or how to...
THE PRICE OF AMERICA'S RETREAT
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amEVEN as thousands of his followers danced in the streets throughout the Palestinian Authority to celebrate the unprecedented carnage inflicted on America, Yasser Arafat went before the TV cameras to...
WHAT MUST BE DONE ; NO MORE EXCUSES FOR THE CIA
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE massacres yesterday were not a "disaster" -that word suggests something natural or inevitable, and the massive terrorist attack that has changed our world was neither. It was something much...
POLS PROMISE CITY WILL BOUNCE BACK
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amState and local officials yesterday expressed anguish and outrage over the horrific terrorist assault on New York City - and vowed that the Big Apple would stay whole. "We will...
WATCHING THE SKY FALL
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHE sky isn't supposed to fall in New York City. But yesterday morning it did just that. As I watched from my vantage point on the Lower East Side, I...
5 YEARS TO BUILD, 90 MINUTES TO DESTROY
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe seven-building World Trade Center complex at the edge of lower Manhattan has had, like large developments today, a stormy past. Even before work began, developers resented the intrusion of...
WORLD STOCK MARTS PLUNGE
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe attack on the World Trade Center yesterday caused world markets to plummet and U.S. business to grind to a halt. All U.S. markets - including the New York Stock...
TRAGEDY SHUTS DOWN COUNTRY: ALL U.S. FLIGHTS ARE GROUNDEDAS A PRECAUTION
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amCowardly terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon yesterday sent the United States into a coast-to-coast lockdown. The FAA grounded all domestic and international flights until at least...
BIZ TENANTS AND NEIGHBORS IN CHAOS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe terrorist attacks that caused the Twin Towers to crumble took an undetermined toll in lives and a multibillion-dollar toll on businesses - especially in the Wall Street and banking...
SCARED SHOPPERS MAKE RUN ON GROCERIES
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amDesperate New Yorkers made a run on grocery stores yesterday, scooping up water, milk and other staples. "I'm just worried about the deliveries, about the food getting to the market,"...
SUSPECT SET FREE IN SNAFU
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Defense Department is investigating a frightening incident in which the feds let a suspected terrorist slip through their fingers after he was caught snapping photos of security operations at...
'HORRIFIED' RUDY RAN FOR HIS LIFE: MAYOR ESCAPES BURIED OUTPOST
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani was among those who had to flee for his life yesterday. The collapsing towers rained debris on nearby buildings, including 75 Barclay St., where the mayor and his...
GRIEF-STRICKEN SEEK SOLACE IN RELIGION: HOUSES OF WORSHIP OPEN AMID CHAOS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amHouses of worship all over the city opened their doors to grieving relatives, friends and those simply seeking solace from the horror of yesterday's attack on the World Trade Center....
RUDY URGES: STAY HOME TODAY
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amDon't come into Manhattan today unless you have to. "If [today] is a day you can take off, it would probably be a good thing to stay home," Mayor Giuliani...
MILITARY PUT ON 'HIGHEST ALERT'
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush ordered the nation's military to "highest-alert status" yesterday, sending battleships to New York, closing embassies and heightening security at U.S. bases from Okinawa to Stuttgart, Germany. "We have...
SCHOOLS STAY CLOSED TODAY ; PARENTS, SHRINKS HELP KIDS COPE WITH TRAUMA
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amCity public and parochial schools will be closed today as staffers prepare plans to help traumatized students - some of whom actually witnessed the World Trade Center disaster. Schools Chancellor...
'I CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT OUT' ; SURVIVORS TELL MIRACLE TALES OF HOW THEY MADE IT
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThey all thought they were going to die. First they heard the boom, and then they felt the shake. They jammed themselves into the stairways elbow-to-elbow, scurrying down into the...
SORRY, NO ANSWER ; FRANTIC PHONE CALLS GREETED BY SILENCE
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWorkers streamed out of their offices and frantically grabbed their cell phones to check on family and friends after yesterday's horror - but got connected with nothing but dead air....
TERROR DATE MAY HAVE MEANING
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amSept. 11 may have been chosen as the date of yesterday's terrorist attacks because of its ties to major developments in the Mideast. On Sept. 11, 1922, a British mandate...
EXPERTS SURE IT'S BIN LADEN'S WORK ; FEDS INTERCEPT CALLS AS HIS MEN DISCUSS MISSION
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden emerged last night as the leading suspect behind the horrific kamikaze jetliner attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and a portion...
HOSPS RUSH TO ACTION ; VICTIMS POUR IN BY THE HUNDREDS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amDozens of hospitals were transformed into full-scale disaster centers yesterday as doctors, nurses and paramedics frantically worked to save victims of the World Trade Center horror. Hospitals canceled all non-emergency...
BIN LADEN'S SICK BOAST NOW REALITY ; FANATICAL SAUDI PRIME SUSPECT IN LATEST OUTRAGE
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amOsama bin Laden, who emerged as a prime suspect in yesterday's terrorist onslaught, is a mysterious Saudi exile who warned three weeks ago that he would carry out "an unprecedented...
ATTACK KNOCKED OUT POWER TO DOWNTOWN
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amYesterday's terror attack triggered a power outage in lower Manhattan and a state of alert at utility facilities around the city. Con Edison spokeswoman Brenda Perez said that "equipment problems"...
MANHATTAN BECAME A WALLED-OFF ISLAND: COMMUTERS STRANDED FOR HOURS WITH NO WAY HOME
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe terrorist acts that destroyed the Twin Towers forced traffic in, around and outside of Manhattan to snarl to a stop yesterday, stranding millions of commuters. Within a half-hour of...
CRASH KIN VENT RAGE AND DESPAIR
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amRelatives of people aboard the jetliners that were crashed into the World Trade Center wept and demanded revenge, as stunned airport workers wondered how the terrorists breached their security. "Whoever...
'IT WAS THE END FOR ALL OF US'
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThey ran for their lives, bloodied and burned, hysterical and confused. Thousands of survivors yesterday told of miraculous escapes, courage and determination as they fled burning buildings only to be...
HEROES EMERGE AMID CHAOS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amOrdinary New Yorkers were transformed into everyday heroes yesterday. There wasn't a lot most of them could do. But everyone did what they could. Twenty blocks from the Trade Center,...
TERROR TOLL MAY TOP 10,000 ; HIJACKED JETS DESTROY WORLD TRADE CENTER, SMASH INTO PENTAGON
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTwin terror attacks by hijacked airliners toppled the World Trade Center towers yesterday as coordinated strikes here and in Washington killed untold numbers of people, leaving the nation reeling from...
MIDTOWN A GHOST TOWN
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe lights of Times Square were blazing last night. But no one was there. Midtown Manhattan, normally gnarled with pedestrians and jammed with taxis en route to the theater, was...
RESCUERS WATCH THE WORLD CAVE IN
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe 911 call came in seconds after the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m. - signaling the start of the blackest day in New York...
TV BIGWIGS ON DOOMED FLIGHTS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amAward-winning television producer David Angell and former federal prosecutor Barbara Olson were among the thousands of innocent victims of yesterday's coordinated terror attacks on New York City and the nation's...
BUSH: 'EVIL' WILL BE PUNISHED
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush last night said that America "saw evil" on a day of terror - and vowed that "the search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts."...
THE EARTH FELL ON TOP OF ME: POST FOTOG TELLS OF HIS NEAR-DEATH
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWhen the world caved in on me yesterday morning, I was standing 200 feet from 1 World Trade Center, looking at the top of the other Twin Tower resting on...
SCHOOL FAMILIES STRUGGLING TO COPE
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amParents and their kids reacted with stunned disbelief outside Manhattan schools yesterday afternoon following the attack that left the World Trade Center in ruins. "All the children are really scared...
SURREAL VIEW FROM CLASSROOM WINDOWS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amParents, kids and teachers reacted with stunned disbelief outside Manhattan schools yesterday following the attack that left the World Trade Center in ruins. "It was surreal ... all of a...
TRANSIT OUTLOOK FOR THE DAY AFTER
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amAs the city struggles to return to some kind of normalcy, questions abounded last night about how New Yorkers can get around. While subway service was shut down briefly yesterday,...
HOSPS RUSH TO ACTION: VICTIMS POUR IN BY THE HUNDREDS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amDozens of hospitals were transformed into full-scale disaster centers yesterday as doctors, nurses and paramedics frantically worked to save victims of the World Trade Center horror. Hospitals canceled all non-emergency...
RESCUERS WATCH THE WORLD CAVE IN : FIRST FIREMEN TO ARRIVE BURIED BY FALLING DEBRIS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe first 911 call came in seconds after the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m. -signaling the start of the blackest day in New York...
BUSH: WE'LL PUNISH COWARDS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush has vowed to "hunt down and punish" the terrorists who rocked America with the worst attacks in the nation's history. "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a...
THORN: MJ'S RETURN GOOD FOR LEAGUE
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amIn a career that epitomized excellence at the highest level, Michael Jordan was the cause of recurring nightmares for opposing NBA players and executives. None escaped Jordan's 13-season competitive fire....
TRAGEDY CANCELS RACES
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amAll racetracks in the United States were shut down yesterday due to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and in Washington, D.C. Today's racing card at Belmont Park...
THE DAY AMERICA'S PARKS WENT SILENT: BUT WHEN GRIEVING'S OVER, GAMES WILL KEEP US GOING
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE is a time to grieve, and a time to cheer. There is a time to cry, and a time to play. There is a time to pray, and a...
ISLANDERS' THOUGHTS ARE ON FAMILY, FRIENDS
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - The first practice session of the 2000-01 Islanders season was barely underway at 8:53 a.m. yesterday morning when the first of a series of attacks on American...
VISITING CHISOX STUNNED
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amIn the background, a television showed the harrowing and all-too familiar scene of smoke rising from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Baseball was far removed from the minds...
STUNNED JETS PLAN TO PRACTICE TODAY
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amLIKE everyone else in New York and around the nation, Jets players and team officials sat paralyzed before television sets yesterday, stunned by the carnage that took place in lower...
NATION'S GAMES CALLED DUE TO TRAGEDY
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWith safety the foremost concern, the national and local sports world reacted swiftly yesterday to the tragic attacks on New York and Washington. All 15 major league games were canceled,...
GAMES CALLED DUE TO TRAGEDY
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWith safety the foremost concern, the national and local sports world reacted swiftly yesterday to the tragic attacks on New York and Washington. All 15 major league games were canceled,...