Back to New York
While the world-city is still reeling from the pandemic, it has just been devastated by Storm Ida, which claims more than 40 victims. A few days away from commemorating the attacks on the Twin Towers, which left nearly 3,000 dead and triggered the American offensive in Afghanistan, reports in Manhattan, where nothing has ever been really the same.
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It is 9:03 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in Manhattan. United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center and the world understands live that this was not an accident, but the most incredible act of terrorism in history.
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Liberty Park, The Sphere, 155, Cedar Street
–Christophe Passer
New York 2021: still the old fire escapes, the shrill humidity, but also the air conditioning call of the future, perdition and the new skinny buildings, mad and frightened buttercups that now grow above Central Park . No place on this earth brings together so many stories from everywhere, still radiating, so many melancholies mixed with excitement. And so, twenty years after September 11, I am walking again in the sud of Manhattan, attempting to resuscitate in memory the New York of before September 11th. When they were still there, dazzling with silver in the sun of the eighties, the Towers, which they seemed eternal.
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