Readers’ Gallery
We asked our audience on nymag.com, Facebook, and Twitter to send in photographs from September 11 that spoke to their individual experiences ten years ago. Head to the New York Magazine Facebook page to see the full gallery. We welcome your comments, and encourage you to share your reactions.
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Abbottabad
Pastoral deathplace of a terrorist mastermind.Airport Security
Where the new normal has become (almost) routine.Al Qaeda
Post-Osama, now what?“America”
An idea with many authors.
A5: Anthrax SporeAnthrax
How terror created a rush to judgment.Artifacts
The things left behind.- B
Blind Sheik
His American fatwa had terrible repercussions.Blood
A touching, unnecessary sacrifice.Bloomberg, Michael
The mayor’s tough, crucial attitude: Get over it.Blue
What everyone would remember first.Building 7, Collapse Of
The conspiracy-theorist’s favorite structure.
B2: Fanon MP-5Bullhorn
What the president used to find his voice again.Bush, George W.
Will history judge his presidency the way it did Truman’s?- C
Cantor Fitzgerald
The firm that lost the most.Carpooling
Liz, Jacko, and Marlon: The starriest refugees in history.Cheney, Dick
The other leader of the free world, 2001—2008.Collected Works
How artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, video-game designers, and quilters responded to the attacks—a selection.Commander in Chief, Accidental
The brief, harrowing administration of Richard A. Clarke.- D
Dead, Accounting of the
From the dust, a numerology of loss.Dragnets
A season of suspicion in Little Pakistan.- E
Election, Mayoral
How America’s Mayor created New York’s mayor.Evidence
Secrets left in an airport parking lot.- F
Families, The
A potent coalition forms and fractures.FDNY
Wrestling with the myths of martyrdom.First Responses
A race to the scene, and then—chaos.Flight Attendants
The heroes of the day weren’t all men.
F5: Freedom FriesFreedom Fries
What’s in a word? A culture war.Frozen Zone, Life in the
Behind the fence, a kind of Utopia.- G
Gitmo
Despite the fast-food counters, Twilight Zone endures.Giuliani, Rudy
Giving him his due.Gold, Recovery of
The Towers’ buried treasure.Good-Bye
A phone call from the 105th floor.
G4: Early FavoriteGreen, Mark
The almost mayor.Ground Zero
A label to rally around.- H
Highway Deaths
Forgoing flight, at peril.Hijackers, The
Who were they?Holding Out
The family for whom the truth is more important than the
money.Homeland Security
Big threats, bigger government.
H4: Gottfried's SaveHumor
Timing was everything.- I
Iraq
Hunting for a link.Irony, The End of
Why Graydon Carter wasn’t entirely wrong.Islam
A story of reformation.- J
Jumpers
Why the most haunting images of 2001 were hardly ever seen.- K
Kids
The kindergarten class of P.S. 150 remembers.- L
“Let's Roll”
Catchphrase for a rattled country.Libeskind, Daniel
The lessons of the master planner.Live from New York
The return of Saturday Night Live.Lynch, Michael
One name, three guys.- M
Memorial
Affecting remembrance or adornment for real estate? A review.Missing-Persons Posters
Street art with awful power.- N
“Never Forget”
Memory, playing tricks.New York
What we were before; what we are now.9/11, Name of
We had to call it something.
N2: Hercules PatrolNYPD
Looking for terrorists, the police look at everyone else.- O
One World Trade Center
Making the Freedom Tower safe for Condé Nast.“Osama”
Person of interest.- P
Paper, Dispersal of
The odd sparkle of devastation.Pataki, George
Ambition unrewarded.Patriot Act
The kitchen-sink approach to national security.Pentagon, The
The target the terrorists got right.
P3: Still SearchingPhilip, Sneha Anne
The most mysterious of the missing.Planes, The
Flying weapons.Portraitists of Grief
2,400 lives, each in 200 words or less.Preemption
An idea whose time was made.- Q
Quiet
The dumbstruck city.- R
Republican Convention
When Bushworld came to town.Rove, Karl
Choreographer of a war presidency.Rumsfeld, Donald
The Pentagon poet found his rhythm, then lost it.- S
Satan's Face
In the smoke, a sign.
S2: WTC Snow GlobeSex and the City
Was it still okay to drink cosmos?Stairwell A
The only way out.Stockhausen, Karlheinz
The unsettling question of the Sublime.Surfing the Collapse
A Tony Hawk—meets—Tom Cruise fantasy, based partly
on fact.
S6: Last OutSurvivor, Last Pulled Out
Only twenty escaped from the rubble.- T
Television News
The last days of intermediation.Terror Sex
Love (or at least lust) in the ruins.Tora Bora
Where the new way of war failed.Torture
Once anathema, now a choice.Toxic Dust
“The air quality is safe and acceptable.”
T3: Anatomy of a FallTotal Progressive Collapse
Why, precisely, the towers fell.-
Tribute in Light
The first memorial. Twentieth Hijacker, The
Who else was supposed to join the attacks?- U
Unidentified Remains
The ongoing task of cataloguing hell.- V
Vigil
Union Square, the gathering place for public grieving.- W
W1: WSJ 9/12 EditionWall Street Journal, The
A long commute.Wall Street West
The backup plan that wasn’t.Widow, the Fake
The making of a perfect victim.Windows on the World
It was never about the food.- X
Xenophobia
The politics of the mosque.- Y
Yamasaki, Minoru
An architect whose legacy didn’t work out as he’d planned.Yankees, The
Baseball as therapy.- Z
Zazi, Najibullah
The face of terrorism to come?
