Never Forget

NY Dispatch Day 180: Most people who were alive that day have their 9/11 story. I have never documented my firsthand account before, but it is a subject that always comes up, a few times a year. “Where were you?”

I lived in the West Village, across the street from St. Vincent’s Hospital, walking distance from the World Trade Center. I passed it nearly every weekend when I walked for exercise along the West Side Highway. The twin towers were visible from almost anywhere in the city. I often us...