Lawmakers Want Compensation for 9/11 Cancer Victims
ReadLocal lawmakers said federal overseers of the September 11 health program should add cancer to the list of illnesses that qualify people for victims compensation.Congressional Representatives...
View Article9/11 in Fiction
ListenNovelists Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland; Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin; and Julia Glass, author of The Whole World Over, discuss how they addressed 9/11 in their work,...
View ArticleLearning to Laugh After 9/11: A Reservist's Perspective
ReadToday on the show, we covered what many would argue is a difficult topic: how the terrorist attacks on 9/11 changed comedy, and how comedy changed the way we've dealt in our own lives with that...
View ArticleComposer John Adams Reflects on Pulitzer Work, Public 'Overreaction' to Sept....
ReadComposer John Adams, looking back at On the Transmigration of Souls, his 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece remembering the victims of Sept. 11, expressed satisfaction with the work's success, but...
View ArticleWhy I Didn't 'Heart NY More Than Ever' and What I Did About It
WatchIn late September 2001, WNYC aired a piece by one of our producers, Jule Gardner (now Banville) about her decision to leave New York just after the attacks. We checked back with her recently and...
View ArticleEric, The 9/11 Brother
WatchEric was 12 years old when his older brother, Paul, went into work at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Paul didn't make it out. And things at home turned ugly."Paul was the peacekeeper in...
View ArticleInSite: Art + Commemoration
ListenKay Takeda, Director, Grants & Services, at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, which was displaced from the World Trade Center after 9/11, and Nadine Robinson, a 2001 LMCC...
View ArticleWilliam Basinski on The Disintegration Loops
ReadIn advance of the live audio Webcast on September 11 at 3:30 p.m. at the Met Museum of William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, the composer reveals the story behind his magnum opus. In the...
View ArticleFirefighters Disappointed Over Exclusion from 9/11 Ceremony
ReadNew York City firefighters said they're disappointed the city isn't making room for them at this Sunday's ceremony honoring the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The mayor's office said due to...
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Behind the Post-9/11 Transformation of the Financial District
ReadThe September 11 attacks destroyed 13 million square feet of office space in Lower Manhattan. That, and two recessions, led to a loss of 16,000 jobs south of Chambers Street, according to a report...
View ArticleLive Webcast: Music of Reflection and Resilience
WatchWQXR presents The Cathedral Choir of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine's first public concert under the direction of the renowned Kent Tritle, performing works that capture the power of...
View ArticlePhotographer Richard Drew Remembers 'The Falling Man'
ReadRichard Drew worked as a photographer for the Associated Press for 32 years before he took his most powerful image on Sept. 11, 2001. Drew has called "The Falling Man" “the most famous photograph...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen's 'The Rising'
ListenBruce Springsteen released his album "The Rising" less than a year after the September 11 attacks. We look back at that powerful - and hopeful - album with New York Times film critic A.O. Scott....
View ArticleDecade 9/11: Suketu Mehta and Pete Hamill
ListenSuketu Mehta, New Yorker contributer, professor of journalism at NYU, and author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found talks with Tabloid City author and former editor-in-chief of the New York...
View ArticleDust
ListenPaul Lioy, professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and one of the first scientists to take samples from Ground Zero after the destruction...
View ArticleDavid Del Tredici Performs Missing Towers
Watch There are only a few, fleeting moments when one feels instantly thrust in to history. How does a seasoned artist react to such ephemera? In the video below, New York composer David Del Tredici...
View ArticleBach: Solace and Inspiration
ListenImmediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, WNYC began non-stop news coverage, keeping New Yorkers crucially informed from our studios just blocks from the World Trade Center.Like many,...
View ArticleCivil Liberties After 9/11
ListenNadine Strossen, former head of the ACLU, joins us to talk about how civil liberties have changed since 9/11, from domestic surveillance, body scanners, and indefinite detention to an expansive...
View ArticleStreets, Tunnels, Subways In Lower Manhattan Closed For 9/11 Anniversary
ReadIf you're planning on driving to Lower Manhattan this weekend for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, don't. Or to use the language of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority: "Motorists are strongly...
View ArticleMeredith Monk on New York Requiem
ReadThe above audio is from the opening of Meredith Monk's New York Requiem (ECM Records). In 1993, during the period of the AIDS crisis, my friend Tom Bogdan asked me to write a piece for him to sing....
View ArticleThe World Trade Center in Tampa
LookDuring the clean up of Ground Zero, 700 million pounds of steel were removed. Some pieces were shipped, like relics, to be used in memorials all over the country. One piece — measuring about 17...
View ArticleThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
ReadMohsin Hamid was born in Pakistan but has spent about half his life in the US. In July 2001, he finished the first draft of his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the story of a young global...
View ArticleHip-Hop Reacts to 9/11
ListenRight after 9/11, Davey D, a longtime hip-hop journalist and radio host, remembers rappers throwing benefit concerts for firefighters and cops. “I remember Canibus joining the army, and Eminem...
View ArticleSarah Jones’ Post-9/11 World
ListenEarly in 2001, the writer and performer Sarah Jones started working on a one-woman Broadway show called Bridge and Tunnel. The play, which won a Tony Award, featured Jones playing a diverse cast...
View ArticleLaughing at 9/11
ListenIn the days after 9/11, late night talk show hosts like David Letterman and Jon Stewart limped back on screen. On September 20, Stewart mused, “They said to get back to work, and there were no...
View ArticleReturning Home on September 11, 2001
ReadOn the morning of September 11, I was in midtown Manhattan, so I walked south – downtown. There I encountered the wave of refugees walking north, people still wearing white breathing masks, people...
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See for Yourself
Over the last 10 years, there has been a steady stream of people –non-New Yorkers, mostly –visiting the site downtown known as Ground Zero. After the opening of the Memorial this Monday,...
View ArticleSteve Reich’s WTC 9/11
ListenSteve Reich is one of the most acclaimed composers working today. He was a pioneer in using recorded voices as part of his compositions.Even though Reich is no stranger to difficult subject...
View ArticleThe Little Fireboat That Could
ReadMaira Kalman has written and illustrated more than a dozen books, for children and adults. In the months following 9/11, when a friend suggested she write a book about the attacks, she said,...
View ArticleThe New National 9/11 Memorial
LookTen years ago, Lower Manhattan was the epicenter of the most shocking, upsetting day in many Americans' lifetimes. But today Ground Zero is bustling with construction workers, cranes, and other...
View Article'Measuring Time' Preview
ListenThis summer, WNYC and WQXR began asking listeners and guests, “What music would you like to hear as you think about the events of 10 years ago?” The result was a diverse and thought-provoking...
View Article9/11 Collage
The performance - A City Reimagined - brilliantly directed and executed, is the greatest gift we could possibly give to the New Yorkers who found the strength to tell us their stories in the immediate...
View ArticleDowntown Restaurants After 9/11
ListenRestaurateurs Drew Nieporent, Michael Lomonaco (formerly of Windows on the World), and David Bouley all had restaurants in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. They describe the impact of the...
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Requiem Project: Part I
ListenThe first two hours of Q2's 10-hourRequiem Project mix features suggestions from listeners, compositions from contributing composers Meredith Monk and Ingram Marshall, a work whose U.S. choral...
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Requiem Project: Part II
ListenThe second segment of Q2's 10-hourRequiem Project mix features suggestions from listeners, compositions from contributing composers including Gavin Bryars and Toby Twining, stories from artists...
View ArticleDecade 9/11: Lawrence Wright and Fawaz Gerges
ListenLawrence Wright, staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and the director of the Middle East Center at...
View ArticleRyan Adams on "New York, New York"
ListenIn the wake of 9/11, certain music that was recorded well before the attacks suddenly took on new meaning. Alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams joins us to explain how “New York, New York,”...
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Requiem Project: Part III
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View ArticleDecade 9/11: Music of Reflection and Resilience
GoWQXR presents The Cathedral Choir of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine's first public concert under the direction of the renowned Kent Tritle, performing works that capture the power of...
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Requiem Project: Part IV
Listen The fourth segment of Q2's 10-hourRequiem Project mix features suggestions from listeners, compositions from composers including Meredith Monk and Arvo Part, stories from writers and volunteers,...
View ArticlePark Service Prepares Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania
LookOn Saturday, September 10, a new national memorial will be dedicated in Shanksville, PA, at the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001, killing all 40 passengers and...
View ArticleWatch | Speaking with 9/11 Memorial Construction Workers
WatchThe 9/11 Memorial has been underway for the past three years — since the fall of 2008. In the weeks leading up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, WNYC producers Laura Mayer and Stephen Nessen went...
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Requiem Project: Part V
ListenThe fifth segment of Q2's 10-hourRequiem Project mix features suggestions from listeners, a composition from Ingram Marshall, stories from a musician, a scientist, a policeman and a relative of a...
View ArticleCity Residents Planning to Engage, Ignore 9/11
Read September 11 was important to Allison Altschuller long before it became the icon known as 9/11.It's the date her father died, when she was still in her teens, and it's also close to his birthday,...
View Article#3243: Unintended Elegies
ListenOn the morning of September 11, 2001, Brooklyn composer William Basinski was finishing a project based on some very old tape-loops he’d made. The tape itself was disintegrating, and Basinski...
View ArticleStories of Loss and Recovery
ListenAs part of The Requiem Project, we searched the WNYC Archives for voices that offer perspective on loss, grief and remembrance. The goal was for these voices to augment the music stream — text...
View ArticleReflections on Elgar's Cello Concerto
ReadWatch a video of Jacqueline du Pré performing the first movement of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, below.There’s a doubleness to listening to Jacqueline du Pré play...
View ArticleBach: Solace and Inspiration
ListenImmediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, WNYC began non-stop news coverage, keeping New Yorkers crucially informed from our studios just blocks from the World Trade Center.Like many,...
View Article#3244: Responsorium 9/11
ListenListen to music written in response to the 9/11 attacks. Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Steve Reich and John Adams each used an almost documentary approach to the events of 9/11; we’ll hear...
View ArticleWith 'One Sweet Morning,' Corigliano Finally Writes His 9/11 Piece
When conductor Alan Gilbert asked John Corigliano to write a large-scale commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the composer realized he didn’t want the piece to become a tone poem – a piece...
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