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...
View ArticleBehind 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....
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