This page is dedicated to the victims of the horrendous attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11th, 2001, in which many people lost theirs lives, many others got wounded, many families lost relatives, many people lost friends and loved ones, and the world of architecture lost two icons in the skyline of New York City.

Most of the pictures on this page were taken in July of 2000. Although it was my third time in New York City,
it was the first time I went to lower Manhattan and the first time I visited and took pictures of the two World Trade Center buildings. Unfortunately, on the two days I was in New York City back then, the weather was bad and the pictures didn't turn out the way I wanted them to be.

In the last few months before the attack, I had already been making plans to go back to New York soon, to finally shoot some decent pictures of the two World Trade Center buildings, probably from Hoboken, on the other side of the Hudson River. Although I might go to Hoboken some day, that picture I was planning to take, will never be made...

Like many other people, I was deeply shocked by what happened on that black day in September of 2001.
I still carry that image of the planes that deliberately crash into the two towers with me wherever I go.
I guess I will do so for the rest of my life. I thought such an image was something you only get to see in movies...
My thoughts go out, to all those people that lost their lives, and their families and relatives.
This page is a little memorial to the victims of September 11, 2001, and of the two WTC towers.

Patrick Beckers


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Above: a cloudy day shot of the lower Manhattan skyline taken from the ferry to the Statue of Liberty Island,
with the Two World Trade Center buildings rising proudly above it. The picture was taken in June of 1997.


Above: a few shots of One (with the spiral on top) and Two World Trade Center.
They were New York City's two tallest buildings (One: 417m/1368f, 110 stories, 1972, #5 of tallest buildings in the world,
Two: 415m/1362f, 110 stories, 1973, #6) for almost thirty years.
In the middle picture:
this was the view you got (of upper Manhattan) from the top of Two World Trade Center.
On the left you have the top of One World Trade Center. In the far distance,
in the mist, you can see the Empire State Building.


Above left: close-up view of the World Trade Center complex taken from a helicopter.
Above middle: view from the square in front of the two towers, with the Plaza sculpture in the middle.
Above right: the top of One World Trade Center.


Above left: another view from a helicopter of lower Manhattan from the Hoboken/Hudson river side.
Above middle: looking up the two towers...
Above right: night view from Brooklyn with the Twin Towers rising above it all in the background.


Above left: another close-up of the top of One World Trade Center.
Above middle: night view of lower Manhattan taken from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Above right: ground view of the One World Trade Center building.


Above: view of the lower Manhattan area, with the Twin Towers,
seen from the observatory deck of the Empire State Building.
This picture is from june 1997 as well.


Above: view from the observatory of Two World Trade Center on a hazy day
of Manhattan, with the Empire State Building rising above it all.


Above: another view from the observatory deck of Two World Trade Center;
this time of the east part of the lower Manhattan area.


All pictures copyright (c) 1997 - 2000 Patrick Beckers. All Rights Reserved.
Download of any pictures from this site without written consent is strictly prohibited, unless for personal use!
This personal use does NOT include using the pictures on other web sites.


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