Asleep and Old

claytoncubitt:

Unknown high-resolution aerial photo survey of still-smoking World Trade Center “pile”, 2001.

The city smelled of burning electrical wires for weeks, and when the fighter jet patrols rattled our windows at night when we woke up we couldn’t help but know we were breathing in the people whose families had posted flyers searching for them on every bus stop.

The apartment complex my parents lived in while I was in college can be seen in the upper left quadrant, next to the financial center buildings (with the blue domes).

My father was there that day - the last train to evacuate.  God bless us, New York City.