University Place[series info]

Manhattan Before and After 9/11

As the 1960s drew to a close, Richard Quinney walked the streets of Manhattan, camera in hand, documenting the life of the city. After the events of September 11, 2001, the images acquired a meaning and significance beyond anything he could have imagined. Once Upon an Island includes photographs of the construction of the World Trade Center and images that capture the experience of living on the island at the end of the 1960s. Susan Fox lived near Ground Zero from 2002 to 2006, and focused her compassionate pen on an overlooked part of the much-told story of September 11: the lives of the people in the affected downtown New York neighborhood. From horror to recovery, she allows us to know her community-office workers, bartenders, shopkeepers, priests, residents and more-who came together to heal a scar.

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