Newly Released Photos Show Greenwich Villagers Reacting To 9/11

West Village NY

09 September, 2021

2:27 PM

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GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — To mark the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, a nonprofit released Thursday a crowdsourced collection of nearly 1,000 donated images of the World Trade Center attacks, including of people watching the towers fall from Washington Square Park and Greenwich Village. Village Preservation, a nonprofit that works to preserve the architectural and cultural heritage of the Lower Manhattan community, recently asked the public to share their images connected to Sept. 11, 2001. The Greenwich Village nonprofit received nearly 1,000 photos. Part of that photo collection includes a set of photos donated by a Greenwich Village merchant named Claude Seligman, who photographed Lower Manhattanites watching from Washington Square Park and other parts of the neighborhood as the twin towers came crashing down. Seligman took the first set of photos on Sept. 11, 2001, of people watching from Sixth Avenue and Carmine Street near Father Demo Square, looking south, as both towers burned between 9:03 and 9:59 a.m. The second set of pictures Seligman took was on Fifth Avenue just north of Washington Square Park, looking south. These photos focus on the stunned reactions of crowds in Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park as the events took place in real-time. You can look through both these sets of photos by clicking on the following link for the Village Preservation website: Claude Seligman Collection.