Looking through some old photographs lately

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4. My old office! Black building just to the right of the towers (Bankers Trust - 130 Liberty Street)

My office was on the 38th floor of this 40-floor building (top floor was power backup, UPS, etc.) for around 9 years. This was the building that you see in all of the 'Ground Zero' photos that was shrouded in black cloth screening and sometimes a large US flag. When the south tower came down (the one without the TV antenna) the falling debris put a 24-floor gash down the front of the building, about one office deep. It was eventually deconstructed, one floor at a time, since there was no room around it to do any other type of demolition.

I left there in 1992, a few months before they set off the truck bomb in the parking garage under the towers.

Good memories of working there. I went in to the office to watch the fireworks for the Statue of Liberty Centennial...and somewhere around here I have a set of slides looking *down* on the fireworks! We used to watch the QE2 sail out, and always though it was a pretty good size...until we got to see it cruising out while the John F. Kennedy (aircraft carrier) was cruising in for the event. The JFK made the QE2 look like the ships skiff as they passed each other in the harbor. Was fun watching the JFK get turned around 180 degrees in the middle of the Hudson - it almost looked like it might reach from shore to shore.

Thanks for the memories!

(The photo looks like it was taken near the Harborside Financial Center across the Hudson, where we had a secondary backup Data Center.)