NY Waterway Ferry Terminal

Transportation

I actually was able to find my mother in line, despite my cell phone not working and the fact that there were literally thousands of people gathered there. Many of them were covered in dust from the WTC collapse.

We waited about 2 hours to get on a boat. Not too bad, all things considered. The trip took much longer than usual, and we had to travel south on the Hudson, close to the WTC site. The boat was somber as can be--no one was gawking as we passed the site--I remember people putting their heads down, almost in a reverential way.

Personal Learning Maps - September 11, 2001

We're collecting personal stories about who we were with, what we were doing, and where we were on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Create a path, tracing your memories from that day when in a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks 2,973 people were killed at the World Trade Center in New York City, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.