Friday September 11, 2026 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 and is remembered as the day that horrific terrorist attacks on America claimed nearly 3,000 lives.
New York Law School sits just blocks away from what became known as ground zero, the site of the former World Trade Center’s “twin towers,” which collapsed after being struck by two hijacked jetliners.
In the weeks immediately following the attack, NYLS students, staff, and faculty—eyewitnesses all—were asked to put their thoughts about what they had experienced that day on paper. These essays and reflections were compiled and published as Eight Blocks Away: Memoirs of September 11, 2001.
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