September 11, 2006
In memory of the fifth anniversary of September 11
The official commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 will begin at 8:46 a.m., to observe the moment American Airlines flight 11 hit the North Tower, followed by a ringing of bells throughout the city. As the ceremony proceeds, the names of the 2,749 victims will be read -- this year by the spouses and partners of those lost -- interrupted again by moments of silence at 9:03 a.m. to mark the moment when United 175 hit the South Tower; at 9:59 a.m., when the South Tower came down; and again at 10:29 a.m., when the North Tower fell.
Starting at noon, thousands of musicians will start the Fifth Annual September Concert, playing and singing for free in more than 50 venues throughout New York City, and more worldwide. The event continues until 5 p.m., but will pause at 2 p.m. for a citywide sing-along of "All You Need is Love."
 New York Choral Society will sing at St. Patrick's Cathedral, the NYC Police Band will play Rockefeller Center Plaza, the New York Pops will play at the United Nations and other musicians will be at venues such as Central Park, City Hall Park, Union Square, Washington Square Park and the British Memorial Garden.
Among the museums holding special exhibitions for the anniversary is the Museum of the City of New York, which is in the process of restoring several hundred "missing" posters that were placed on a construction fence flanking the main entrance of Bellevue Hospital Center off First Avenue. Each a heartbreaking reminder of how much was lost, the collection is jarring in its immediacy, briefly returning the innocence and hope of the first hours when it wasn't yet clear that none of the missing would be found alive.
Before displaying the items, the museum contacted representatives from all the families connected to the Bellevue posters, curator Deborah Dependahl Waters said in an interview last week.
The photographs are varied; some are from weddings, a few look like stodgy yearbook or corporate photos but in many, the "missing" person is holding a baby or children.
One is a copy of an e-mail sent to a newsroom asking for help: My name is Illisa Micciulli, i am writing because my family and i are desperately searching for my cousin Deanna Galante, her maiden last name is Micciulli. She was working for a company called espeed on the 106th floor of the World Trade center. Her mother and husband spoke with her yesterday morning at 9:00 am. She was hysterical saying that there was smoke and flames all around her and that she was waiting for someone to come rescue her.
My cousin Deanna was just married 6 weeks ago, and is 7 months pregnant with her first child. She hads 2 tattoos one is a butterfly on her stomach and the other is a tiger on her tailbone. She was wearing a wedding band and possibly a gold hugs and kisses necklace. Please if you have any information about where he may be or you know someone who fits her description please call us at ...
"September 11, 2001: The Bellevue Hospital Wall of Prayer" is on display through September 17.
Across Central Park at the New-York Historical Society, there is another historical artifact preserved from the days just after Sept. 11.
The NYHS is displaying the Chelsea Jeans Memorial, which is basically just a meticulously preserved section of a store on Broadway still covered in the ash that covered parts of Lower Manhattan when the towers fell. David Cohen, the owner of Chelsea Jeans, preserved the section in his store as a mini-memorial until he closed his business in October 2002. At that point, the NYHS retrieved the jeans, the tank tops and sweaters, still on their original displays with $9.99 sale signs. Sealed off to prevent contamination, the dust, which looks like a cross between fine beach sand and crushed white ash, covers the clothes and the carpet and is mixed in with broken glass and pieces of torn paper.
The Chelsea Jeans memorial will be on display at least until January, but the NYHS also keeps another Sept. 11 exhibition permanently on display in its Luce Center, as well.
Elsewhere, a number of other museum installations are on display during the next few weeks and months:
"Joe McNally’s “Faces of Ground Zero, Portraits of the Heroes of September 11, 2001" at the NYC Fire Museum (through Oct. 1)
GIANTS: The Twin Towers and the Twentieth Century at the Skyscraper Museum (through March 25)
"United Response: Commemorating 9/11" at the NYC Police Museum
"Looking Back from Ground Zero: Images from the Brooklyn Museum Collection" at the Brooklyn Museum (through Dec. 17)
"Here Was New York: Twin Towers in Memorial Images" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Sept. 30)
Ground One: Voices from Post-911 Chinatown at the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas
9-11 Memorial Quilts on display at the World Financial Center
The Flea Theatre in Lower Manhattan will also briefly revive "The Guys," a respectful play about a fire captain struggling to write the eulogies for the men from his house. It will run through September 23.
Other resources:
Rebuilding timeline
WTC webcam
Earlier: Ground Zero's Tribute Center opens to public Sept. 18
Memorial honors 343 firemen killed on Sept. 11
New Freedom Tower design envisions wall of prisms
Freedom Tower's cornerstone leaves Ground Zero
The views from atop the rebuilt 7 World Trade Center
Colors is 'a handsome, proud-looking restaurant'
Tribute Center begins Ground Zero tour program
Reliving Sept. 11 at Ground Zero Museum Workshop
Sept. 11 timeline installed at Ground Zero
Soundwalk releases self-guided WTC audio tour
Ground Zero, to go or not?
September 11, 2006 12:01 AM in Downtown, History, Museums, Sightsology
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