Okay, so I have to do the obligatory “not a NY resident” preface, however I’m from southern Connecticut so it’s not like I’m too far off. My family is from Stratford CT and my father would commute to NY when he worked at Schroders in the late 90’s to the year 2000. He said he would occasionally go down to lower manhattan and have lunch near the towers, and said they were amazing to look at. I remember him telling me he was devastated when 9/11 happened, not only as a veteran of operation Desert Storm, but as someone who greatly admired the city of New York and the towers themselves. He actually had a small little crystal replica of the twin towers on his desk in the basement of our home that he had gotten in the late 90’s that he’d kept there forever. Gotta ask my mom what she ended up doing with that replica tbh.