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Ask any New Yorker who was old enough on September 11, 2001, and they’ll tell you they remember exactly what they were doing that terrible day.

This New Yorker was in her second week of high school when the principal said on the loud speaker, “there’s been an accident at the World Trade Center.” This was the widely held belief when the first plane hit.

In the place of the Twin Towers, is a memorial bearing the names of the 9/11 victims, and those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It’s well worth visiting.

As noted by CNN, “before the National September 11 Memorial & Museum opened at Ground Zero, there was the 9/11 Tribute Museum,” which opened in 2006.

The Tribute museum closed this summer, due to financial troubles.

CNN reported, “although the museum’s physical presence is gone, the majority of its holdings are now part of the permanent collection at the New York State Museum in Albany, about 150 miles north of New York City.”

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