20 Years Later: How 9/11 Changed Lower Manhattan and Middletown NJ

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 9, 2021

Tony Perry, mayor of Middletown New Jersey, which lost more residents on 9/11 than any municipality outside of New York City, and Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, talk about how two communities at the epicenter of the terrorist attacks were changed forever, and how they have moved on.

→"Middletown Remembers 9/11/01"

→"Rebuilding Ground Zero Was a Mess. Lower Manhattan Bloomed Anyway." by Michael Kimmelman (NYT, Sept. 8. 2021)

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