Official 9/11 Memorial Museum Tribute In Time-Lapse 2004-2014

Update: Watch EarthCam's latest September 2021 release here:
"EarthCam Premieres 20 Year 9/11 Anniversary Time-Lapse Film, ‘Never Forgotten’
Documenting two decades of the rescue, recovery and rebuilding at the World Trade Center site"

A letter from the CEO & Founder of EarthCam:

It's been a heroic undertaking to rebuild downtown New York City after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Within days of this national tragedy, I personally installed a camera to webcast the rescue and recovery for the families, and the world, to see the brave determination of first responders. As the recovery effort continued, we installed more cameras to document the rebuilding and construction of the site. This commemorative time-lapse honors the victims of 9/11 and is dedicated to their families and friends, with special gratitude to the first responders and the steadfast construction teams.

A super hardworking team at EarthCam, who I am so proud to work with, spent countless hours keeping the many webcams at the World Trade Center active for 4,617 days (and counting). This unprecedented effort provided our in-house editors with over 1 million images to choose from when creating this two-and-a-half minute video, as well as our other commemorative World Trade Center movies.

We at EarthCam are committed to continuing this photographic documentation to educate future generations and have donated all the images as well as the original camera to the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

I hope this time-lapse serves as a way to recognize that for the 10 years of construction, there was constant progress made to rebuild these important 16 acres of America.

Sincerely,
Brian Cury

Produced & Directed by Brian Cury

Archival Producers: Lana Moskalyova & Juan Navas

Webcam Technology: Bill Sharp, James Nicoll, Michael Winfield

Editors: Brian Cury & Ruslan Kolodenker

Location: Riese Restaurants and Millenium Hilton

Special Thanks: Jason Brossa, Joseph Nizza, Keith Winkler, Gus Oh, Amanda Valentin, Michael Van Rensalier, Jeff DeLiberto, James Stump, Phil Pfisterer, Sherri Dudley, Todd Maloof, Kirstin Uptegrove, Lauren Hopkins, Lisa Kelly

[carolakatzenhofer]

Amazing Video! God bless America! Greetings from Austria!

[science]

RIP for all the innocent people who have died in these foolish attacks.
Brought tears to my eyes.

[brokenintel]

I just visited the 911 Memorial and Museum last weekend and am from Toronto. The first time I visited the great country of USA and the Twin Towers was in August 2001. At that time I was only 16 and never imagined it will be the last time. I spent nearly 6 hours in the museum and cherished every moment of it, with an unspeakable dread and heaviness in my heart.

[casacara]

It’s the most fitting design for the memorial, imo. Empty spaces to commemorate what and who once were there.

[diningwithderek]

Who got this recommended to them today? I will be here next year for the 20th anniversary.

[HelpICantThinkOfACleverName]

If I could choose one word to describe this time-lapse, it would be "magical."
This memorial is truly a masterpiece.

[Cyborg_M]

God bless all the people who died on 9/11 🙏🏻

[dankification]

I love how they outlined the area's where the towers used to stand

[Dan-omno]

If you haven’t visited the memorial yet I highly recommend at least once. It’s truly incredible

[notNajimi]

I haven’t been yet but I absolutely love the design of the memorials for each tower. They could’ve easily had some gaudy statues, but instead they left the gaping holes where the towers once stood. It forces you to grapple with the sheer scale of the loss and the feeling that there’s something missing here that can never be replaced

[williebrown]

I thank those emergency workers, who put their health and life on the line to save people from the wreckage and clear the debris to make this building possible. God bless you all ❤🇺🇸

[ChrisD]

Amazing how we can rebuild but never forget

[joebarmann]

This is beautiful, we are very fortunate to have this work. What an amazing project!

[JA-wbmy]

Watching this video is so nostalgic… I was just a young man in my early 20’s when I started working at ground zero. As a union plumber, we were one of the first trades on the worksite. The first thing that was worked on was getting the train back online the went from New Jersey to the trade center. Our job was to replace the pneumatic air lines that controlled the tracks. I remember my first day walking down the scaffold to get to the bottom of the bathtub. They were still removing the last bit of debris…. Some of the lower levels of the parking garages were still there. It was so weird because some of the floors looked liked they were burnt to a crisp and another floor looked absolutely perfect as if nothing happened…. No char on the stop signs or parking lines. The train tunnels were pumped out from all the flooding and were very damp and had a terrible smell. I worked tirelessly at ground zero from 2002 till 2015. In the early stages there was so much miss management. We would build structures that were changed and taken apart. It was crazy… There’s another city underground at that the trade center that not many people know about… all I can say is those buildings will never come down again. In all my years in construction I’ve never seen engineering like that and I don’t think any structure will ever be built like that ever again. The engineers basically got a blank check to make these structures the strongest in the world.

[goose_e]

Today is September 11, 2019 now my school honored the people who has died in this tragedy and we have moment of silence at 8:45am because that’s when the first plane hit and we have another at 9:30am when the second plane hit 😢 RIP to who’s has died in this terrible tragedy 😔🙏🏻❤️

[wisdom_mikroteros]

December 2019, I visited this museum. I'm so sad I wasn't alive to see the beautiful towers that once stood there years ago. Rest In Peace, all the souls that died in 9/11.

[BSchwiz]

For those who have been to the memorial, I'm sure I speak for you when I say, this is a truly remarkable place to be. You literally can't hear the taxis honking their horns, people talking...nothing, you're completely separated from NYC and transferred into a different place. A truly peaceful place to be, despite what happened on 9/11/01, what many think to be the most gruesome attack on American soil, I love how I felt relaxed when going there. If you haven't.. I really think you should visit. It's an amazing place to be.

[alprogm]

because people dislike this work of art these people lasted years to do this and you have to have guts to take a photo every day from 2004 to 2014 good video that deserves millions of likes

[jennyfurr]

I went to the memorial in January, 2018. My first time in NYC. I can’t even explain how beautiful those reflective pools are. At night, the waterfalls drown out the hum of the city and the names glow from the light underneath the panels.
It’s very healing and humbling. It’s one of my favorite places to be. ♥️

[itsmedev]

My family and I visited the memorial years back and it still brings tears to my eyes of all the innocent people that died in 9/11