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My son was in lower Manhattan, working at the Village Voice
He was only a couple miles from Ground Zero, and I was desperately trying to call him. Anyone who tried to call Manhattan can tell you that no calls were getting through because the cell towers were down. No landlines either.
Finally around 10:30 a.m. (or so) my son emailed me and told me he was OK and everyone was OK around the Village Voice office. He told me to take a look at the Voice's website where he had just posted the first photos of the WTC Towers coming down. On that day, the Voice (a tiny weekly paper) scooped the NYT, the WSJ and every other news organization in the country. They posted the first photos of the disaster, from ground level.
