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A haunting record of the destruction and rebirth of the neighborhood surrounding Ground Zero. When writer and feature filmmaker Peter Josyph spent a year and a half combing the historic streets and debris-blasted buildings of Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, talking with workers and residents, capturing its struggles and transformations, he became what he calls a “citizen-artist,” personally shooting over two hundred hours of footage for his film Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero, and writing this haunting, eyewitness account of the extraordinary world that was created on September 11 and has vanished now forever. When the Ground Zero neighborhood was misinformed and marginalized by city and federal agencies, it was left to its own devices in coping with round-the-clock deconstruction, toxic infestation, corrupt landlords, reluctant insurers, and simple access to the place they were proud—and cursed—to call their home. But loyal Downtowners who ran for their lives from the collapse of the Twin Towers returned with a resolve to restore their world to order. Exploring this “dust-driven world of collateral damage,” Josyph documented their struggle at a time when there were few there

Author

Peter Josyph

Publisher

Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438444222

Subjects

History, Social Science, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24