Freelance photographers Mark Stetler and Caroline Knopf lived in a spacious second-floor loft on Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan when the World Trade Center towers collapsed before their eyes.
The husband-and-wife couple, now Greenport residents, ran to the roof of their building when they heard and felt the first plane hit. Camera in hand, Stetler didn't stop snapping as the Twin Towers fell, and he didn't leave the rooftop until fast-moving debris forced him inside.
Stetler, who has published only a few images from this series, decided to share these photos a decade later with North Fork Patch on the eve of a 9/11 memorial weekend.
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