In 25 years since 9/11, memory has melded with beauty in New York’s cityscape

The Oculus, designed by Santiago Calatrava and opened in 2016, replaced a train station destroyed by the Twin Towers’ collapse. Thousands commute through it each day to the financial district. Mario Tama/Getty Images After 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, New York rebounded by building a new generation of skyscrapers. One World Trade Center is the tallest: The tip of its spire is 1,776 feet up. Mario Tama/Getty Images New Yorkers experience Sept. 11 milestones in varied and personal ways, whether they are too young to remember 2001 or fought in the wars that followed it. No matter who they are, when the remembrances are over, they will step into the same cityscape, transformed forever by what happened 25 years ago. Mario Tama/Getty Images Where we were on 9/11: More from The GlobeJournalist Omar Mouallem was a teen in Alberta when the World Trade Center attacks, and the Islamophobic rhetoric that followed them, reshaped the lives of young Muslims. He reflected on those years in his 2021 book Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas, which he spoke about with The Decibel on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Subscribe for more episodes.