These interviews describe the Department of Sanitation’s months-long work restoring lower Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001; they also describe the investigation and recovery operations at Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. This is not the exhaustive list of stories, but a small section of the lived experiences from that day; additional interviews are ongoing and will be added soon.
For more information on the work of the Department of Sanitation following the events of September 11, 2001, please visit the Sanitation Foundation’s dedicated site DSNY Remembers.
