The kindergarten drop-off that saved Howard Lutnick and the 658 who never made it home

At 8:46 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the north face of 1 World Trade Center. The plane’s impact sheared through the tower’s core, collapsing the stairwells and cutting the upper floors off from any route down. Five floors above the crash zone, on 101 through 105, sat the […]

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