Twenty-five years on, the memorial that's still standing isn't made of steel — it's made of neighbors.

'We Held Each Other Up': A New Yorker Remembers How Community Carried Her After 9/11

Twenty-five years after 9/11, a managing director who was working in downtown Manhattan shares her memories of the months that followed. She describes neighbors giving blood, organizing vigils, plastering Union Square with flyers for the missing, and opening their homes to one another. Readers also contributed their own recollections, accompanied by photographs of Tiles for America, the 9/11 memorial in the West Village.

Source: 'We Held Each Other Up': A New Yorker Remembers How Community Carried Her After 9/11 — Reasons to be Cheerful

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