The skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan are seen here across the Hudson River, with the burnt out piers of a disused port area in the foreground. The Twin Towers extend up into the low cloud on this Sunday in August 1981. A cruise liner makes its way slowly towards the Atlantic Ocean.

Who would have thought that 20 years from now, the Twin Towers would be destroyed in the way they were?

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Keywords: New York, Lower Manhattan, World Trade Center, Twin Towers, Water, Ships, New Jersey