A report on New York City, New York City Police Department and September 11 attacks

NYPD Police officer in uniform
Bin Laden circa 1997–1998
New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"
Public approval of the NYPD over time
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after his capture in 2003
Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.
NYPD Dodge Charger
Map showing the attacks on the World Trade Center (Planes are not drawn to scale)
Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.
Officers from the Emergency Service Unit
Diagram showing the attacks on the World Trade Center
The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.
thumb|Police boat patrolling the East River
Flight paths of the four planes
Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
Motorcycle police officer speaks with a passerby
Collapse of the towers as seen from across the Hudson River in New Jersey
The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.
1 Police Plaza, NYPD headquarters
The north face of Two World Trade Center (South Tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175
A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.
NYPD's Critical Response Command protects high profile terrorist targets including the NYC residence of former President Donald Trump.
World Trade Center site (Ground Zero) with an overlay showing the original building locations
Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900
Remains of 6, 7, and 1WTC on September 17
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement
Aerial view of the Pentagon
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Satellite view of New York City on September 12, photographed by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) camera aboard Landsat 7.
The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center
A portion of the World Trade Center bathtub at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Search and rescue teams inspect the wreckage at Ground Zero on September 13
Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017
President George W. Bush is briefed in Sarasota, Florida, where he learned of the attacks unfolding while he was visiting an elementary school.
Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900
Vladimir Putin (right) and his then-wife Lyudmila Putina (center) on November 16
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.
Survivors covered in dust after the collapse of the towers
View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019
U.S. deficit and debt increases 2001–2008
California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
Alleged "extraordinary rendition" illegal flights of the CIA, as reported by Rzeczpospolita.
A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:
Mohamed Atta, an Egyptian national, was the ringleader of the attacks.
The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan
The exterior support columns from the lower level of the South Tower remained standing after the building collapsed.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.
Rebuilt One World Trade Center nearing completion in July 2013
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.
The United States flag flying at half-staff in New York City on September 11, 2014, the thirteenth anniversary of the attacks.
Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.
The Tribute in Light on September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the attacks
The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.
Fritz Koenig’s monumental sculpture The Sphere in its final location in Liberty Park
The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West
Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.
The I Love New York logo, designed by Milton Glaser in 1977
Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.
Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America
Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.
Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)
The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street
The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.
Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.
As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.
New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.
The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.
Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City
New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.
The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.
Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.
8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.
The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.
The growing skyline of Long Island City, Queens (background),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/nyc-s-fastest-growing-neighborhood-gets-180-million-investment|title=NYC's Fastest-Growing Neighborhood Gets $180 Million Investment|first=Henry|last=Goldman|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|access-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017
The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018
St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island
The Asia gate entrance to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. New York City is home to nearly 3 million Latino Americans, the largest Hispanic population of any city outside Latin America and Spain.
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center

The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, and the largest and one of the oldest in the United States.

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The hijackers successfully crashed the first two planes into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

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Approval peaked at 78% in 2002 following the World Trade Center terrorist attacks in September 2001, and has ranged between 52 and 72% since.

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Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground, with more than 200 children escaping harm due to efforts of the New York Police Department, which was mainly made up of Irish immigrants.

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New York City suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) lost 23 officers.

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