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Veteran BMCC Executive Recalls 9/11 And School's Recovery From Damage

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 9/10/18

“‘There were two and now there’s none.’ I’ll never forget those words,” said G. Scott Anderson, the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Vice President for Administration and Planning. After being stuck on the subway for 45 minutes, he and other passengers on their way to Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001 knew a plane had hit the World Trade Center’s North Tower but didn’t know that it was a terrorist attack.

“At the time no one knew that it was an attack, they just thought it was a private plane that hit the building,” he explained inside the rebuilt Fiterman Hall. The original structure was destroyed that afternoon when Seven World Trade fell against it. When another subway rider asked a Transit worker what happened, the gravity of the situation began to sink in with his answer, Mr. Anderson said. 

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