She Filmed the Towers That Morning. 25 Years Later, She Finally Watched. NYT > Top Stories By: Steven Kurutz 28 August 2026 at 20:05 A young college graduate filmed the World Trade Center attack from the fire escape of her Chinatown apartment. For many years, she avoided looking at the footage. Β© Todd Heisler/The New York TimesThuc Doan Nguyen-Brophy, visiting the apartment where she lived on Sept. 11, 2001, for the first time in 25 years.