Manhattan #
![Manhattan Manhattan](/attach/Geography/America/United_States/Pictures/Factbook_Pictures/1720us/1720us.jpg)
Image courtesy of NASA., under PD
Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center.
This photo was taken of metropolitan New York City (and other parts of New York as well as New Jersey) the morning of 11 September 2001.