Astoria

The event formally ended the Empire State Building's 40-year reign and ushered in a spectacular new addition to the city, an office complex that will eventually total six enormous buildings, cost $650 million, and house 130,000 persons on a given day.

The article continues, "...virtually without ceremony, 25 employees of two import-export firms, the building's first tenants, reported to work in the North Tower." Up on the 11th floor, Margaret Sliss of Astoria and Alina Kaminas of Sunnyside, both 22 and both attractive, were hurriedly snapping lights on a mini-sized Christmas tree.

And there's a very sweet photo of the two women who are both trimming the office Christmas tree.

Well, that's some real Mad Men era reporting of the opening of the Trade Center, let's just say.

And it's that it's, that's the thing that people can't take away from me is this.

When I really think about my MBA, I think about the apartment that I was in, in Astoria, New York at the time.

And I think about how I basically just sat there and I studied for the GMATs that summer before, like that is all I did.

okay, I literally locked myself in my room.

I remember I would listen to it going back and forth.

I was living in Astoria, Queens at the time, and I was doing an internship in Long Island City and I would listen to the song.

I mean, it was all over the radio.

You'd walk down the street and it'd be like playing in a restaurant, but I would listen to it.

She's bounced around.

I think she's in Astoria, Queens right now.

But, yeah, she lives, you know, in New York.

But the odd thing about it is she was a student at Oklahoma City University.

It's about three blocks northwest of where the North Tower would have been.

And on the day they're in school and they realise that something's wrong and they hear the impact and their school is not damaged, but they evacuate and she starts walking, she starts walking north and she starts to think she should get to Astoria in Queens, which is 10 miles away.

She walks 10 miles on the day.

And in the years that follow, Laila has asthma and she was saying that, you know, friends were coming to her saying that they'd been diagnosed with cancer and they were wondering, could it be linked to the exposures? Stuyvesant is really notable because they went back to school on October 9th.

Okay, so what's really interesting about this, which is different than every other episode of Trent and Friends, is that we've been friends for 14 years.

And we started in the same building in Queens, in Astoria.

And, you know, it's like an episode of Friends.

We had our entire life there.

I love...

I lived in Astoria, Queens, and I absolutely loved it, but Nashville's been great, too.

Now are-

Yeah, where are you from originally? You have a Southern accent.

Enough said.

Let's go to E. Frank in Astoria, New York.

E. Frank, hello.

Yes, hello, Patrick.