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The day of the attacks, Borough of Manhattan Community College Fiterman Hall was damaged beyond repair. The building was finally razed in 2009.
College Destroyed on 9/11 Reopens to Students
Eight students and alumni lost their lives on 9/11/01. A commemoration ceremony is held annually for the students and alumni of BMCC that lost their lives in the attacks, includingBMCC alumni working as a fire fighter and an emergency medical technician.
- BMCC faculty and staff in Fiterman Hall — just a few blocks from the Towers — heard the explosions and helped people into ambulances who were injured from falling debris.
- BMCC helped the Port Authority of New York create a triage in the gym at the College’s main campus building at 199 Chambers Street, using first aid kits and other supplies from the BMCC Nursing Department.
- Generators were also set up and 199 Chambers Street became the Command Center for the New York Port Authority.
- 5:20 on the afternoon of 9/11, World Trade 7, across the street from Fiterman Hall, collapsed and fell against it.
- More than seven stories of debris piled against a corner of the building and it became uninhabitable.
BMCC executives remember 9/11 | Higher Ed Dive
“Without any prompting whatsoever, when the planes hit and the fire started, my engineers shut down all of the vents in the main building. That’s an important thing to note; in fact, it’s become standard operating procedure when any similar incident happens to prevent fumes from getting into the building,” said vice president of administration and planning Scott Anderson
“Dr. Marva Craig remembers meeting her colleagues back on campus and immediately coming to a consensus that administrators would continue to operate and work to communicate with students, faculty and staff. She said students were so happy to receive phone calls, and that “the college was thinking about them even though it was closed.”......It was a confusing time, because the directions we usually gave were ‘Walk toward the World Trade Center.’ And, there was no WTC to walk towards.”
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