Bearing witness: Local couple lived 9/11 up close

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Cheryl Sanborn boarded the N Train from her home in Astoria, Queens at 8:15am, earlier than usual. An administrative assistant at a lower Manhattan law firm, she intended to make a detour on her way to work. 

"Every Tuesday and Thursday in the summer," she explains, "they used to set up a green market in the World Trade Center parking lot. So I'd usually cut through there for a big pumpkin muffin and a cup of apple cider."

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