Why I’ll Always Have a “Home Phone” — A 9/11 Memory

Much of it was a blur.

I was on the 42nd floor of 1515 Broadway in the heart of Times Square. It was here that I was beginning my television career with the children’s network Nickelodeon.

I can’t hold this anymore

Hey everyone,

I don’t usually talk about my private life and for sure about the stuff I’m going to talk now, but I just can’t keep this inside me anymore.

I usually never talk about this stuff but I lost between 35 and 40 friends and family on 9–11. I was there that day and almost lost my own life. I lost my father, who was a wonderful man and I lost my best friend, who I had known since first grade, who worked for my father. The other friends were people I had worked with for 20 years. People often…

I would hope you, just for a moment, would take stock in how much of a snot-nosed, arrogant, under-educated, boorish shit you sound like.

The World Trade Center site is hallowed ground where thousands of New Yorkers’ friends, colleagues, and loved ones perished. Many of them were mine. Some were parents of my kids’ friends…