I was in NYC at a breakfast meeting midtown (just south of Central Park). The restaurant manager interrupted our meeting to tell us that a plane had crashed int

I was in NYC at a breakfast meeting midtown (just south of Central Park). The restaurant manager interrupted our meeting to tell us that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. Two of the people at the meeting worked at Sun, which had an office in the towers. They left immediately, and the meeting broke up a while later. Walking to the subway, we could see smoke from the towers (and we were around 55th street). There was some confusion among pedestrians. Back at my office, there was a TV and we saw what had happened. I tried to call home, but the phones and my cell weren't working. I emailed my family, and managed to catch a train back home to CT. The train was full; people were standing in the aisles. Edit: A friend had a breakfast meeting scheduled at the Twin Towers that day, but it had been moved uptown and he was nowhere near when it happened.