This video archive shows what would become Ground Zero long before it was a target — and captures the sweet banality of life in the World Trade Center. There’s something inexplicably haunting and poignant about it all.

For another spin on the city, and the Twin Towers, there’s the video below, a favorite song of mine from a favorite movie. Ah, New York in the late ’80s. The way we were. “Come, the New Jerusalem … “