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Yahoo News photographer Gordon Donovan recently returned to the scenes of many memorable images taken in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Donovan photographed the same areas to show what has changed since the terrorist attacks 14 years ago.
New obstacles have arisen, requiring some adjustments in camera angles to align with the original images. This is the fifth year Donovan has revisited the New York skyline; each year presents new challenges as the landscape changes. (Yahoo News)
A view of lower Manhattan from the 9/11 Memorial near the north tower pool where the original One World Trade Center once stood, Sept. 4, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Firefighters pour water on the still smoldering wreckage at ground zero, where the remains of New York’s World Trade Center stand, Sept. 27, 2001. (Kathy Willens/AP) Visitors stand at the south tower pool of the 9/11 Memorial, Sept. 3, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Remains of the facade of Two World Trade Center is all that stands on the World Trade Center site, Sept. 12, 2001. (AP) Pedestrians make their way along Fulton Street next to St. Paul’s Chapel on Sept. 3, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Survivors of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center make their way through smoke, dust and debris on Fulton Street, about a block from the collapsed towers, Sept. 11, 2001. (Gulnara Samoilova/AP) Fourteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, construction is complete of a modern subway hub on Fulton Street, Sept. 3, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) People run from the collapse of the World Trade Center on Fulton Street on Sept. 11, 2001. (Suzanne Plunkett/AP) Looking toward the east side of Manhattan on Vesey Street just outside the entrance of the PATH train station on Sept. 3, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) A firefighter walks amid rubble near the base of the destroyed World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (Peter Morgan/Reuters) One World Trade Center stands proudly on the New York City skyline just across the East River from Brooklyn on Sept. 4, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News The south tower begins to collapse as smoke billows from both towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (Jim Collins/AP) Women wearing dust masks flee across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn following the collapse of both World Trade Center towers Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. The towers previously loomed tall in the skyline behind. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) New Yorkers and visitors enjoy a beautiful day crossing the Brooklyn Bridge toward Manhattan on Sept. 4, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Construction around the site of the World Trade Center continues on Cortlandt Street on Sept. 4, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) With the skeleton of the World Trade Center twin towers in the background, New York City firefighters work amid debris on Cortlandt Street after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. (Mark Lennihan/AP) With the skeleton of the World Trade Center twin towers in the background, New York City firefighters work amid debris on Cortlandt Street after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. (Mark Lennihan/AP) New York, NY, September 27, 2001 — This waterfront building sustained considerable damage during the collapse of the World Trade Center. Photo by Bri Rodriguez/ FEMA News Photo Pedestrians walk past the Millenium Hilton on Church Street across from the World Trade Center site, Sept. 3, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Medical and emergency workers, who are standing in front of the Millenium Hilton, look towards where the World Trade Center towers used to be, after a terrorist attack on the twin towers of lower Manhattan, Sept. 11, 2001. (Photo: Mark Lennihan/AP) Fourteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, construction continues on Greenwich Street in New York City, Sept. 3, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Ash covers a street in downtown New York City after the collapse of the World Trade Center following a terrorist attack Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Bernadette Tuazon) A slow commute for some on the upcoming holiday weekend in Manhattan, Sept. 3, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 13: This 13 September, 2001, photo shows New York Police Department (NYPD) members on patrol in the World Trade Center Complex in New York. At C is the collapsed 7 World Trade Center. (Photo credit should read JAMES ESTRIN/AFP/Getty Images) A view from Park Row looking toward where the World Trade Center towers stood, Sept. 3, 2015. Two 9/11 Memorial pools, of the north and south towers, occupy the space today. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) FOUR OF A SERIES OF FOUR PHOTOS—Smoke, flames and debris erupts from one of the World Trade Center towers as a plane strikes it Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The first tower was already burning following a terror attack minutes earlier. Terrorists crashed planes into the two buildings and collapsed both towers. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong) MANDATORY CREDIT The new World Trade Center buildings and the steeple of Trinity Church are seen from Broadway and Rector Street, Sept. 5, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) 394261 77: Smoke spews from a tower of the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 after two hijacked airplanes hit the twin towers in an alleged terrorist attack on New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) People stand on the waterfront in Brooklyn, looking across the East River at One World Trade Center and the Manhattan skyline on Sept. 4, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) Pedestrians on the waterfront in Brooklyn, New York, look across the East River to the burning World Trade Center towers 11 September, 2001 after a terrorist attack. AFP PHOTO Henny Ray ABRAMS (Photo credit should read HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP/Getty Images) One World Trade Center is seen towering above the landscape downtown behind the Empire State Building, Sept. 8, 2015. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building, Sept. 11, 2001. (Marty Lederhandler/AP)