

“’You didn’t know we had earthquakes in New York,’ he said. The seminar host made a joke, recalled Rohan.

But just as the meeting was getting underway, there was a loud “KABOOM” and the room started shaking. They came in from all over the country,” said Rohan. “We had a seminar for all of our wearing apparel folks. Others such as Nina Rohan, a national import specialist associate who had worked 21 years at 6 World Trade Center for the U.S. She was headed to San Diego for training when her flight was grounded in Las Vegas after the Twin Towers were attacked. But on that day, she wasn’t in the building. Customs that Piccone had ever worked until September 11. “It was my first legal job,” said Piccone, who is now CBP’s associate chief counsel in New York. Customs and Border Protection’s legacy agencies. After graduating from Brooklyn Law School, she started working at 6 World Trade Center for the U.S. Growing up on Staten Island in the early 1970s, she watched from across the New York Harbor as the Twin Towers were being built. Photo by Stephen ZukĪs far back as Colleen Piccone can remember, the World Trade Center was always a part of her life. At 1,776 feet, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth tallest building in the world. The Manhattan skyline at night with a gleaming One World Trade Center towering above other skyscrapers.
