Dirk Delph, 50, of East Flatbush, was at work at M.S. Farrell & Co. on 67 Wall Street when al-Qaeda hijackers crashed jets into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Inspiration The episode originated six years earlier, in 1968, when an 18-year-old street performer named Philippe Petit, waiting in a dentist's office in Paris with a toothache, came across an ...

Twin Towers tightrope walker recalls daring feat 50 years later: ... Petit will recreate his iconic walk inside the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue in his new show, ...

While 23 years has passed, the 9/11 attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and the U.S. Pentagon, should never be forgotten, nor the thousands of innocent lives lost.

Philippe Petit walks a tightrope inside the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine to mark the 50th anniversary of his World Trade Center Twin Towers high-wire walk, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024 ...

Philippe Petit on his Twin Towers walk, 50 years later 05:55. On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Philippe Petit will walk a highwire across the nave of St. John the Divine in New York City ...

Longtime pals Petit and Sting at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 2009. WireImage Petit, then 24, was arrested for his history-making walk between the towers in 1974.