"Out of the Darkness," a documentary of Borough of Manhattan Community College's (BMCC) efforts to reopen within three weeks after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. BMCC lost more than 40 classrooms and laboratories ...See more"Out of the Darkness," a documentary of Borough of Manhattan Community College's (BMCC) efforts to reopen within three weeks after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. BMCC lost more than 40 classrooms and laboratories when one of buildings was severely damaged on September 11 and remains closed. For three weeks after the attack on the World Trade Center, classes were suspended while the campus served as an emergency command center for the city's rescue and recovery effort. Eight current and former students died in the attack or in the rescue effort. BMCC's Fiterman Hall, donated in 1993 by Miles and Shirley Fiterman, was destroyed when debris from nearby 7 World Trade Center collapsed and fell against it. More than seven stories of debris piled against a corner of the building and BMCC became the only college in the United States to have lost a building to a terrorist attack.
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