Life-changing experience at 9/11 tells Brooklyn native Immordino: ‘Improve the human condition’
Sunshine Connections
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Brooklyn native Jonathan Immordino was working as a Senior Business Analyst for Morgan Stanley on the 68th floor of 2 World Trade Center. Very fortunately, Immordino and his co-workers were able to evacuate down the stairway to safety that morning before the second terrorist jetliner crashed into that building.
Outside the building, unaware of why they were being evacuated, Immordino and his co-workers were directed across the street where they were able to see the chaos and the damage caused by the terrorist attack on the first tower. Immordino preferred to go home to his family rather than stay to witness the terrible scene. So he took the last J train out of Manhattan to his home in Woodhaven, Queens.
Cell towers were inoperable as a result of the attacks, so Immordino could not alert his wife or his family that he was indeed safe. His parents, who had been watching the scenes unfold on the news, saw the second plane crash into the vicinity of the 68th floor of Tower 2. Unaware of Immordino’s earlier evacuation, they concluded that Immordino had not survived, so they retrieved his children from school, and the children were informed that their father had passed away. It’s easy to imagine the especially warm welcome Immordino must have received when he returned home that fateful morning.