••• Photographer and director Stephane Sednaoui helped at Ground Zero after 9/11. “‘The nights were intense,’ Sednaoui says. ‘We would be on our knees digging, lifting and filling up buckets. There wasn’t much talking. Each had a specific task and we were all working in silence, being as efficient as possible. Of course, we all wanted to find survivors, but I sadly realized after a few hours that the purpose was also to recover dead bodies. Once in a while we would pause so that a special team could sound check the ground in hopes of hearing a survivor trapped underneath our feet; In those moments, I would pull out my camera and take a few pictures of my team.’ Several months ago, Sednaoui revisited his work with the intention of editing and donating images to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. He was surprised by the number of pictures he had taken—more than 500 over three nights.” As you can see from the one above, they’re pretty extraordinary, if they risk being appropriated as a Vogue Hommes fashion shoot. (Time)

••• Mayor Bloomberg says people shouldn’t call the site Ground Zero. I normally don’t, but above—about the days after the attack—it seems apt. (DNAinfo)

••• North End Grill chef Floyd Cardoz talks to the Feast about plans for the restaurant (coming to the Goldman Sachs Dining and Entertainment Complex). (via Eater)

••• Tribeca Trib “commemorates the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11 with this pictorial edtion, recalling the events of that day and its impact on the Lower Manhattan community over the years.”

••• “Southbound N/R service will return to Downtown’s Cortlandt Street subway station Tuesday, after years of closures that began on 9/11.” Sorry to be a nitpicker, but the N goes to Brooklyn after Canal. I know, because I’ve accidentally ended up there many times. If you live near the City Hall stop, N = No and R = Right. (DNAinfo)

••• “A group of self-styled revolutionaries is hoping to give the United States a ‘Tahrir moment’ later this month by organizing an occupation of Wall Street—though they’re yet to decide what the protest is about. A loose coalition of online activists, along with alternative magazine Adbusters, are organizing the Sept. 17 protest. Like many of the revolutions across the Arab world this year, they envision setting up camp and staying there for months.” The comparison to a revolution of the oppressed is not flattering. (DNAinfo)

••• Century 21’s major expansion plans got approved by the City Council’s zoning committee. (Crain’s)

••• 153 Franklin, a.k.a Chez Sinclair-Strauss-Kahn, is available once again for rent. What, you thought they’d hang on to it as a souvenir of the good times? (Curbed)