New Our City. Our Story. Podcasts Feature Rudy Giuliani, Others

Rudy Giuliani and Marilyn Goldberg both grew up playing in the streets of East Flatbush, Brooklyn in the late 1940s. Their lives took different paths but merged again on Sept. 11 when both found themselves in the midst of the unfolding disaster at the World Trade Center. Two new episodes of the Our City. Our Story. podcast series detail the stories of both New Yorkers and how Sept. 11 is a part of their lives.

Before becoming New York’s 107th Mayor, Rudy Giuliani considered careers as a priest, a doctor or following in the footsteps of family members who were police officers. He recounts the years before he ran for office when he worked as a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, taking down some of the city’s most notorious mob bosses. In Episode 5: America’s Mayor, Giuliani looks back at his life fighting for the city and the day that changed everything.

In Episode 6: The Survivor, Goldberg speaks about her memories of family outings to Radio City Music Hall in the 1950s, and her career working in Manhattan as a secretary. In her 71 years as a New Yorker, she has found herself entangled in several city catastrophes, including the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. On Sept. 11 she was at work on the 72nd floor of the South Tower and began the descent down the stairwell shortly after hijacked Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. She tells the story of her escape and how this day has changed her life. 

By 9/11 Memorial Staff