LOST TOWERS

About the Book

September 11th, 2001 changed the face of New York City forever. 7 towers lay in ruins-and 2,900 people were lost.

New York's construction workers reacted by rushing to the scene-using their special skills to rescue the living and recover the remains of the dead.

The city's real estate developers, contractors and public officials had private profit and restoring business as usual as their first priorities.

About the Author

Gregory A. Butler is a carpenter in New York City. He works in the interior systems carpentry sector?installing office furniture and trade show exhibits. In his 13-year career, he has worked on over 100 jobsites around the city?including the rebuilding of the American Express Tower in Battery Park City after the September 11th attacks.

Gregory is a member of local union 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, and a graduate of the NYC District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical College carpenter apprenticeship program. He is also the founder, owner and moderator of the Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.

Gregory is a lifelong New Yorker?born in Chelsea, raised in Far Rockaway and currently residing in West Harlem. This is his second book?his first work, Disunited Brotherhoods?race, racketeering and the fall of the New York construction unions, discusses the long sad history of discrimination and gangsters in the New York construction unions.