Reminiscences of Christopher Knable : oral history, 2001-2003.

Biographical Note

President and Managing Director, The Regent Hotel Wall Street.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: foster care, life in Cleveland, OH and Dallas, TX; education: Hunter College, City University of New York; career: hotel work in Manila, Hong Kong, Beijing, and New York; 9/11: commute to work at Regent Hotel near World Trade Center, reaction to news of attacks, witness to second plane impact, description of burning towers, aid to those fleeing ground zero, reaction of hotel employees and guests; communication with wife and son, decision to stay at hotel; provisions for rescue workers, sources of aid; post-9/11: effects on wife and son, sending children to United Nations Schools; polarization of uptown and downtown Manhattan, cleanup of Regent Hotel, effects on hotel business; foreign response to 9/11 and America, American government response to 9/11; spending more time with family and striving for more balance, activities with LMDC [Lower Manhattan Development Corporation] and Coro; becoming partner in the hotel, upcoming business trip to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Subjects

• Hotel management.
• Interviews.
• Knable, Christopher--Interviews.
• Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Regent Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.