View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11

View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 is a color photograph by German photographer Thomas Hoepker. It shows five people sitting on the banks of the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn while a cloud of smoke rises over Manhattan in the background. It emanates from the collapsed towers of the World Trade Center, which had been the target of a terrorist attack that day.

Hoepker initially refrained from publishing the photograph because the pictured people seemed too unaffected by the events. The photo was presented to the public for the first time in 2005 at the Munich City Museum in an exhibition of Hoepker's work. In September 2006, an article in the New York Times triggered a controversy about the interpretation of the photograph in the United States, in which two of the depicted people also spoke out and stated that they had talked about the attacks while the image was taken. Subsequently, art historians and media studies scholars also addressed the photograph.