An FDNY color guard streams pass the fountain in the vest pocket memorial park on W. 48th St. just of Eighth Ave. where friends and family members left red roses in memory of the 15 firefighters who died on 9-11 at Battalion 9, Engine 54, Truck 4 firehouse. It was the house that suffered the most casualties on 9-11. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) West Side House That Lost 15 Firefighters on 9-11 Marks Another Solemn Day Fifteen times the bell tolled as it has every year since 9-11, 2001 when 15 firefighters from Battalion 9, Engine 54 and... News 24 Sep 2024 | 01:30
Due to the premature deaths of first responders who worked on the pile after 9/11, the FDNY and NYPD pension funds are facing shortfalls that a bipartisan group of Congress members want FEMA to address. ( Photo: Peter Foley) Pension Shortfalls Created when 9/11 First Responders Die Young Hundreds of first responders from the NYPD and FDNY have died before their time from diseases caused by rescue and recovery... Voices 13 Sep 2024 | 06:33
Though he captured each one of the 15 firefighters in the mid-town firehouse before they died on 9/11, he said he rarely if ever returns to the house where he was invited to live as a photographer in the year before the attack on the World Trade Center 23 years ago. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Photographer Remembers the Firefighters at West Side House That Suffered Greatest Number of Casualties on 9/11 On 9/11, shortly after 8:46 a.m., fifteen firefighters from Engine Company 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9–every man in the house... News 11 Sep 2024 | 11:08
Standing on top of a crumpled fire truck with retired New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, President George W. Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, during an impromptu speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center towers. ( Eric Draper / George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum) FDNY Firefighter who stood next to Bush in historical 9/11 speech dies at 91 The firefighter who became a symbol of New York resilience in the dark days after 9/11 passed away on Feb. 4 at the age of... News 08 Feb 2024 | 04:32
The September 11 Commemoration Ceremony in 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Forever Epicenter History constantly recalibrates our threshold of the unfathomable. What we thought was unbearable turns out to have been... Home 08 Sep 2021 | 01:45
The 9/11 memorial. Photo: Jörg Schubert, via Flickr. 9/11: Burned in My Brain I had been looking forward to Sept. 11, 2001, for weeks. It was going to be a red-letter day. Bob Dylan’s newest album, Love... Home 30 Aug 2021 | 01:01
Memorial Lights, Sept. 11, 2020. Photo: Florin C, via Flickr Downtown: 20 Years After 9/11 Two decades ago, our world changed on Tuesday, September 11th with the largest terrorist attack on American soil at the heart... News 30 Aug 2021 | 08:44
Allan Tannenbaum in his Tribeca studio, with Jimi. ( Photo: David Noonan) Capturing Life, and History In 1973, Allan Tannenbaum became the staff photographer for the Soho Weekly News, which was started that year by publisher... News 17 Mar 2020 | 09:37
