9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
A bone marrow drive for FF Jimmy Martinez will take place on Sunday, June 14, 2015 from 8:00am to 2:00pm at Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church in Staten Island. Martinez, who responded to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 was diagnosed in 2013 with multiple myeloma from his time at the recovery. He is […]
There will be a comedy benefit for Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Act on 5:30pm on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at UFT headquarters in Lower Manhattan. Comedian Colin Jost of Saturday Night Live will headline. Jost is the son of FDNY chief medical officer Kerry Kelly and knows the seriousness of the […]
Assistant Chief Ron Spadafora needs blood and platelets. A survivor of the attacks, Chief Spadafora was assigned as the World Trade Center Chief of Safety for the entire recovery operation in October 2001. He is now fighting World Trade Center cancer. He is currently a patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and requires regular blood […]
Every year St. Michael’s Cemetery and the FF Christopher Santora Foundation host the 2-mile Remember Me Run in honor and celebration of the police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel who sacrificed their lives to save others on 9/11 at the World Trade Center and who have died because of their work on the site of […]
As our community knows, the sound of a bell holds special significance for firefighters. The four fives ring for a firefighter who has made the supreme sacrifice. For the sixth year, on the weekend of October 8-9, 2016, bells will ring from coast to coast as a grateful nation pauses on Sunday, October 9, 2016 […]
FDNY Captain Mike Lyons, a 19-year veteran of the department who is still active, has been diagnosed with an extremely rare melanoma of the lungs, caused by his extensive time at the recovery operation at the World Trade Center site. Conventional treatments have been unsuccessful against this aggressive cancer, so the Lyons family has turned to an alternative treatment method, which is very expensive. To raise funds for Mike’s treatment, there […]