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.
Retired FDNY Lt. Gary Howard has serious issues with swallowing and spent this last summer undergoing chemotherapy and radiation at Sloan Kettering for oropharyngeal (mouth) cancer. Unfortunately, after treatments he is now back in Sloan and in need of blood transfusions. Gary was appointed to Squad 3 in 1970, transferred to Engine 28, Ladder 108, and finally Rescue 2 before his […]
World Trade Center survivor Leslie Haskin will be the featured speaker at the third annual Orange County Leadership Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:15am at Anthony’s Pier 9 in New Windsor, NY. Ms. Haskin was on the 36th floor of One World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, when […]
On Thursday, November 16, 2017, 10:30am, the FDNY Holy Name Society will hold the Brooklyn/Queens annual Memorial Mass for those FDNY members who have died over the past year. Mass will be said in Gerritsen Beach’s Resurrection Church. Resurrection Church 2331 Gerritsen Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11229
FDNY Firefighter Chris Ryan of Ladder 146 and his wife Dianna are raising money to buy a wheelchair van and to modify their home for their daughter, Emma Grace. Emma is 4 years old. She did not breathe spontaneously at birth and spent the first month of her life in the NICU. She has Ogden […]
Flight 93 National Memorial and the Forbes Road Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will co-host a special exhibit called Honoring Veterans through their Stories from 11:00am until 3:00pm on November 11, 18 and 25 in the Learning Center at the Memorial. This exhibit spotlights those passengers and crew members aboard United Flight 93 who were […]
Retired FDNY Lt. Edward McDonagh has died of World Trade Center-related colon cancer. Lieutenant McDonagh was a former Marine, married with five children, and lieutenant of Engine 37. He was 49 and had been sick for three years. His wake will be held at the Michael J. Higgins Funeral Home in New City on Saturday, […]