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.
Ryan Halliday, the godson of retired FDNY Firefighter Tom Carroll of Engine 219, is 22 years old and needs blood and platelet transfusions. Ryan and his family would deeply appreciate donations of blood and/or platelets. To benefit Ryan, designated donations must be made in the Blood Donor Room of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Please visit www.mskcc.org/blooddonations for […]
Phyllis Rodriguez, who lost her son Gregory at Cantor Fitzgerald in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, will speak about her experience attending the hearings in Guantánamo. The talk will take place at 7:00pm on Monday, February 25, 2013 at the Mapleton Conference Center in White Plains. Mapleton Conference Center at Good Counsel 52 N. Broadway White […]
The 9/11 Memorial will be open to the public on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 the twentieth anniversary of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. A brief ceremony will be held on the Memorial Plaza at noon on the anniversary. There will be a moment of silence at 12:18pm, the time of the bomb, to honor the […]
Hurricane Sandy closed the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center for more than two months. Their staff pumped 2 million gallons of water out of the Arts and Culture level and removed everything - including all the walls - and they've repaired, cleaned and painted the upper three floors of the Center. The Center reopened recently, […]
A benefit for NYPD Detective Joe Pidoto will take place on Thursday, February 28, 2013, from 7:00pm to 11:00pm at Mulcahy’s in Wantagh. Joe is suffering from life-threatening gastrointestinal cancer. He is a 45-year-old active detective with the Queens Robbery Squad. He has a loving family. Please help them defray some of the costs of […]
The John Jay Center on Terrorism’s first seminar for the spring semester will be held on Friday, March 1, 2013 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm when Jayne Huckerby will speak on the topic Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the aftermath of 11 September 2001 […]