New Jersey woman runs NYC Marathon two decades after 9/11 to honor friends

By Kimberly | Published: November 7, 2021

Before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Kellie Kenny, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, changed jobs and went to work for a company in 2 World Trade Center.

Many of her friends from Cantor were killed in the 9/11 attacks, which killed 658 Cantor employees.

Kenny escaped.

She ran the 2001 NYC Marathon wearing flags bearing the names of the close friends she lost. This year she took out the flags and wore them to run the Marathon again.

Watch a video about her by ABC7’s Anthony Johnson here.

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The 9/11 chalk portraits are gone. You can see them on video

By Kimberly | Published: November 7, 2021

A group of artists made large chalk portraits of the 40 heroes of United Flight 93 on the sidewalks of the Flight 93 National Memorial, knowing that the portraits would slowly vanish due to weather and time.

You can see the portraits online here, even though they no longer exist on the site, reports Bob Batz, Jr. for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Bronx street co-named to honor NYPD Officer Patrick McGovern, who died of 9/11-related illness

By Kimberly | Published: November 6, 2021

The Bronx intersection of  Eastchester Road and Rhinelander Avenue outside the 49th Precinct has been co-named for NYPD Officer Patrick McGovern, who died of World Trade Center-related cancer in 2019. The 19-year NYPD veteran spent time at the rescue and recovery efforts after the September 11th terrorist attacks, reports News 12.

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