9/11 Memorial Officially Open To Victims' Families
During the 10th anniversary ceremony of the September 11 terror attacks Sunday, families of the innocents entered the memorial for the first time.
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During the 10th anniversary ceremony of the September 11 terror attacks Sunday, families of the innocents entered the memorial for the first time.
Nearly 500 Long Islanders were among the 9/11 victims. More than 2,000 friends and family members of those victims attended the Point Lookout ceremony Sunday morning.
While the eyes of the world turned to the World Trade Center site and 9/11 National Memorial in Lower Manhattan for the ceremony marking 10 years since the attack on America, it was far from the only memorial taking place.
Fortress New York. That's what it seems like out on the streets of the city on the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on America.
Dahler was on his fire escape, only a few blocks north of the World Trade Center, with a clear view of the Twin Towers, talking live on national television when the second plane hit.
Designed by architects Jessica Jamroz and Frederic Schwarz, the memorial's towers are sunk into a berm and divided by a granite walkway that faces on a line to the World Trade Center site across the Hudson River.
"The world may have called them brave, but we just call it doing our jobs," said Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano. "They died doing what they joined the fire department to do: helping others."
At the starting point late Saturday morning, the mayor, who is in his third and final term, emphasized the 10th anniversary of the trade center attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
There is a moving tribute in Bryant Park to honor and remember those lost on Sept. 11th.
The financial district surrounds Ground Zero, but there are also thousands of people who live there and many residents who were there on 9/11 still live near the World Trade Center.
About two dozen ministers gathered Saturday in front of St. Paul's Chapel in lower Manhattan. The group planned to walk to the edge of ground zero and hold a prayer service there.
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The National September 11 Memorial is just a few short steps from the frenzy of the streets of Lower Manhattan. It has two, one-acre reflecting pools in the exact footprints of the Twin Towers, where water seemingly disappears into a void in the center.
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Majestic bald eagles, unbothered by the cold, have been going with the flow on the Hudson River. They visit this time every year, and to see them is a delight for nature lovers.
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Majestic bald eagles, unbothered by the cold, have been going with the flow on the Hudson River. They visit this time every year, and to see them is a delight for nature lovers.
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New Yorkers will feel much better on Tuesday weather-wise as temperatures warm up slightly. But, snow and ice could make for a potentially dangerous evening.
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A Connecticut man was arrested after allegedly driving drunk in the Bronx and hitting pedestrians on a sidewalk Friday.
Parts of New York and Connecticut could see snow Friday into Saturday. A First Alert Weather Day is in effect for the weekend due to dangerously cold temperatures.
Bundle up — New York City and the Tri-State Area's stretch of dangerously cold weather continues, and it's sticking around longer than anyone would like.
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The 140-foot cell tower in Nissequogue would fix dropped calls and spotty service, but rise far above the trees.
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Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery is set to become the first on the East Coast to offer human composting.
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The Patchogue-Medford School District said in a letter that the Suffolk County Department of Health alerted them about an infectious person in the school community.
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