World Trade Center Page

I grew up in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn.  The photo below is the view of the WTC from the docks where I used to play as a kid.  I watched the towers being built from the site preparation through completion.  A number of friends and relatives worked in the WTC throughout the years.  Some still worked there on the day of the attack.  Some friends and relatives witnessed the attacks and aftermath first hand, and some were involved in the rescue attempts.

Papers and ash from the Twin Towers fell on Red Hook after the buildings collapsed.  Twenty-three people who graduated from my high school were killed in the attack, including one classmate and one team mate (see story below).

[Red Hook]

                  Views of The World Trade Center                

From the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn

(Map of Red Hook)

 

Red Hook is just above Governor's Island in the upper right.

 

Bob Murach, a fraternity brother and high school and college teammate was killed in the World Trade Center:   

 

1974 NYC Champion Mile Relay Team. Bob Murach on right. 

 

Our high school lost 23 alumni in the World Trade Center.  Ironically, many of the faculty were on the roof of the school, watching the fire in the first tower when the second plane flew directly overhead on its fatal flight.  A list of the 23: 

Gregory Buck '82, F.D.N.Y. Engine 201
Richard M. Caggiano '94, Cantor Fitzgerald
Liam Colhoun '84, Bank America
Carl M. Flickinger '81, Cantor Fitzgerald
Howard G. Gelling, Jr. '91, Sandler, O'Neill, & Partners
Joseph Howard '68, J.P. Morgan Chase
Vincent Kane '82, F.D.N.Y. Engine 22
Joseph A. Mascali '74, F.D.N.Y. Rescue 5
Michael Massaroli '81, Cantor Fitzgerald
Charles Mauro '81, Windows on the World
Robert M. Murach '74, Cantor Fitzgerald  (Team Member and College Fraternity Brother)
Mario Nardone '87, Euro Brokers
Dennis P. O'Berg '91, F.D.N.Y. Ladder 105
James O'Brien '86, Cantor Fitzgerald
James F. Quinn '95, Cantor Fitzgerald
Gregory Reda '85, Marsh & McLennan
Jude Safi'94, Cantor Fitzgerald
Paul R. Salvio '92, Carr Futures
John M. Sbarbaro '74, Cantor Fitzgerald
Patrick Sullivan '87, Cantor Fitzgerald
James Suozzo '72, Cantor Fitzgerald  (Classmate)
Robert F. Tipaldi '94, Cantor Fitzgerald
Thomas F. Wise '75, Marsh & McLennan

  

List of names of people killed in attacks, and a picture of Ground Zero, October 2003.

Photos of the World Trade Center Construction:  http://www.mcny.org/wtc/wtc4.htm

Space Photo of World Trade Center Aftermath: http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/images/NYC-091101-2.jpg

Poem:  newyorker

 

From top: A photo collage of ‘‘Phantom Towers,’’ a temporary monument made of light; a drawing of the same project. Phantom towers conceived by Paul Myoda and Julian LaVerdiere. Original photograph by Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times. Digital manipulation by The New York Times.


Photos of the World Trade Center Light Tribute:   Twin Beams of Light

 

                            

        Fire Fighter Ice Sculpture                                                        Strength in Suffering

 

Another View from Red Hook