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W.B. Fishbowl
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Further:
Interesting to note that the spotlighting system is from an Italian firm, and that, interestingly enough, this "tribute" was only supposed to run for a few years.
Yes, we CANNOT forget that day, nor forget those brave first responders, many of whom, sadly, have either since passed on, or are now suffering from the toxic fallout from Ground Zero. 
These were the REAL heroes!! 
"NYO"
["NEW YORK'S BRAVEST"]
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One of those "9/11 casualties" may well have been disco legend Donna Summer, who died of cancer in 2012; she lived in the area when 9/11 occurred, and may have been so "poisoned." |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
As I worked on Wall Street then, we were required (NYSE mandate) to wear masks; I never took mine off until I was well above Lower Manhattan on the ferry, or when I boarded an uptown "Eye-Are-Tee" train.
To see that huge empty space where the Towers once stood (eerily recalling Hiroshima), especially when still full of smoldering rubble, was light-years beyond surreal.
Cannot believe it is now over 20 years ago, now................
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2024 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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This is beyond sobering........
Heard on 1010 WINS earlier that today more people have died due to 9/11-related diseases than died on 9/11 itself. 
Those first responders (NYFD/NYPD) were/are the REAL heroes, not today's grossly-overpaid ball players.
Truly sad..................
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2024 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | This is beyond sobering........
Heard on 1010 WINS earlier that today more people have died due to 9/11-related diseases than died on 9/11 itself.
Those first responders (NYFD/NYPD) were/are the REAL heroes, not today's grossly-overpaid ball players.
Truly sad..................
"NYO"
["NEW YORK'S BRAVEST"]
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For a number of reasons, my late mother was more enamoured with the FDNY than the NYPD. But she would likely have agreed with your sentiments on this issue. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
In a book I have, ""NEW YORK CITY FIRE TRUCKS" (Sorenson/Wood). there is a reprint of a political "cartoon" which is truly sobering.
It depicts a group of FDNY men at the Pearly Gates, just after 9/11; one fellow is on his walky-talky:
"We've reached the top" (all the men sport halos)
It was drawn by Mike Luckovich (Atlanta Constitution)
Besides the FDNY men lost, much equipment was also destroyed, including:
19 pumpers
18 ladder and tower ladders
2 rescue units
1 rescue support unit
1 satellite wagon
2 fleet maintenance trucks
10 ambulances
24 sedans
19 GMC Suburbans.
This list does not include the equipment that had been damaged.
Yes, these men were the TRUE Heroes of the City; may those who perished RIP............
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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From the aforementioned book..........
".....in the FDNY's shops, 200 men worked 12-hour shifts, cleaning and repairing serviceable units, and stripping usable equipment from those damaged rigs which were to be scrapped......"
"......astonishingly, some 80 pieces of FDNY equipment were removed from the WTC scene, cleaned, repaired, tested, and placed back into service within four days of the disaster.........."
Talk about UNSUNG heroes! 
"NYO"
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | From the aforementioned book..........
".....in the FDNY's shops, 200 men worked 12-hour shifts, cleaning and repairing serviceable units, and stripping usable equipment from those damaged rigs which were to be scrapped......"
"......astonishingly, some 80 pieces of FDNY equipment were removed from the WTC scene, cleaned, repaired, tested, and placed back into service within four days of the disaster.........."
Talk about UNSUNG heroes!
"NYO"
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And that's the difference between equipment made "back then" and those made in the years since. Indestructibility in the face of something like this. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2024 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Agreed.
Consider how "advanced" we "pedestrians" thought FDNY rigs were, 20-odd years ago, and how much more complex and electronically sophisticated the rigs in use today are.
Regardless, those FDNY men who responded so bravely and valiantly on that horrific day indeed personified what a true HERO is...........
"NYO"
["FDNY"]
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Sidenote:
For many years, FDNY's "MARINE COMPANY 9" was based at St. George.
For a number of years, an FDNY boat would be docked in one of the old 69th Street Ferry's slips, idle since late 1964 (Your's Truly personally recalls seeing an FDNY boat docked here).............
"NYO"
BTW:
In Brian J. Cudahy's outstanding book: "AROUND MANHATTAN ISLAND AND OTHER MARITIME TALES OF NEW YORK", there is an excellent (and VERY thorough) illustrated chapter on this history and development of the FDNY's fireboat fleet............
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Memories....that's all that remains (let us NEVER forget the bravery of the great heroes....nor those no longer with us); how much a part of my soul these now-obliterated scenes were, for so many years......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?88097
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?22192
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
["PATH TRAINS TO NEW JERSEY"]
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W.B. Fishbowl
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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And with the "Are-Fordy-Sixes" being put to pasture, doubly so. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Liberty & Greenwich, 1979..........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155866
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
This never-to-be-seen-again scene is one Your's Tuly saw twice a day for many years, if he was coming in from NJ via "the tubes".
When this long-ago photo was taken, I was only 22, and had only been "woiking" on "The Street" for several months.
Look closely at the batwing ad displayed by "stoa" Fishbowl #8473; perhaps a chilling foretelling of what great tragedy was to occur here, 22 years later....
"NYO"
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Date this timeless Brooklyn scene to 1981.......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153267
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
Like the GRUMMAN in the foreground, the soaring Twin Towrers themselves are now but memories.....how much we all took for granted......
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