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St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street may be the most sacred space in New York City. Long revered for its Franciscan ministry to the poor, the daily breadline for the homeless and, especially, for one extraordinary friar, Father Mychal Judge. Father Mychal was the FDNY chaplain who, on September 11, 2001, left the friary on 31st Street and rushed to the World Trade Center … [Read more...] about Father Mychal Judge
Long before the news was out in the media on Sunday evening, up and down the Rockaway Peninsula, they knew something was going horribly wrong at a house fire in Canarsie. Over the Fire Department's radio, they heard the calls that a ceiling collapsed inside a two-story house as a routine fire was suddenly raging. The Brooklyn firefighters are known for aggressive pursuit … [Read more...] about Firefighter Timothy Klein “The Canarsie Kid”
World Irish Dance Championships Belfast is hosting the World Irish Dance Championships from April 10-17 and for the first time, the event will be streamed online in its entirety (via subscription) on FeisTV. This annual event, which draws thousands of Irish dancers from around the world, is hosted by An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha (The Irish Dancing Commission) In 1975, at … [Read more...] about News Roundup April 9, 2022
When the dust settled on September 11, 343 firefighters were listed as missing, and later pronounced dead. In this excerpt from her upcoming book, Lynn Tierney, then a deputy commissioner at the Fire Department of New York, writes about the difficult task of eulogizing her colleagues. Eulogies There came a time in my life, through the autumn of 2001, when I wrote … [Read more...] about “Be Not Afraid”
9/11 Bill Passes the Senate. New Yorkers were sweating through a brutal heat wave at the end of July this year when grim news began circulating, from Briggs Avenue in the Bronx and East 111th Street in Harlem to the quieter suburbs of Westchester County and the historically Irish enclaves in Long Island and the New York City boroughs, where generations of New York City cops, … [Read more...] about A Win For Heroes
