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A Win For Heroes

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Photographer Peter Foley spent months documenting the aftermath of 9/11.

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

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