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On Sept. 11, 2001, Brooklyn found itself with a front-row seat to Al Qaeda’s attack on the World Trade Center. From graveyards to golf courses, private schools to housing projects, the impact of the tragedy spread throughout our borough. Ten years later, Brooklyn Ink’s writers examine how loss, grief, memory, and recovery touched us differently. But whether family or friend, firefighter or fanatic, it touched us all.
BAM Gives New York Premiere to Memorial Composition
Kronos Quartet will perform “Awakening” for four nights later this month Read more …
A Brownsville Firefighter, Lost on 9/11, Lives on Through Affordable Homes
In the neighborhood where Vernon Cherry started his career, townhouses bear his name and honor his sacrifice Read more …
Memorial Marks the Sacrifice of “65-2” Firefighters
Richie Manetta of Brooklyn was one of those whose death is believed to have been caused by exposure to toxins at Ground Zero. Read more …
Flags Fly to Remember a Neighbor Who Never Came Home That Day
For years, the residents held an annual end-of-summer block party. After 9/ll, the neighborhood decided to move the party closer to September 11. Read more …
One Woman’s Commitment Brings Honor to Red Hook’s Fallen
A Cuban immigrant, who had never even visited a fire station before 9/11, led the campaign to rename three streets. Read more …
Detention Program Still Afflicts Bay Ridge’s Arabs and Muslims
The controversial federal policy has been dropped, but that’s no help to families broken up by its deportations. Read more …
A Grassroots Memorial Honors Sheepshead Bay’s Victims
Grieving over their losses, neighborhood residents turned a handball court into a wall of memory. Read more …
Tragedy Across the River, Handled by a Fire Dispatcher in Brooklyn
Fire dispatch recordings capture the ‘organized madness’ of the emergency response on Sept. 11. Read more …
Two Kinds of Comradeship: Soldiers Turn Firefighters after September 11
A fire company in Bushwick, which lost six men in the Al Qaeda attack, has been replenished by military veterans. Read more …
A Muslim School Marks the Tenth Anniversary with Memories of Bias
Al-Noor’s students became targets after the Sept. 11 attacks, and have gone to great lengths to prove their value as Americans. Read more …
For the Siller Brothers, an Empty Tee on the Golf Course
Their firefighter sibling, Stephen, never made it to their family game on Sept. 11, 2001. Read more …
From a Hilltop Cemetery, A Gravedigger’s View of Tragedy
Anthony Manero remembers watching the planes destroy the Twin Towers and burying five victims. Read more …
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