UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) — A promise was fulfilled on Saturday to never forget a hero of September 11th.<\/p>\n
The intersection of Madison Avenue and 101st Street was renamed for NYPD Officer John William Perry.<\/p>\n
Perry’s brother and sister revealed the new sign.<\/p>\n
Perry was the last of the 23 police officers discovered to have died in the attacks. That is because he worked in the Bronx and it was his day off.<\/p>\n
Perry showed up at police headquarters and then darted ahead of a group that had assembled there.<\/p>\n
“I said, ‘my brother, he’s gonna be there. I know John. If there’s something serious happening, he’s gonna be there,'” said his sister, Janice Perry Montoya.<\/p>\n
“It’s the greatest pain I ever experienced in my life and people ask me 25 years later what it’s like. It’s the same. The pain is still there. I broke down the other day,” added his brother, Joel Perry.<\/p>\n
Officer Perry was also a lawyer.<\/p>\n
The street bearing his name is near Central Park because he often ran there.<\/p>\n
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