Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, communities across the Bronx are coming together to remember the people who were killed and those who stepped up to help.<\/p>\n
Children from P.S. 108 opened a memorial ceremony Friday at NYC Health + Hospitals\/Jacobi with song. None of them was alive when the attacks happened, but their voices helped carry the memory of that day into a new generation.<\/p>\n
Inside Jacobi\u2019s 9\/11 Memorial Garden, names were read aloud. After, attendees stepped forward and placed flowers at the memorial.<\/p>\n
The ceremony also honored Jacobi workers who prepared to treat patients as the scale of the emergency became clear.<\/p>\n
In video testimonials shared ahead of the ceremony, staff members reflected on what they saw and experienced that morning.<\/p>\n
Christopher Fugazy, a senior associate executive director at Jacobi, remembered seeing smoke as he traveled on the Hutchinson River Parkway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could see smoke billowing away from the city from the Hutch,\u201d Fugazy said. \u201cI arrived in the executive office, and we were already in full disaster mode.\u201d<\/p>\n
For attendee Irene Estrada, the connection to that day is something she can still hold in her hand. Estrada brought a small stone she said came from the remains of the World Trade Center towers.<\/p>\n
She said the stone is a reminder that people should not simply move on from Sept. 11, but continue remembering what happened and the lives that were changed.<\/p>\n
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark told those gathered that the focus should not only be on how people died, but also on how they lived.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a terrible, terrible day and tragedy in the history of this country and this borough,\u201d Clark said, noting that the Bronx lost 144 people.<\/p>\n
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said she believes Sept. 11 should become a national holiday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel comfortable doing anything on 9\/11 other than honoring the men and women who sacrificed \u2014 the heroes and sheroes,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n
Remembrance events are continuing across the borough.<\/p>\n
The Throggs Neck community will gather at 7 p.m. Friday at its neighborhood memorial near East Tremont Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway service road, beside FDNY Engine 72.<\/p>\n
The memorial bears the names of 15 people from the community who were killed on Sept. 11, 2001. It was recently refreshed, with the stone repainted and its lighting restored.<\/p>\n
Gibson will also hold a remembrance event Monday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lou Gehrig Plaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, communities across the Bronx are coming together to remember the people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-344129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}