{"id":344814,"date":"2026-09-12T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344814\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:42:14","slug":"news-12-bronx-city-of-yonkers-holds-annual-911-memorial-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344814\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | City Of Yonkers Holds Annual 911 Memorial Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The City of Yonkers marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Friday by honoring 46 residents who lost their lives during and after the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The annual remembrance ceremony paid tribute to victims of the attacks, service members and those who later died from illnesses linked to their response and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For the first time, Mayor Mike Spano presented pieces of steel from the World Trade Center to Yonkers first responders, recognizing their service and sacrifice. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The ceremony concluded with first responders, elected officials and family members tossing flowers into the Hudson River in honor of those who were lost. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThose that attacked us that day were terrorists, and those who defended us that day were heroes,\u201d Spano said during the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Yonkers marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Friday by honoring 46&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-344814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344814","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=344814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}