9 11 Memorial

“Hello?” “Hi Mom, it’s Giede.” “Hey sweetheart, how nice of you to call! Are you in New York now?” “Yes, I just arrived at the hotel.” “Great. How was your flight?” “It was fine. We left Amsterdam a little late, but landed right on time. The shuttle from the airport to the hotel took forever…

You may know that when the Taliban took over, the Biden administration froze the $7 billion pile of assets the former Afghan government’s central bank had been storing with them. The assets stored by Da Afghanistan Bank — Afghan central bank — in New York include stuff like currency, bonds…

Think Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia — but make it New York — that’s the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. St. John sits in the Upper Westside of Manhattan, serving as a freeform space for nondenominational prayer and community events, like its annual Poet’s Corner. Meredith Bergmann, a poet…

How Could We Ever Forget… Over the last twenty years, we have learned a new rhythm….The end of summer comes, there is a flurry of activity about getting kids prepared for and off to school, and then, the moment all settles down the weight of solemn remembrance overshadows everything but…

Mariah was born in 1990. Shortly after her birth, she was adopted and grew up with her parents, Walt and Cathy Mills, in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Mariah was 16 on Sept. 11, 2001. She remembers waking up that morning with a horrible premonition that one of her birth parents…

There’s the American politics we see in the news and then there’s how things actually get done in D.C. That process is foreign to many normal Americans, and the truth is it can be a complicated dance involving horse-trading and backdoor deals to appease special interests. …

The Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Memorial Wall honors the 343 firefighters who sacrificed their lives on September 11, 2001. It hangs at FDNY Ten House, home of Engine 10 and Ladder 10 companies. Five men from Ten House died on 9/11, about half of the…

In the hours following the attack on the World Trade Center, as smoke clouded the sky and sirens echoed through the streets, a crowd gathered near the former St. Vincent’s Hospital where first responders brought victims. Across the street, on a chain link fence surrounding the MTA parking lot, people…