Photo Gallery: Queens Plane Crash. Our New Celebrity Culture - Irish Voice. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1524932.html. ON the morning of September 11, 21-year-old Brian Monaghan and Martin Coughlan, 53, were on top the world - literally.
Monaghan, who had lived in the old Manhattan Irish stronghold of Inwood, and Coughlan, a Tipperary native, were two of 150 carpenters working on the highest floors of both Twin Towers. Then, of course, the world collapsed around them. While the numbers of missing and dead for the city's rescue workers are staggering, heavily-Irish unions such as Carpenter's Local 608, also lost many brothers in the lower Manhattan carnage. Like Monaghan, many had spent their lives in New York's Irish enclaves. Others such as Coughlan had come to America to raise children - Coughlan had four - and make a better life.
But as of last Tuesday, some 16 union carpenters alone are missing or dead as a result of the terrorist attack. A memorial mass will be held on October 3 at St. Bagpipes from the Transit Authority band blared. "What they have that others don't have is closure. Www.irishtribute.com - lost person. Twin Tragedies Take Best Friends By SARA KUGLERAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- They called themselves RIBs, for Rockaway Irish Boys.
They grew up together, went to high school together at Xavier and attended basketball camp together at Fordham University. Charlie Heeran, 23, died in the collapse of the World Trade Center. Questions Of Faith And Doubt - Voices Of September 11. We're a community in mourning; we were hit pretty bad.
I knew close to 30 people who died at the World Trade [Center]. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1524924.html. IT'S ONE of the most enduring images we have of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
In the chaotic hours following the deadly assault, when the fear of further attacks was still extremely high and the fate of so many New Yorkers was still unknown, three city firefighters did something so simple, yet so extraordinary, considering the circumstances. They raised up an American flag that had been displaced among the wreckage and destruction around them. The photo that ran in various newspapers the day afterwards inspired New Yorkers and Americans still struggling to regain some sense after the inhumane attack, and that image will remain with them for years to come. It was so appropriate, and yet so bitterly ironic, that one of the firefighters in the picture was George Johnson, who is a resident of Rockaway in the borough of Queens. If there were just one area in New York that could use all the inspiration it could get right now, it would have to be Rockaway. Hit So Hard by 9/11, Rockaway Struggles to Let Go. Just off the boardwalk, towheaded children bounced on a blow-up trampoline.
Grown-ups bantered and showed off babies. An annual charity event was starting off summer on the Rockaway peninsula, a sliver of Queens jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Rockaway Beach, Queens. Public library Police station Firehouse Early history[edit] 1800s[edit] What is now Rockaway Beach was formerly two different villages, Holland (as in Tunnel) and Hammels.
The rockaway peninsula. ROXBURY, FORT TILDEN, BREEZY POINT, Queens. BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY contributor The Rockaway Peninsula of Queens never disappoints an urban explorer.
Physically separated from the rest of New York City by water, it often feels like a forgotten sixth borough. The borough’s southwestern tip, Breezy Point is a collection of gated communities, military history, and unspoiled nature. Without a special parking pass, my only options here are either walking or biking. After parking my car in Roxbury, I explored this quiet cape. Sweet 116 Memorials and flophouses in Rockaway Park. For such a narrow spit of land, the Rockaway Peninsula is home to many separate communities: Neponsit, Belle Harbor, Rockaway Park, Rockaway Beach, Arverne, Edgemere, Bayswater, and where it meets the rest of Long Island, Far Rockaway.
Beach 116th Street is the main street of Rockaway Park, extending two short blocks from Beach Channel Drive on the north to Ocean Promenade on the south. It is the western terminus of the lengthy IND A train, which reaches all the way north to Inwood in Manhattan. A Walk Down Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park, Queens. See what's new on the Big Map: Hallets Cove Esplanade and Astoria Boulevard in Astoria, Queens (2/17/14); Whitey Ford Field in Astoria, Queens (2/14/14); Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village, Queens (2/6/14); Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, Sarasota Jungle Gardens and The Ringling on Florida's Gulf Coast (2/1/14); Super Bowl Boulevard in Midtown Manhattan (1/31/14); Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona (1/24/14); Discovering Columbus Exhibition in Columbus Circle, Midtown Manhattan (1/18/14); Oyster Bay Oyster Festival in Oyster Bay, Long Island (1/4/14); Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens (9/21/13); Shuttle Enterprise Flyover at the Intrepid in Manhattan (9/19/13); Great Jones Street in Noho, Manhattan (9/17/13); Barclays Center, Brooklyn Flea at the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and the defunct Dekalb Market in Brooklyn (9/16/13); Acadia National Park, Portland Head Light and Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory in Maine (8/16/13) Back to Rockaway Park Main Page.
Shore Front Parkway (unbuilt) In 1941, the New York City Planning Department proposed a "Beach Channel Express Highway" through the Rockaways from the Marine Parkway Bridge east to the Cross Bay Parkway Bridge.
Unlike Moses' proposal, which called for the construction of a parkway restricted to use by passenger cars, the city's plan called for the construction of an expressway open to all vehicles. ROCKAWAY BEACH, Queens. In the 80s, Tony Carey sang about “The First Day of Summer,” and I thought since this was the last day of summer, with forecasters saying this is the last 85-degree day for awhile, to seek out Rockaway Park and Rockaway Beach…former Playland and present Irish Riviera.
Rockaway, depending on what translation is used, means “sandy place” or “place of our people.” A small coterie of Canarsie Indians occupied Rockaway Peninsula until European invasions began in the 16th Century; by 1640 it was under Dutch control. Its story as a resort begins in 1833 when a wealthy group calling themselves the Rockaway Association purchased beachfront property from the Cornell family, which owned much of Rockaway from colonial times, and built the Marine Hotel, which was patronized by many of the era’s bright lights including Washington Irving, Henry W.
Rockaway Beach NY Irish Day Parade 3/3/2012. EDGEMERE, Queens. NEED ANY MORE proof that New York City is a strange and occasionally confusing place…that it can occasionally baffle anyone looking for common sense in urban planning…or a place that can give urban explorers fits of head scratching? Take a look at Edgemere on the Rockaway peninsula, whose mile after mile of ocean beach front has been left to rot. Edgemere, at least in the part of it south of the elevated, presents what would appear to be a developer’s dream: an endless vista of sea and sky along the Atlantic Avenue; south of here your next landfall is Central America. In a sane world, it would be lined with parks and nature trails; or, perhaps, amusement areas rivaling Coney Island; or even gambling meccas like Atlantic City. Instead, this is reality in Edgemere… Forgotten New YorkForgotten New York. The Rockaways, Queens. Gary Younge on the post-9/11 US plane crash that remains worryingly unresolved.
Father Michael Geraghty thought things were winding down by early November 2001. The previous two months had been intensely traumatic for his parish in Belle Harbor, Queens. He had lost 12 of his flock in the September 11 attacks - six were working in the twin towers, another six were firefighters who had gone in to try to save them. "In our particular parish we were having masses and memorials constantly at that time," Geraghty says. "It was a difficult process following the World Trade Centre because families had to begin grieving without knowing for sure if their loved ones were dead - identifying the missing took so long. " The last of the memorials was on Friday November 9. Irish firefighter at New York crash. A New York firefighter, originally from Dublin, has described what he found when he went to help after the crash of a passenger jet in the Queens district.
Sean Cummins, who comes from Finglas, now lives in Queens and was one of the first fire officers on the scene because he was off-duty at the time of the crash. Emergency workers have been pulling bodies from the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed, near the city's John F Kennedy airport, killing all 255 people on board on Monday. It had been bound for the Dominican Republic when it lost an engine and nosedived into the Rockaway Beach residential area four minutes after taking off from JFK airport at 0913 local time. 'No survivors' New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said there were no survivors among the 246 passengers and nine crew. A further six people who were residents of Rockaway Beach have been reported missing. Sean Cummins said there were bodies everywhere when he arrived on the scene. Cause still unclear. In Queens, The Wounds Of Sept. 11 Are Reopened.
November 13, 2001|By MIKE SWIFT, JANICE D'ARCY And DAVE ALTIMARI; Courant Staff Writers NEW YORK — At a memorial service Friday, Gail Allen said a final goodbye to her oldest son, 31-year old probationary firefighter Richard Allen, who had been in Tower One of the World Trade Center when it collapsed on Sept. 11. With that memory still fresh Monday morning, she was taking out the trash in front of her home when she heard a deafening roar. ``You heard a terrible noise,'' said Allen, struggling to describe the indescribable. ``Something just fell from the sky.'' Just a block from her house on 130th Street, an American Airlines Airbus A300 jet that had just taken off from nearby John F. Wave of Long Island. Oy Vey Rockaway. Copyright Vivian R. Carter 2009. Flashbacks to September 11 From Rockaway Crash. Where's the story? 21 Points Mentioned Flashbacks to September 11 From Rockaway Crash. 220 Beach 136st, Belle Harbor, NY 11694.
Among 11694 homes, this home is valued 40.6% less than the midpoint (median) home, and is valued 53.1% less per square foot. Foreclosures will be a factor impacting home values in the next several years. Flight 587 Jet Plane Crash. Rockawayplanecrash. Families Mark Two-Year Anniversary Of Flight 587 Crash. Rockaway Beach Reunion Web Site. About the Film : The Bungalows Of Rockaway documentary. The Bungalows of Rockaway, 2010, RT: 56:37 "The Bungalows of Rockaway, the documentary by the gifted filmmaker Jennifer Callahan, is an incisive analysis of urban policy making, and at the same time a vivid and compassionate portrayal of the injustice that a city's misguided policies can play on the lives of its most impoverished citizens.
Baltimore Post-ExaminerBaltimore Post-Examiner. My New York journalist friend Robert Walzer, who lives out on Long Island and enjoys a good pun — especially those involving the names of capital cities, states, obscure countries and ethnic groups — is always Tallinn me I should write about my experiences. Maybe he’s got a point. I’m already 50 and Asian just a little more every year, and Sunni won’t remember anything at all. So all right already, here’s Astoria too.
Irish Tribute: Irish Voice. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/irish_voice/viewer.adp@article=1571705.html. NYPD Detective, stationed at the Arson and Explosion Squad at Police Headquarters Background Grandparents emigrated from Co Cork. Terror attack survivors tell of rescue. The last two people to be pulled alive from the destroyed World Trade Centre today told how they were saved by a pair of handcuffs. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1524076.html. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1515013.html. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1516703.html. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1516704.html. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1516708.html. Www.irishtribute.com/911-01/viewer.adp@article=1523905.html.