Roosevelt Island Community Remembers The 9/11 Attacks On World Trade Center & Assembling The Tribute In Lights

Image From Main Street WIRE by Vicki Feinmel/Linda Heimer

To this day, the picture above taken from Roosevelt Island is still so shocking. Smoke pouring out behind the 59th Street Bridge from lower Manhattan as the World Trade Center was attacked and burned on what began as a beautiful September New York morning and soon became what is now known as just 9/11.

Image From Main Street WIRE by Vicki Feinmel/Linda Heimer

To commemorate that day, the Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) will be holding a 9/11 Memorial Remembrance on Friday evening:

Friday, September 11, 2009
Memorial Service on Roosevelt Island
Sponsored by Roosevelt Island Residents Association
Sunset Service Commencing at 7:00 p.m.
At the 9/11 Remembrance Garden
Behind the Chapel of the Good Shepherd

Please plan to join your neighbors and Please bring your own candle! (In the event of rain, the Memorial will take place inside Good Shepherd Chapel)

Images of Roosevelt Island's Remembrance Garden

The Main Street WIRE reported on the Memorial's April 2002 dedication ceremony:

...The cherry tree, planted a month after the tragedy, is surrounded by flowers, most planted by members of the Residents Association a few days before the dedication. A single wood bench faces the tree and plaque. Vicki Feinmel, the member of the Residents Association Common Council who organized the memorial and the event, said, “Everyone wanted to do something meaningful and have something permanent on the Island to honor the people we lost from the Island....

the plaque that honors those Roosevelt Islanders who died in the terrorist attack:

Ed Beyea, Anthony J. Fallone, Taimour Khan, Scott Larsen, and Kevin J. Smith – as well as firefighters who were based on Roosevelt Island – Deputy Chief Ray Downey, Deputy Chief Charlie Kasper, Battalion Chief John Moran, and Battalion Chief John Paolillo.

Image From Roosevelt Island 360

and what it was like to live on Roosevelt Island during and immediately after the attacks.

The September 11 Tribute In Lights will also shine on Friday night. I think it is the most moving and appropriate Memorial to the events of 9/11/01. Here's how it is done.

You Tube Video of Assembling The Tribute In Lights