Tag: 9/11
For two hours on Monday afternoon, the city’s emergency response system was down. Dispatchers had to go straight analog by writing down calls and radio-ing them in from 2:15 – 4:05 PM, according to the Daily News. Perhaps the most frightening part is that when the computerized system is down, dispatchers have no way of […]
The tall, ugly building that’s referred to as One WTC — even though it looks like nothing like the original North Tower of the same name that was destroyed on 9/11 — officially opened its doors for business on Monday. It’s being widely reported that Conde Nast has started to transfer its workforce from Times […]
Three NYFD veterans died of cancer on the same day this week. Daniel Heglund, Robert Leaver and Lt. Howard Bischoff each succumbed to bone cancer, leukemia and colon cancer respectively. They join a list of 92 first responders who have died from conditions sustained from their exposure to toxins on 9/11. There are also 67,000 people […]
More complaints have emerged about the 9/11 Museum at Ground Zero reports the Daily News. First responders and their families were outraged to discover several explanatory panels in the museum that cast doubt on the connection between air quality at Ground Zero following the attacks and the first responders’ subsequent health issues. Kimberly Flynn and […]
Around NYC today–in places like the Financial District, Union Square, and Bedford Avenue–modified pedestrian traffic lights are displaying two orange towers and the message “9/11. Forward. Together.” in place of the usual flashing hand. Created by a group of international students from Miami Ad School Brooklyn, the intervention art is intended “to show people that sharing the memory […]
Last night just before closing time at the Lens branch of the Louvre Museum, a 28-year-old woman with a “French-sounding name” transformed defaced Eugene Delacroix’s epic 1830 painting Liberty Leading The People. Either an ardent supporter of King Charles X of France, or more likely a 9/11 Truther, the woman scralled “AE911,” shorthand for “Architects […]
