A LOOK BACK.

I remember that day. We were all in the auditorium of St. Fidelis school in Queens for a movie I think. One of the nuns came to the front and said there was an airplane crash and that we were going to pray. I saw more on tv that night at 7 pm when John Tilman reported on WPIX channel 11 and Gloria Okon did the weather. Many, many years later, I worked with a Deputy Chief in EMS who had just started his career as an "Ambulance Attendant", as it was called then, who was assigned to Kings County Hospital. He told me in great detail what the Sterling Place job was like. Small world at times. Continue to rest in peace and God Bless the victims of that two borough disaster.
 
I was a sophomore at St. Francis College which at the time was on Butler St. between Smith St. & Court St., or about 10 blocks from the crash site.  Several of my buddies and I decided to cut class and walk down to see what was going on (you could see the smoke from the campus).  It was a nightmare scene.  Of course we couldn't get really close, but we were near enough to see the tail section of the plane, and the huge fire from the Pillar of Fire church.  Something I'll never forget.
 
Wow, Raybrag; I thought I was old but I was only a senior in high school in Brooklyn when this crash and the Constellation fire occurred.
 
I was working for Chubb & Sons Insurance Co. at 90 John St.I left work and went to E280 picked up my Auxiliary gear and walked to the site. The site was awesome and gruesome at the same time.
 
SI crash site was Miller Field, a US Army airfield in New Dorp.  Fortunately no buildings were struck with flaming wreckage.  E 165 and L 85 were new companies - 1st due.  E 165 arrived at far end of base and crashed thru gate to gain immediate access.  Did not wait for MP access at far end of field.  Engine 165 officer ordered rig to crash thru gate for FDNY units to get to victims.  2nd alarm transmitted by BC Roger Carmody, 23rd Bn.  Probably E 165, E 159, E 162, E 161, E 160, E 152, L 85, L 82, L 81, L 83, R 5 (located at L 78), Bn 21, Bn 21, D 8.

VN Bridge not built till 1964.  E 166/L 86 not organized until 1963.

    http://www.silive.com/news/2010/12/midair_airliner_crash_over_sta.html
 
A little late with my response, sorry, been a few busy days out here......
I remember we heard a boom sometime during the morning and our teacher, at St. Teresa's (on Classon and St. John's) thought it might have been thunder (it was a foggy, cold and damp morning). Walking home a lunch time, all you could hear were sirens and the smell of jet fuel was everywhere. After school I walked over to Flatbush Ave.
Years later, some of the guys in 280 and 132 told me some of the stories from that day. Truly incredible. Continued Rest in Peace to those lost that day.
 
FEBRUARY 26 IN HISTORY ...... FEBRUARY 26, 1993 ...THE WTC BOMBING....CONTINUED REST IN PEACE TO THE SIX...NEVER FORGET ! ..NEVER FORGIVE ! ... www.history.com/news/remembering-the-1993-world-trade-center-bombing ..... FROM WIKIPEDIA..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing ......ALSO ON FEBRUARY 26,1988 A 22 YEAR OLD IS ASSASSINATED IN SOUTH JAMAICA AROUND THE CORNER FROM 303/126 ..... www.nypdangels.com/cop/cop.php?id=71 ....CONTINUED REST IN PEACE PO EDWARD BYRNE....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Byrne_(police_officer) ..... TRIBUTE VIDEO'S IN ARTICLE.. www.americanpolicenews.com/eddie.html .
 
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Dog named after slain NYPD cop guards memorial service
By Tina Moore
February 21, 2018 | 3:30pm | Updated

As hundreds of people filed into St. Patrick?s Cathedral Wednesday morning for a mass in memory of a cop killed 30 years ago, a German shepherd sat quietly outside the church?s doors.
Most people probably didn?t notice the pooch, but he?s special. He?s a vapor wake dog, a class of K-9s trained to detect and deter suicide bombers.
?Today a lot of you didn?t realize as you walked into this beautiful cathedral, you passed by the newest addition to the NYPD,? the department?s head of legal Larry Byrne said.
The new dog is named Eddie after Larry?s brother, Edward R. Byrne, who was killed while sitting in a patrol car outside a Queens home on Feb. 26, 1988, protecting a witness who had agreed to testify about drug activity. A gunman walked up to the car and shot Byrne in the head.
His death sent shock waves through the city and led to a federal grant program in the officer?s name that provides money to state and local departments.
Byrne explained that the dog was named after his brother to make sure people never forget.
About 500 people attended the Byrne memorial in Manhattan ? on what would have been the slain officer?s 52nd birthday.
?Today is Eddie?s birthday,? Byrne said. ?He was killed five days after his 22nd birthday.?
 
^^^^^^ Just as much as there was a take back the City & turnaround in 1988 after the senseless Murder of PO Edward Byrne why are we in the mid to late 2000's backpedaling & coddeling with things like halting "Stop Question & Frisk" & on a lesser note now allowing Quality Of Life Crimes including free rides in Transit ...."Turnstile Jumping" to be disregarded ?... if you ride you should pay...this is all the breakdown of Decent Society for votes.


 
68jk09 said:
^^^^^^ Just as much as there was a take back the City & turnaround in 1988 after the senseless Murder of PO Edward Byrne why are we in the mid to late 2000's backpedaling & coddeling with things like halting "Stop Question & Frisk" & on a lesser note now allowing Quality Of Life Crimes including free rides in Transit ...."Turnstile Jumping" to be disregarded ?... if you ride you should pay...this is all the breakdown of Decent Society for votes.
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I remember being in the South Bronx, with two other friends of mine doing our buffing thing. A police car pulled us over and they got us out of the car. A car with Connecticut plates and the three of us just didn't fit in within the neighborhood about 2 am. The members of the NYPD "stopped us, questioned us and frisked us". And yes, they had their guns pointed right on us.

When it was over of course they apologized to us and let us go. They explained why they stopped us and we fully understood the reason. All of us had no problem with that at all and actually we were GLAD to see that the guys were doing their job.

From their point of view, they had no idea what we were doing down there riding around through some of those drug infested streets. Most people seeing us wouldn't think us guys are just out chasing fire trucks. So I'm sure those cops felt the same way too. That's why they pulled us over.
 
DUCK & COVER... (how many kids could not go to sleep at night because of this threat back then ?)....
 
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NYC 1911..(My Father was 1 yr old then)..i was always curious about the "dress code" back in those days..where were they all going dressed up ?....how many of us have walked these same streets in later times ?.... https://petapixel.com/2018/04/17/take-a-trip-through-new-york-city-in-the-year-1911/
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Great video, Chief; thanks for posting.  What struck me was the HUGE women's hats . . . and they all were wearing one.  BTW:  my father was 6 in 1911.
 
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