All Entries Tagged With: "September 11"
Never Forgotten: Looking Back at the Lives White Plains Lost
By Andrew Vitelli and Pat Casey When American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower 17 minutes later, everyone’s world changed. From Lower Manhattan to White Plains, from Baghdad to Kabul, around the world and back, the [...]
Joe Riverso: May 6, 1967 – September 11, 2001
When Mike O’Donnell and Joe Riverso first began their two decades in the Stepinac football program together, O’Donnell was an assistant coach and Riverso was a two-way lineman. O’Donnell knew immediately he had himself a ballplayer. A big, strong kid with surprising coordination and agility, Riverso had the football smarts to match his athleticism. “He [...]
Linda Sheehan: December 16, 1960 – September 11, 2001
In the early 1980s, there were few tougher fields for a woman to break into than the financial industry. That never fazed Linda Sheehan, a striking blond who grew up in Yorktown and graduated from Pace University. She began her career at Bear Stearns and in 1988, when a new firm called Sandler O’Neill & [...]
Gregory E. Rodriguez: November 17, 1969 – September 11, 2001
In his office at Cantor Fitzgerald on the 103rd floor of the North Tower at the World Trade Center, Rodriguez proudly displayed a framed map of the locations of various shipwrecks located in the waters surrounding the New York Metropolitan area. He was known to get up around 4:30 a.m. on a weekend morning, grab [...]
Sharon Balkcom: January 2, 1958 – September 11, 2001
Sharon Balkcom was working as an assistant vice president of technology for Marsh & McLennan, a position she held for about three years, when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower at the World Trade Center. The floors occupied by the company were at the point of direct impact. The attack shattered the hopes [...]
September 11th Exhibitions Come to White Plains, Mahopac
A fragment from either United Airlines Flight 175 or American Airlines Flight 11, a license plate of one of the more than 1,000 vehicles recovered from Ground Zero, an NYPD car door and dozens of “Missing Person” posters are among the artifacts on display in the White Plains Library this month as part of the [...]
White Plains to Hold 9/11 Memorial Service Next Friday
Two days before the 10th anniversary of September 11th, the City of White Plains will hold a commemorative service honoring the six White Plains residents killed in the attacks. The service will be held in Liberty Park at the permanent 9/11 memorial on Friday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m., Mayor Tom Roach announced. The city [...]
