Yonkers Will Never Forget

September 11, 2022 Ceremonies -Photos by Donna Davis

Yonkers Police Commissioner Chris Sapienza, middle, with members of Yonkers Finest at the Riverfront memorial
Mayor Spano throws a flower into the river in memory of the 34 Yonkers lives lost
members of the City Council at Riverfront memorial
Yonkers Junior Idol Jalilah Le’Cruise
members of the Yonkers Fire Department at the Conor Park memorial
The Yonkers Police Color Guard, let by Lt. Richard Alaimo
Reverend William Norman,Yonkers Director of Veterans Services, with Fire Commissioner Tony Pagano
A YPD officer plays taps at the McLean Avenue memorial
Young Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts in attendance
Young Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts were part of all the ceremonies

The City of Yonkers held ceremonies on September 11, 2022 commemorating the 21 anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 that killed 26 Yonkers residents on that day, and the 9 first responders and construction workers who died in the years after.

Conor Park on McLean Avenue, and the memorial on the river with views of downtown Manhattan, are where the ceremonies are held, and the names read. Mayor Mike Spano led riverfront memorial by throwing a flower into the river for those lost. Yonkers Idol Darrin Sanders and Junior Idol Jalilah Le’Cruise sang The National Anthem and God Bless America. The Yonkers Police Color Guard and members of local Boy Scouts presented the colors.

Yonkers Poet Laureate Golda Solomon gave a reading. It was good to see the people of Yonkers unite, and remember on this solemn day.

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