Good Morning, Brooklyn: Friday, September 10, 2021
FDNY MASS TO COMMEMORATE 9/11: NY Fire Department personnel will participate in a Mass on Saturday morning to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in which many of their FDNY comrades were killed. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn will be the main celebrant at the noon Mass taking place at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, 856 Pacific St., in Prospect Heights. Members of the FDNY’s Battalion 57 in Brooklyn will first lead a procession over the Brooklyn Bridge to the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, with marchers carrying flags, with 24 FDNY standards representing the 23 members of Battalion 57 who were lost at the World Trade Center and the brother of a member of the Battalion who also died that day, along with one American flag.
Firefighters from different parts of the country, as well as personnel from FDNY firehouses throughout New York City, will also be in attendance.
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