9/11: What is remembered, and how is it remembered?

Over the last year, I have taken a number of photos of New York City firefighter neighborhood 9/11 memorials. In my view, this tragedy has been fading from our collective memory. I wanted to document these “unofficial” memorials, to see what is still around and how time has affected them over the past two decades. Are those spaces still set aside for commemoration of that day, or has city life engulfed them? I wanted to see what these memorials say about our memories.

Many of them include the words “Never Forget,” but I wonder — even for something as catastrophic as 9/11, will we eventually “Forget”?    ❖

Firefighter Peter Bielfeld, Bronx Allan Molho

 

Firefighters Kenneth Kumpel, William McGinn, and Thomas O’Hagen, Bronx Allan Molho

 

Engine 243, Brooklyn Allan Molho

 

First responders, Brooklyn Allan Molho

 

Firefighter Joseph Patrick Henry, Brooklyn Allan Molho

 

In memory of September 11, 2001, Manhattan Allan Molho

More FDNY neighborhood memorials can be seen here: www.memorialsnewyork.com

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