9/11: 20 YEARS LATER
Flatbush fi rehouse puts up
mural for FDNY lost on 9/11
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A Flatbush firehouse has
put up a massive new mural
on the side of its building to
commemorate the 343 firefighters
who lost their lives on
September 11, 2001, just as the
twentieth anniversary of the
tragedy looms.
The mural, by artist Joe
Indart, is located on the side
of the firehouse holding Engine
281 and Ladder 147, on
Cortelyou Rd between Argyle
and Westminster roads
in Flatbush; the firehouse,
which has housed both companies
since 1914, along with
the trucks and firefighters
are known colloquially as
“Da Pride A Flatbush.” Like
so many other fire companies
throughout the city, Engine
281 and Ladder 147 responded
to the attacks on the World
Trade Center. While it didn’t
lose any firefighters working
that day, it did lose alumni of
the firehouse. A firefighter at
the station house on Tuesday
said that, 20 years on, no one
working for Da Pride on 9/11
was still working at the station.
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The mural depicts the
Twin Towers of the World
Trade Center draped in an
American flag, with three
firefighter outfits, sans human,
looking on. The outfits
bear the names of three firefighters
who lost their lives on
9/11: Mark Whitford, Timothy
Stackpole, and James J. Corrigan.
None were working at
Da Pride on 9/11, but all had
worked at the firehouse prior
to their deaths.
The new 9/11 mural on the side of the Engine 281/Ladder 147 station house on Cortelyou
Road in Flatbush. Mural by Joe Indart, photo by Ben Brachfeld
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