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FDNY Resumes Traditional Gathering

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 10/8/21

Thousands of members of the FDNY resumed the tradition, after a one-year hiatus caused by the coronavirus, of assembling at the Firemen’s Memorial on Riverside Drive Oct. 6 to mark the department’s annual Memorial Day commemoration of active-duty members who died over the course of the prior year. 

Last year, the department opted to produce a virtual event with a scaled-down ceremony at the department’s Brooklyn Headquarters.

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