While Mayor de Blasio, who was befriended by then-Uniformed Firefighters Association President Jimmy Boyle when he was a young aide to Mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990s, did not attend Mr. Boyle’s funeral Nov. 5, Rudy Giuliani was among the mourners.
The former Mayor, whom Mr. Boyle supported during his short-lived run for President in 2008 because of the compassion he showed for the survivors of firefighters like his son Michael who were killed on 9/11, was part of the reviewing line along Post Ave. in Westbury for the procession to St. Brigid’s Church. He stayed for the two-hour funeral service, but seemed uncomfortable afterward standing on the reviewing line prior to the final procession and left before it took place.
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