AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - One block from Ground Zero, a Manhattan bar honors 7,000 first responders with patches on every wall
A cedar-street pub that reopened seven months after the Twin Towers fell has spent nearly a quarter-century stapling the badges of firefighters, cops, EMTs, and soldiers to its walls, and as the 25th anniversary of September 11 approaches, the collection has grown past 7,000. O'Hara's Restaurant and Pub sits one block south of the World […] The post One block from Ground Zero, a Manhattan bar honors 7,000 first responders with patches on every wall appeared first on American Almanac .
A cedar-street pub that reopened seven months after the Twin Towers fell has spent nearly a quarter-century stapling the badges of firefighters, cops, EMTs, and soldiers to its walls, and as the 25th anniversary of September 11 approaches, the collection has grown past 7,000. O'Hara's Restaurant and Pub sits one block south of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. Before September 11, 2001, it was a neighborhood hangout where Wall Street traders, tradesmen, and first responders shared a bar. The attacks buried it in dust and debris. By April 2002 it had reopened, and the construction crews rebuilding Ground Zero made it their after-shift refuge. What happened next was unplanned, and it turned the place into something no one…Open