The Reeves Park community will mark the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attack that claimed more than 3,000 lives on Sept. 11, 2001 with a procession on Park Road/Thomas Kelly Memorial Drive and candlelight remembrance ceremony at the 9-11 Memorial Park on Friday, Sept. 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to join the procession, which will begin at the corner of Park Road/Thomas Kelly Memorial Drive and Marine Street and continue to the memorial park on the corner of Sound Avenue.
The road was named in memory of NYC firefighter and Reeves Park resident Thomas Kelly, who perished in the World Trade Center collapse.
The park was built in 2013 on a four-acre site acquired by Suffolk County for that purpose after local residents protested its planned development with retail shops and a restaurant. The southeast corner of the Sound Avenue intersection had been home to a small 9-11 memorial, including a piece of steel from the fallen tower where Kelly died and the Sound Park Heights Civic Association along with Kelly’s brother Bob, also a NYC firefighter, led the fight to create the memorial park.
“It is so easy to go through our daily activities as the years have passed,” former Sound Park Heights Civic Association president Eric Biegler said in an email announcing the services. “Please take time out to affirm with all of us that ‘We Will Never Forget.'”
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