Breezy Point (NY) 9/11 Memorial
The Rockaway Point/Breezy Point community, a private beachfront community located on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City Borough of Queens suffered tremendous losses on 9/11, both of FDNY firefighters and business professionals working in the World Trade Center towers.
To honor the memory of those lost on that fateful day, the community created a beachfront memorial plaza that celebrates the memory of each individual. A wooden boardwalk winds through the memorial passing poems of reflection, personal remembrances of those lost and culminating in a beachfront plaza with etched glass window panes highlighting each community member and their unique interests (this area overlooks the water where the Twin Towers were once visible in the distance).
It should be noted that this memorial, while quite impressive, is not accessible to the public. A private beachfront community, access to the Rockaway Point/Breezy Point cooperative is controlled by toll gates requiring tokens provided by the security force on a very restricted basis. Only through my interaction with the Rockaway Point fire chief was I able to gain access and photograph this impressive monument.