Postcards 9/11 Memorial Honors Staten Island Victims
Photo by Steven WhiteFDNY Fireboat 343 gives a water display at the ceremony.
Photo by Steven WhiteAn FDNY member pays his respects.
Photo by Steven WhiteA guest puts a rose on their loved ones profile.
Photo by Steven WhiteA photo of the Postcards 9/11 Memorial that faces NY Harbor and the World Trade Center. Profiles of all the Staten Islanders lost are etched in stone inside the memorial.
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, Staten Island’s Postcards Memorial continues to serve as a place of remembrance for residents, firefighters and other first responders lost as a result of the attacks and their aftermath.
The memorial stands along the North Shore waterfront in St. George, Staten Island, New York, facing Lower Manhattan and the former site of the World Trade Center. Designed by architect Masayuki Sono and dedicated in 2004, Postcards consists of two large, wing-like structures containing individual granite plaques. The plaques include victims’ names, birth dates, workplaces and profile silhouettes.
The September 11, 2001 attacks claimed the lives of 343 FDNY members, along with members of other emergency-service and law-enforcement agencies and thousands of civilians. The impact was particularly significant on Staten Island, where many residents worked in Manhattan or served in the city’s fire, police and emergency-service ranks.
Remembrance at the site also recognizes that the loss to the emergency-services community did not end in 2001. A nearby First Responders Memorial recognizes responders who later died from illnesses associated with their work at Ground Zero.
For the 25th anniversary observances in 2026, FDNY officials held a wreath-laying ceremony at Postcards on September 9 before the Department’s World Trade Center Memorial Service at the neighboring FerryHawks stadium. An FDNY fireboat conducted a water salute in New York Harbor as part of the observance.
Two days later, Staten Island held its annual September 11 Memorial Ceremony at Postcards. Families read the names of those lost, bells tolled during the remembrance, and roses were placed at both Postcards and the First Responders Memorial.
For members of the fire and emergency-services community, Postcards documents both the immediate losses of September 11 and the continuing impact of World Trade Center rescue and recovery operations. Its location across the harbor from Lower Manhattan provides a permanent place for families, responders and the public to remember those who were lost and those whose service continued in the days, months and years that followed.
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