beyond the name

Jaime Amoroso lost her husband who worked for Port Authority Police at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. A photograph showed him rescuing a woman that day, but her identity remained a mystery until now.

In honor of this year’s 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, the Buglisi Dance Theatre, Dance/NYC and Lincoln Center perform a reimagined interpretive dance and spoken word performance. Table of Silence Project 9/11 was first launched 10 years ago on the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center. Since then, over 1,400 diverse professional dancers, musicians and singers have…

One of the 2,996 people who died on the Sept. 11 terror attacks holds special resonance with Chuck Scarborough. He shares why.

Clinton Davis Sr. was not scheduled to work on 9/11, but his family knew he would be at the World Trade Center that fateful day, just like he was in 1993 during the first attack. He was in the north tower helping people evacuate, when it collapsed. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A star baseball player at Poly Prep in Brooklyn, Joseph Della Pietra went on to college at Columbia and then scored his first job at Cantor Fitzgerald after graduation. Jen Maxfield introduces her Columbia classmate and friend.

Table of Silence is an annual free performance honoring the lives lost 20 years ago on 9/11/01 while reflecting on the current crises of today. Buglisi Dance Theatre, Lincoln Center, and Dance/NYC partnered together to reimagine this year’s project. News 4’s Linda Gaudino reports.

Firefighter David DeRubbio had a knack for making family and friends smile. A Brooklyn native, he was passionate about music, Nascar, and the FDNY. DeRubbio died a hero on 9/11/01 during the attacks on the Twin Towers.
(Reported by Chris Glorioso | Produced & edited by Linda Gaudino)

The WNBC engineer was overseeing the station’s transmitter atop the World Trade Center on 9/11, and left behind a family that will always remember the man known for his inventions and his love of his 1962 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, which he would use to take the family to their favorite beach on Long Island. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

Vernon Richardson was the only black firefighter to lose his life on Sept. 11, 2001. As the 20th anniversary of the attacks approaches, his daughter remembers him with Myles Miller.

Michael Dorian rushed toward Ground Zero after the towers fell. And years later – he had to prove he was there. David Ushery helped him prove his case in 2018, and delivers this remembrance.

NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford found that one 9/11 victim’s legacy still lives on in Harlem, where a son now serves as a pastor at the same church where his mother used to sing in the choir.

Adam Kuperstein takes you beyond a name found at the Sept. 11 Memorial by talking to Titus Davidson’s daughter, Tanya Dale, about the last time they talked — seconds before the South Tower fell — and his love for her and cigars.

NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports on Chris Mello, a 9/11 victim from NY who was a poet, a voracious reader and a so-called closet cartoonist who now has scholarships in his name given to players in the annual Rye-Harrison football game. A plaque in his honor also hangs at a local YMCA, helping keep the memory of Chris alive.

From athlete to artist, Christopher Mello had a kinetic smile and enjoyed a range of activities, such as football, sketching and writing poetry. A passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, Mello died on Sept. 11, 2001 at 25 years old.

‘Beyond the Name’ is the docu-series honoring those lost 20 years later after the 9/11 attacks. (Reported by Marc Santia, Produced & Edited by Linda Gaudino)

FDNY Firefighter David DeRubbio had a knack for making people smile, with his daughter recalling how he came up with games to keep her smiling as they spent hours looking for notoriously sparse parking on Brooklyn streets, and his wife’s memories of him still making her laugh

NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

NBC New York reporters went to the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and selected one name from the nearly 3,000 inscribed there, looking to remember that person by telling his or her story. Andrew Siff learned of a young woman who was a recent college graduate and was full of promise, and is still celebrated every day.

With the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, ‘Beyond the Name’ is a documentary series honoring those lost during the World Trade Center attacks. This episode features Elizabeth Holmes, a devoted single mother and singer at Harlem’s Canaan Baptist Church. She worked at Euro Brokers, located inside the Twin Towers, and was 42 years old when she died on 9/11....

Jaime Amoroso lost her husband who worked for Port Authority Police at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. A photograph showed him rescuing a woman that day, but her identity remained a mystery until now.

Jaime Amoroso lost her husband who worked for Port Authority Police at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. A photograph published in the Daily News showed him rescuing a woman that day. Twenty years later, Amoroso finally found the woman whose life her husband saved. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.