About me
I have worked in NYC since 1982 and lived here since ’91. I was here on 9/11, and in the days, months and years afterward.
I have been a 9/11 activist, working with other 9/11 family members on the often contentious memorial process to ensure that it faithfully expressed the full humanity and experience of those innocents whose names line the memorial’s massive voids.
I served on the advisory committee to the National September 11 Museum.
I have had articles on 9/11 and the memorial published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News. I have appeared on local and national news networks.
My Mission at Ground Zero is to faithfully convey the history of 9/11 and its full meaning, magnitude and impact, and by that best honor the heroism, sacrifice and loss.
The “Sphere Guy”
Dubbed the “Sphere Guy,” by a NY Times writer, this is some of the media coverage of my decade long fight to return the iconic Koenig Sphere, a testament to the attacks and a symbol of strength and resilience in response, to the WTC site:
The 1 WTC Tower Climb in Honor of Capt. Billy Burke, Jr.
Working with the well known and very prestigious 9/11 charity, Tunnel to Towers, I help co-found the 1 WTC Tower Climb in honor of Capt. Billy Burke. Every June a thousand attendees climb over 2,000 steps. Millions have been raised to build smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans, support families of first responders killed in the line of duty, and to house homeless veterans. Billy would be proud and humbled to know so many are following in his footsteps and doing so much good.
