Dec 14, 2008 8:13 am US/Eastern
Corner Named For Firefighter Killed In Deutsche
BROOKLYN (AP) ―
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The Former Deutsche Bank Building at Ground Zero. The Fire Department of New York has issued a report that details a litany of problems at a fire here one year ago that killed two firefighters.
Gregg Geller
A Brooklyn streetcorner now bears the name of a firefighter killed in a 2007 blaze in a toxic skyscraper near Ground Zero.
The southwest corner of 77th Street and 13th Avenue became Firefighter Joey Graffagnino Place on Saturday. He lived nearby.
Graffagnino and fellow firefighter Robert Beddia died at the former Deutsche Bank building on Aug. 18, 2007.
They confronted a maze of hazards at the building, which was being cleaned of toxic debris and dismantled. Prosecutors are investigating various failures at the government-run project.
Graffagnino's widow, Linda, says she was touched by Saturday's ceremony. She says the couple's 2-year-old son remains too young to understand what happened to his father, but their 5-year-old daughter speaks of him often.
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