The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine was rededicated on Sunday during a three-hour service filled with pageantry, dance and the booming chords of its restored organ.
Since a fire in 2001, one part or another of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine has been closed for restoration. It will be formally rededicated on Sunday.
The huge, newly restored pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was played for the first time since a fire tore through the church seven years ago.
The Staten Island fire was several blocks from the house fire in which a lieutenant in the Fire Department was killed, but there was no evidence that they were connected, police said.
The New York City Fire Department lieutenant killed in a house fire on Sunday morning had returned to work despite suffering a potentially career-ending injury in 2006.
Twelve firefighters were hospitalized after two fire trucks collided while responding to a reported gas leak in Greenwich Village on Saturday evening, the authorities said.
Most of the 600 trailer homes at Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Los Angeles went up in flames, leaving residents to mourn the loss of their homes but also, of their community.
In Detroit, signs with ominous eyes urging people to “Stop Halloween Arson” were, like the abandoned structures that they were posted on, an image of the past. Not anymore.