Get to the Fireboat
In 1999, a wonderfully unlikely group of New Yorkers did something that made very little practical sense.
They bought an old fireboat.
The John J. Harvey had served New York Harbor for more than six decades. Retired from the FDNY and facing the scrapyard, she seemed to belong to another age. But a diverse group of people couldn’t bear to see her disappear. They pooled their resources, bought the boat, and began bringing her back to life.
Not because New York needed another fireboat.
They simply thought she was worth saving.
Two years later, on the morning of September 11, 2001, those people…
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