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Fireman’s Lane
Firefighter Robert Foti's children are presented with a replica of their father's street sign
by the people whose efforts made it possible: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, City
Council Member Alan Gerson, and the United Jewish Council's David Weinberger (center)
and Executive Director Joel Kaplan (right).
irefighter Robert Foti, who perished at the WTC site on September 11, 2001, grew up in
East River Housing, right off the FDR Drive. A sweet and cheerful man, he left behind
many friends and admirers, who gathered last month with his family members on Cherry
Street, to witness the official conaming of the stretch between the FDR and Jackson
Street as Robert Joseph Foti Way. Everyone who had known him, particularly the men
from Ladder 7, Engine 16, seemed eager to share stories about his remarkable life.
As a young man Foti saved a drowning boy from a lake in New Jersey, a group of people
nearly overcome by an ocean rip-tide, and a drowning man from the East River. He also
saved children from a burning bus on Grand Street.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver unveiled the new street sign before an honor guard of
Robert Foti’s fellow Firefighters.
Yori Yanover
Firefighter Robert Foti's children are presented with a replica of their father's street sign
by the people whose efforts made it possible: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, City
Council Member Alan Gerson, and the United Jewish Council's David Weinberger (center)
and Executive Director Joel Kaplan (right).
irefighter Robert Foti, who perished at the WTC site on September 11, 2001, grew up in
East River Housing, right off the FDR Drive. A sweet and cheerful man, he left behind
many friends and admirers, who gathered last month with his family members on Cherry
Street, to witness the official conaming of the stretch between the FDR and Jackson
Street as Robert Joseph Foti Way. Everyone who had known him, particularly the men
from Ladder 7, Engine 16, seemed eager to share stories about his remarkable life.
As a young man Foti saved a drowning boy from a lake in New Jersey, a group of people
nearly overcome by an ocean rip-tide, and a drowning man from the East River. He also
saved children from a burning bus on Grand Street.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver unveiled the new street sign before an honor guard of
Robert Foti’s fellow Firefighters.
Yori Yanover