On 14th Street, Engine 5 remembers those lost on 9/11

Photo by Greg Masters 

Local firehouses across the city commemorated the 25th anniversary of 9/11 today.

Here's a scene from this morning outside Engine Company 5 on 14th Street, between First Avenue and Second Avenue, during a moment of silence.

On Sept. 11, 2001, the Company lost Manny DelValle Jr., a 7-year FDNY veteran who grew up in the Bronx. He was 32.

Here's more about him from his obituary in The New York Times:

At home in the Bronx, Mr. DelValle took advanced classes in salsa dancing. He loved Latin music but listened to everything. "Rap," said his brother Pete Moyer. "And R&B," added his sister Grace Nolly. "Old school," said his father, Manuel Del Valle, to be specific.

Mr. DelValle, who graduated from the University of Maryland, was also an accomplished moguls skier and roller skater, a traveler, a lover of war movies and, his family says, a lady's man. He also got Engine Company No. 5, where he was assigned, to participate in the Puerto Rican Day Parade. He was the one in the family who always sent a card and gift to siblings, half-siblings and cousins.

According to reports, 26 firefighters from the neighborhood's four firehouses lost their lives on 9/11.