by Mary E. Cronin | Sep 11, 2022 | FDNY
Back when he was a new firefighter in 1962, my father helped pull a fellow firefighter to safety as a porch roof collapsed in a Bronx house fire. The moment was captured by a New York Daily News photographer, and it was splashed on the front page the next day. We...
by Mary E. Cronin | Aug 30, 2022 | FDNY, Uncategorized
I know there’s an image of New Yorkers being somewhat hard-boiled when visitors get googly-eyed over the charms and flash of NYC, but on a recent visit, I saw the opposite, thanks to the FDNY. We were walking past a firehouse not far from Times Square, and the bay was...
by Mary E. Cronin | Jul 26, 2021 | FDNY, Poetry
As writers, we get used to leaning into headwinds, persevering through all of the rejections and maybes and the waiting. Then when something wonderful happens, it’s a shock to the system! Yesterday, my poem about growing up in the Bronx appeared in the New York Times....