Engine 22 · Ladder 13 · Battalion 10
THE
YORKVILLE 9
September 11, 2001 — September 11, 2026
159 East 85th Street · Yorkville · New York City
Remember their names↓They were more than the day we lost them.
They were husbands and fathers, sons and brothers, athletes and musicians, builders and runners, friends and teammates. They were firefighters.
On September 11, 2001, four members of Engine Company 22 and five members of Ladder Company 13 were killed after responding from the firehouse at 159 East 85th Street. They came to be known as the Yorkville 9.
Know their faces.
Remember their lives.
Open any portrait to enter that firefighter’s individual memorial.
The firehouse on 85th Street.
Engine 22. Ladder 13. Battalion 10. A working firehouse, a neighborhood institution, and the place from which nine men answered the call on September 11.
The doors still open. Firefighters still respond. But September 11 is part of the building now—and the names of the Yorkville 9 remain part of the house.
Two riding boards from the house still carried the chalked names of the firefighters who signed out that morning. The Metropolitan Museum of Art conserved and framed the boards in 2002 before returning them permanently to Engine 22.
See the riding-board historical record →Enter the firehouse and meet the nine →
Two companies.
Two stairways.
One mission.
The surviving company records place Engine 22 and Ladder 13 on different evacuation routes inside the North Tower.
South Tower collapses. Evacuation order.
North Tower collapses.
Joseph Graziano Jr.
His survival is part of the Yorkville 9 story.
Ladder 13’s company report records Graziano descending the North Tower through Stairway B while assisting a civilian. He exited only seconds before the building collapsed.
He was helping someone else get out.Read Joe’s story
Their names live beyond the firehouse.
Memorial stones, street co-namings, scholarships, foundations, races and community institutions have carried their names forward for a quarter century.
We remember how they lived.
September 11, 2001 — September 11, 2026