The top section fell onto the cars on the bottom section, resulting in42 deaths. The bottom section held up, so it didn't completely collapse into the water. Many residents living nearby in West Oakland started to do whatever they could to helprescuethose trapped on the bridge. Although the...
Jamaica Bay connects with the ocean to the southwest by way of Rockaway Inlet, which is bridged. Near the entrance channel isConey Island. On theBrooklynshore isFloyd BennettField, a former U.S. naval air station that is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area; on the northeastern...
Gatti, Joseph
About 30 friends had gathered outside the shop in the Pacific Garden Mall, chanting her name, “Robin, Robin,” and singing folk songs. Ortiz, a popular employee of the shop, was last heard yelling at patrons to evacuate during the main quake, which caused the roof to collapse. Her body...