State Senator Martin Golden held his annual Memorial Rally on the Veterans’ Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge on Sept. 11, in honor of those who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Above, Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello, pastor of St. Bernard’s, Mill Basin, speaks. Below, Father Robert Adamo, pastor of St. Ephrem’s, Dyker Heights, gives the opening invocation. In 2001, the pier, which is in direct line of sight of the Trade Center, became a site of nightly gatherings and local memorials. (Photos: Ed Wilkinson)