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It is the sound of the city laughing or crying, celebrating or mourning. For 45 years, the bagpipes and drums of the fire department's Emerald Society Band provided a New York soundtrack in good times and bad: along Fifth Avenue on St. Patrick's Day, alongside caskets at hundreds of Sept. 11 funerals. Read more.

New York - Tim Sherry dozed off not long after midnight early Wednesday, and it was his 6-year-old son, Danny, who had to wake him up and tell him it was time to go.

Like a lot of ironworkers, Sherry is a big and powerful man. He lives in the very northern portion of Manhattan, in a working-class neighborhood called Inwood, not far from where the Harlem River hooks around Manhattan, separating it from the Bronx. Sherry took the big American flag down from the front of his house, grabbed his tool belt and hard hat and said goodbye to Danny. Read more.