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The Firefighters Who Climbed the Towers and the 343 Names the FDNY Still Reads The New York firefighters who climbed the stairs on September 11, the failures the Commission found and the later cost to responders, told with the 343 names. September 11, 2001 Hour by Hour From the First Plane to the Last Rescue A timed account of September 11, 2001, drawn from the 9/11 Commission Report, from the hijackings to the collapses and the last survivor pulled from the rubble. New York's Big Soda Ban and the Nanny State That Lost in Court New York City's 16-ounce soda cap fell because an appointed board wrote a law that belonged to elected legislators, a separation-of-powers lesson. The Harlem Hellfighters Spent 191 Days Under Fire and Came Home Heroes Handed to the French because the army would not use it, a Black New York regiment fought 191 days in 1918 and marched up Fifth Avenue to a hero's welcome. Ellis Island Asked Twelve Million Newcomers to Become Americans and They Did Ellis Island processed about twelve million people from 1892 to 1954, and its line, sponsors, night schools and oath all expected newcomers to become Americans. Hamilton at Poughkeepsie, How New York Ratified by Three Votes New York's convention opened with opponents holding a large majority and ratified 30 to 27 on July 26, 1788. How argument and events turned it. The Sullivan Act of 1911 and the century New York spent rationing carry permits New York's Sullivan Act gave officials discretion over who could carry a handgun. A century later Bruen ended it, and Albany answered with a new set of hurdles. Broken Windows Turns Forty-Plus, and What Wilson and Kelling Actually Wrote The 1982 essay behind broken windows policing has been misdescribed ever since. Here is what it said, what New York did with it, and what the record supports. Before Ellis Island, the States Ran Immigration and the Court Stopped Them For most of the 1800s port states screened and taxed arriving passengers until the Supreme Court held in 1876 that immigration belonged to Congress.