THE SEPTEMBER 11th DELIVERY BIKE MEMORIAL
Canyon River ‘FS Elite’ 18 Speed
Looking for any telling signs or bike riding setup details that would indicate this belonged
to a NYC bike messenger. Ping me @RaischStudios with thoughts. Thanks for reviewing.
The Bike Messenger Memorial was a organic memorial that was created by the public in the weeks
and months after the attacks. Located on Broadway and Cedar, the bike was locked up and abandoned by
it's owner, believed to have been a missing World Trade Center Bike Messenger. To my knowledge, there are
roughly three known versions of the story, The one told me on the streets of New York, the hand written note
on the Memorial, and the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum display.
VERSION ONE | ORIGINAL NOTE ON STREET:
“In Memory of the delivery boys who died.
En memoria de los delivery boys que murieron. Sept 11 2001.”
VERSION TWO | FROM WORD ON THE STREET:
“As told to me it belonged to a delivery messenger, on a breakfast sandwiches order and never made it back from the Towers. There was an suggestion that (he) was a immigrant worker and not noted among the official victims of the attacks.”
VERSION THREE | BICYCLE MESSENGERS MEMORIAL, 9/11 MUSEUM:
“Locked to a street sign on Broadway near Cedar Street, a block from the World Trade Center, this abandoned bicycle soon became an impromptu shrine to the messengers and delivery persons presumed to have been killed at the the World Trade Center. Flowers, coins, notes, and religious items were left at the memorial in the months that followed.”
