Non Dimenticheremo: Rome's 411 Names and Bay Ridge's Quarter-Century Vigil
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Italy's Consulate in New York unveils all 411 names of Italian and Italian-American victims as Bay Ridge holds its own dockside vigil, while Milan's appeals court reserves judgment on ex-Ilva's fate and a lethal maltempo tests nine regions.
Italy Today
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Update: the Milan court didn’t rule on ex-Ilva’s hot area — it reserved judgment. After a two-hour hearing Wednesday, the Court of Appeal held off on Acciaierie d’Italia’s request to suspend the shutdown order for Taranto’s blast furnaces, with a verdict expected before September 16 — the date blast furnace Afo1 begins a cooldown that, once started, can’t be reversed. The 2,500 suspended indotto layoffs still hang on the same clock.
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This entire item is superseded as of today: the Court of Appeal ruled on September 11, confirming the hot-area shutdown and rejecting Acciaierie d’Italia’s suspension request, with the deadline set at October 28 — not “reserved judgment” pending a September 16 verdict (AGI, Corriere di Taranto, 2026-09-11) — suggested action: update to reflect the actual ruling before publishing.
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Update: the diesel discount that “wasn’t settled” got extended again — a third time. The government pushed the 17-cent excise cut through September 17, a one-week bridge rather than the targeted October aid previously floated. Meloni also announced special commissioners to boost domestic oil and gas output and promised broader fuel measures “next week.”
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“extended again — a third time” — sources confirm a sequence of extensions but none explicitly enumerate “third”; the count could not be corroborated — suggested action: verify against the full extension history or soften to “extended again.”
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A tornado and a flooded underpass killed two women within a day of each other. An elderly woman died in Sinalunga (Siena) when high winds shattered a window and severed her saphenous vein; a second woman drowned in her car in a flooded underpass in Latisana (Udine), part of a storm system that dropped 115mm of rain on Grosseto and over 63,000 lightning strikes on Tuscany in 12 hours. Civil Protection has Friuli-Venezia Giulia under orange alert today, with yellow alerts across eight more regions.
Brooklyn Dispatch
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Rome spent months building a list nobody wanted to need. Italy’s Consulate in New York unveiled a website and companion publication naming, and where possible showing the faces of, all 411 Italian and Italian-American victims of September 11, the result of researcher Giulio Picolli cross-referencing official registries against fragmentary records. The project includes a tricolor flag built from the victims’ names, modeled on the American “Flag of Honor.”
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“all 411 Italian and Italian-American victims” — this is the Consulate’s own count of its own project; every outlet reporting 411 traces back to the same announcement, making it single-sourced despite wide pickup — suggested action: add unverified flag.
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Bay Ridge doesn’t need a website — it built a beacon. At 7 p.m. tonight, the neighborhood gathers at American Veterans Memorial Pier off 69th Street for its annual vigil around The Beacon, the 25-foot monument installed in 2005 honoring the 283 Brooklyn residents killed that day — many of them, like the neighborhood itself, Italian-American.
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The linked URL slug is a generic, undated headline template Brooklyn Paper has reused across prior anniversary years — the underlying facts check out for 2026, but the specific link could not be confirmed to resolve to 2026 coverage rather than an archived page — suggested action: verify the link resolves to this year’s vigil coverage.
Arts & Culture
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Luca Guadagnino now sells you the sofa, not just the seduction. The Call Me by Your Name director and longtime collaborator Stefano Baisi have designed a 200-piece Zara Home collection — furniture, lighting, tableware, scented candles — pulling from Viennese Secessionism and Italian Radical Design. It drops September 26, timed to Milan Fashion Week’s closing weekend.
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Serie A’s fourth giornata opens tonight with a fixture nobody circled in August. Venezia hosts Fiorentina at 8:45 p.m., ahead of a Saturday slate topped by Lazio-Milan and a Sunday where Napoli — runners-up to a rampant Inter last season — hosts Bologna — early enough in the season that every table position still reads like a rumor.
Parola del Giorno
Parola: non dimenticheremo (phrase) — “we will not forget.” From dimenticare, “to forget,” itself from Latin de- (“away from”) + mens (“mind”): literally, to put out of mind. This week: the phrase that names the project cataloguing Italy’s 411 lost on September 11, 2001. Usage: “Venticinque anni dopo, l’Italia dice: non dimenticheremo.”
Takeaway
Takeaway
It took Rome twenty-five years to finish a list of 411 names — not because no one cared, but because getting a name right, a face confirmed, a spelling correct, is slow, unglamorous work. Bay Ridge didn’t wait: The Beacon has stood on 69th Street since 2005, a monument built while the count was still being taken. Neither is the whole memory. The full number needed both — a neighborhood willing to grieve its 283 in bronze before the record was closed, and a consulate patient enough to finish the record two decades later.