...smoke as American Airlines Flight 587 came down two blocks away. "Just on the heels of one horror, another," said Fern Liberman, who also lives nearby. The Rockaway Beach neighborhood is on a strip of land at the southern end of Queens, just...

...about 20 bodies that were being laid out on the street. "This community was hit so hard by the Trade Center," said Fern Liberman, who lives a few blocks away. "A lot of firefighters, policemen and we had a lot of people at Cantor Fitzgerald...