Sterling Place Plane Crash

i love history.interesting post Karen…link to more pictures: http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ua826/photo.shtml

i love history.interesting post Karen…link to more pictures: http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ua826/photo.shtml

one more time…it looks like this guy wrote a book about it: http://www.midair-collision-over-newyork.com

one more time…it looks like this guy wrote a book about it: http://www.midair-collision-over-newyork.com

Thanks, Nuti! Some of those photos are incredible.

Thanks, Nuti! Some of those photos are incredible.

I was 6 at the Time of the Crash. I was however a witness to most of what was going on. My House had a view that encompassed most of the area where the Plane came down on Staten Island. I remember it vividly.

I was 6 at the Time of the Crash. I was however a witness to most of what was going on. My House had a view that encompassed most of the area where the Plane came down on Staten Island. I remember it vividly.

DJ Donnelly Productions Ltd in association with Affiliated Studios are in pre productions of this plane crash for a major motion picture due to go into productions in early 2009. The films screenwriter, Sandra Wallace after extensive reseraching, government reports, news reels, has created a motion picture screenplay that shall bring all 134 victims back to life in MAYDAY NEW YORK(c). Film Memorials are planned by DJ Donnelly Productions Ltd for all 134 victims and their families to visit, te memorials are now in development.

MAYDAY NEW YORK (c)

From DJ Donnelly Productions Ltd

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Barbara Fellen
DJ DONNELLY PRODUCTIONS LTD
http://www.djdonnellyproductions.com
djdonnellyprod@peoplepc.com

I would like to say that DJ Donnelly Productions are a fake,,,,i believe that this guy who wrote this book years back Mr. Garcia is the one who should come out with this movie he was a witness to this tragical accident.

I agree with Poppy416
Where is Mr. Garcia, whey hasn’t DJ involved him in the picture?
I smell a crook

Checked out http://www.midair-collision-over-newyork.com.

AWESOME. great writing

Checked out http://www.midair-collision-over-newyork.com.

AWESOME. great writing

The book “Sterling Place” bought chills down my spine.
I hope the movie “Mayday New York” is as good as the book. I doubt it.

The book “Sterling Place” bought chills down my spine.
I hope the movie “Mayday New York” is as good as the book. I doubt it.

do you know if this school was Sterling Industrial School. back in the late 1800′s a early 1900′s

do you know if this school was Sterling Industrial School. back in the late 1800′s a early 1900′s

I found out tonight that Wallace E. Lewis (the 90 year old care-taker of the Pillar of Fire Church) was my great great uncle. He was one of the five that were killed on the ground. (That’s my grandfather’s mother’s brother; or, my paternal grandfather’s maternal uncle)

I find this bit of national and family history very interesting. Thanks for blogging it!

I must find out more.

I found out tonight that Wallace E. Lewis (the 90 year old care-taker of the Pillar of Fire Church) was my great great uncle. He was one of the five that were killed on the ground. (That’s my grandfather’s mother’s brother; or, my paternal grandfather’s maternal uncle)

I find this bit of national and family history very interesting. Thanks for blogging it!

I must find out more.

I remember that day, I was working in Manhattan and it came over on a radio bulletin, I also thought about it today! Dec. 16TH 2008, because a co-worker was on the phone and mentioned Sterling place, to a friend. As i looked out the window it was snowing and gloomy just like it was that day. Isn’t that a wild coincedence?

I remember that day, I was working in Manhattan and it came over on a radio bulletin, I also thought about it today! Dec. 16TH 2008, because a co-worker was on the phone and mentioned Sterling place, to a friend. As i looked out the window it was snowing and gloomy just like it was that day. Isn’t that a wild coincedence?

Charles J Cooper, who was shoveling snow,worked for the Sanitation Dept. When he was killed he left 3 small children, one of them , John, was my best friend. A memorial wouldn’t be too much too ask for.

Charles J Cooper, who was shoveling snow,worked for the Sanitation Dept. When he was killed he left 3 small children, one of them , John, was my best friend. A memorial wouldn’t be too much too ask for.

Uncle wally is what the caretaker went by. He was my great uncle. I thought I would just add this comment he was a very nice man and his Headstone reads faithful unto death. He is buried in Belleview Cemetery Westminster,Co near his sister who also was a missionary for the Pillar of Fire Church and my namesake.

Uncle wally is what the caretaker went by. He was my great uncle. I thought I would just add this comment he was a very nice man and his Headstone reads faithful unto death. He is buried in Belleview Cemetery Westminster,Co near his sister who also was a missionary for the Pillar of Fire Church and my namesake.

I am glad I came across your blog.

I am glad I came across your blog.

I was born and raised in Park Slope (9th Street betwen 7th and 8th Avenues) and was a seniior in High School when this crash took place…John Jay High School, origanally Manual Training High School. It was a cold winter’s day. Many students from the school including myself ran down 7th Avenue to witness the scene. Many students tried to help but were turned away….

I was born and raised in Park Slope (9th Street betwen 7th and 8th Avenues) and was a seniior in High School when this crash took place…John Jay High School, origanally Manual Training High School. It was a cold winter’s day. Many students from the school including myself ran down 7th Avenue to witness the scene. Many students tried to help but were turned away….

I was born in park slope too. I was 9 yrs old at the time. I was home that day not sure why. But I remember the loud plane engines of the plane that seemed to fly over my house. I lived on degraw street between 4th & 5th ave closer to 5th ave.
I saw that little boy stephen blatz on ground. I never forgot that day I’m 58 yrs old now and can remember if it was yesterday. I still have family on degraw street and walk to the plane site when ever i’m there. I can’t get they day out of my mind.

Anthony

I was born in park slope too. I was 9 yrs old at the time. I was home that day not sure why. But I remember the loud plane engines of the plane that seemed to fly over my house. I lived on degraw street between 4th & 5th ave closer to 5th ave.
I saw that little boy stephen blatz on ground. I never forgot that day I’m 58 yrs old now and can remember if it was yesterday. I still have family on degraw street and walk to the plane site when ever i’m there. I can’t get they day out of my mind.

Anthony

i was born thats block i live in 118 sterling pl i heard alot of storys about this

i was born thats block i live in 118 sterling pl i heard alot of storys about this

I was in 4th grade at St. Francis Xavier Elementary School on President St. It was a truly dismal winter day, when out of the sky one could hear the crescendo of the engines' roar until they became deafening. My teacher, Mrs. Dunne, fainted as the fireball passed our window. One didn't even have time to say, “What is that?” before the plane crashed into the street. Only about 9 at the time, I thought the tall flames were coming from the roof tops of the nearby buildings. Just horrifying. Not even 9/11 was as terrifying for me, as this was a plane falling from the sky right into the midst of our city streets.

B. J. Price My name is Milt Sharpe. A year ago I thought Wallace Lewis was my great Uncle but I just foundout He was My Great Grand Father. You and I must be related. Look forward to hearing from you! Milt

i would like to know the author of this book

Hi Michael, I’m putting together a report on this, since the 50 year anniversary is upcoming. Can you email me through my site, sharonweston.com? Thanks!

Hi Anthony, I’m putting together a report on this, since the 50 year anniversary is upcoming. Can you email me through my site, sharonweston.com? Thanks!

Hi Sharon. My Name is James McDermott. Although I now live in south Jersey, I was just reading in todays sunday Daily News about the 50th anniversary of that plane crash. I never needed to read it was the anniversary. There are three days in my life, I’ll always remember where I was when disaster struck. The day President Kennedy was shot. The day the twin towers were struck and the park slope plane crash.
For Kennedys news I was a sophmore in Erasmus Hall, a math class. Mrs.Hyman was my teacher. The announcement came over the P.A.
As for the park slope disaster I was a little closer. I was a sixth grader in St.Augustine’s
a half a block down at sterling place and sixth. Yes it was a cold day and the snow from the previous day, stayed frozen on the ground. I sat in the third floor (top floor)class room. second row from the large long windows, fifth seat back. Our Nun was sister Francis Winifred (sister winnie we called her). As she was teaching a Sound of a jet air craft was getting closer and closer, Till it was almost over us I felt like ducking under my desk. Just as it thunderd over us the mighty roar turned into a whistling sound( the pilot must have shut down his engine). The school shook and the crashing sound was thunderous, Sister Winnie started us saying prayers instantly.
We were dismissed earlier than ususal through the high school entrance on park place. My mother who was in our apartment on Bergen Street about five blocks from the school, said she thought the fire escape in the rear of the building fell into the yard. Then she heard on the radio a plane crashed on sterling place and sixth ave, right where the school sat. She raced to the school and was thankful that the radio was wrong. That evening myself and a couple of friends tryed to get as close to the crash scene as possible only to see white sticks placed upright where body parts were found.
Yes, I remember it.
P.S
I had two girls in my class, the Marshall sisters,Maureen and Kathleen. They were absent that day. They lived in the top floor of the building where the planes wing went through. Their Picture was in the news paper the next day, they were safe and in their P.J’s. Another of my class mates was also a friend of mine Joseph Esposito(Joey). He is now the chief of police in New York City. I think he was sitting in the first or second row.
I’ll save the twin tower story for another time, as my hands are still shaking from writing about this.

Hi Sharon,

I hope I’m not too late !  I’m now 60 yrs old and still have family just 4 blocks from the plane crash !  I still go to the site some people think I’m crazy but it makes me feel good and say a prayer everytime I go !   my e-mail is bklyn706@yahoo.com  this was my old address when I lived In Brooklyn. I now live in New Jersey since 1989 

Hi Linda,

I also went to John Jay High School too and remember this day all to well !  The plane flew over my house !  It sounded like pot & pans and large dishes breaking and crashing !  It was very scary it was a cold day with snow and rain mixed with foggy conditions

Anthony