One of Gotham’s most high-spirited celebrations of public service, this year’s event was presided over, start to finish, by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his Fire Commissioner, Lillian Bonsignore.
Thousands of firefighters, their colleagues and their family members packed the grounds outside City Hall on June 3 for the annual FDNY Medal Day ceremony. The event honors dozens of department personnel whose actions were deemed exceptionally meritorious in the past year.
Among the 50 medals awarded...