Bayonne Tunnel To Towers Run Scheduled For This Weekend In Remembrance Of September 11th

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THE BAYONNE ROLE IN THE TUNNEL TO TOWERS RUN

Editor’s note: We have covered Tunnel to Towers in the past, including their recent event honoring military members and their families, as well as their softball game a couple of years back.  We also reported on the acquisition of the Alba House property, which is presently being renovated.  Other September 11th events included the release of a documentary detailing the little known story of the cab drivers who offered their services free of charge, at their own expense, to rescuers and loved ones checking in to find out the status of the search. 

Each year, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation sponsors a five-kilometer run to honor the sacrifice of Firefighter Stephen Siller on September 11, 2001. On that day, following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Stephen Siller strapped on sixty pounds of equipment and rushed on foot through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. It was there that he gave his life while helping others.
He was one of 343 firefighters who perished after responding to the World Trade Center alongside 72 police officers.
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the organization formed in Stephen Siller’s name, began by serving widows and orphans from the September 11 attacks. Later, the foundation expanded its charitable aims to the survivors of military service members and first responders killed in the line of duty.
Tunnel to Towers also assists those who have been injured catastrophically.
The foundation covered the mortgage of Jersey City detective and former Bayonne resident Joseph Seals following his death in 2019.
Five years ago, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation sponsored a walk across America. On September 8, 2021, we were proud to welcome Frank Siller, Stephen’s brother, as he walked down the west side of Bayonne on his way to Staten Island in the run-up to September 11.
For over a decade, Bayonne Fire Captain Michael Pelliccio has led a team of runners that has raised over $100,000 for Tunnel to Towers. In recent years, a joint Public Safety team from the Bayonne Police Department and the Bayonne Fire Departments formed. This year marks the twenty – fifth anniversary of September 11th and the team will run in honor of retired Bayonne Fire Battalion Chief Dave Brown who died earlier this year.
The Bayonne Police and Fire Team will honor Dave and memories and service of all the lives lost in the run that traces the route of Firefighter Siller.
Dave Brown was a husband, a father, a hockey referee, and a 25-year veteran of the Bayonne Fire Department. Dave was among the many who – in the days following the September 11th terror attacks – responded to Ground Zero. He passed away on March 17, 2026—St. Patrick’s Day—a fitting nod to the proud Irish-American he was. Dave was diagnosed just months earlier with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an extremely rare and incurable neurodegenerative disease.
The event is scheduled for the morning of Sunday, September 27, 2026.
To support the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and America’s heroes, you can make a donation, become a team sponsor, or run with the team. To show your support for the Bayonne Police and Fire Team in the run on September 26 please go online to https://runsignup.com/bayonnepolicefire
Banner Image: Previous Tunnel to Towers run. Image Credit – City of Bayonne

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City of Bayonne

Bayonne is a community that retains many of the elements of a small town. One and two family homes, small apartment buildings, and small business predominate. There is a population of 62,000 people who take pride in their hometown and its history. Bayonne residents and their ancestors moved to the city from many parts of the world. During colonial times and the first century of the American Republic, the Dutch, British, and Africans were the first groups to arrive after the Native Americans. Subsequent waves of immigrants came from all over Europe, especially between the 1880s and the 1920s. In recent decades, sources of immigration have largely been represented from countries in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeastern Asia. Each group has left its mark on the cultural, religious and political life of the community.

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