When I was a child, I lived very near this park. My best friend, Timothy Welty, lived nearby as well. This park was a focal point for our adventures. If you sit in this spot, you can see the hill where we sledded in the winter. You can see the pond where we would hang out in the summer. We flipped and traded baseball cards and had snowball fights. We played basketball on the courts behind this spot.
In school we were inseparable, and our teachers would put us togehter on projects just to see what we would come up with. He was Luke Skywalker and I was R2-D2 in our 6th grade school play. We went to PS 32 together, and then IS 25, but then we ended up in different high schools and our lives drifted apart.
On September 11th, 2001, Tim Welty was one of the 343 NYFD firefighters who gave their lives to try to save others.
We miss you, Timmy.