Belle Harbor's Forgotten Tragedy

Updated: 15:04, Friday, 9 September 2011

It is often forgotten that just two months after the 9/11 attacks one suburb of New York was visited again by devastating tragedy.

It is often forgotten that just two months after the 9/11 attacks one suburb of New York was visited again by devastating tragedy.

Residents of the Irish-American suburb of Belle Harbor in Queens had just buried the last of 12 residents killed in the 9/11 attacks, when a plane carrying nearly 300 passengers crashed there, just after takeoff from JFK Airport on 12 November.

All on board were killed.

The suburb is home to many fire-fighters, who had been at Ground Zero just after the attack. They now found themselves battling with death and disaster on their own doorsteps.

Reporter Vincent Murphy went to Belle Harbor ten years on to see how the community is coping.

Listen here.