Tribeca Terror Victims Remembered At Ceremony On Greenway

TRIBECA, NY — Mayor Bill de Blasio and Argentine President Mauricio Macri on Monday honored the eight people killed in last week's terror attack on the Hudson River Greenway. Before laying flowers next to the bike path where chaos ensued six days ago, the leaders said the massacre wouldn't prevent international unity and friendship.

"This can only unite us more," Macri told a crowd of cops and other officials in Spanish. "This has to make us believe even more in peace."

Tuesday will mark a week since Sayfullo Saipov drove a pickup truck down the usually tranquil Manhattan path, killing eight and wounding 12 in an ISIS-inspired attack.

Among those killed were five Argentinians — Hernán Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damián Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi — who were in New York celebrating the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation with three other classmates.

The other victims included Ann-Laure Decadt of Belgium, Nicholas Cleves of Manhattan and Darren Drake of New Milford, N.J.

"We will forever remember them as New Yorkers," de Blasio said Monday. He described the strike as "a loss we have in common" with Argentina and "an attack on the values we share."

De Blasio and Macri joined one of the survivors of the attack, Guillermo Banchini, in a moment of silence on the greenway near Desbrosses Street. Banchini and two others were biking last week with the five Argentine men who were killed.

"How could someone think of, plan and do something like this? We cannot get our heads around it," Banchini said at the Argentine consulate earlier Monday, according to Reuters. "Let there be justice. Let this not be repeated, not here nor anywhere in the world."

Even after the attack, New York will remain a city that welcomes people from across the world, de Blasio said. He cited Sunday's New York City Marathon, which drew more than 2 million spectators and thousands of runners representing 125 nations.

"Even in the depths of our grief we will not stop being who we are and we will not change our values," de Blasio said.

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(Lead image: Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray lay flowers along the Hudson River Greenway for the eight people killed in the Oct. 31 terrorist attack there. Photo by Edwin J. Torres/NYC Mayor's Office)