25 Years After 9/11, New Jerseyans’ Stories of Grief, Courage and Hope Endure

Newspaper reporter Mike Kelly was working at the Bergen Record when the attacks of September 11 took place. He managed to board a tugboat crossing the Hudson from Jersey City a few hours after the towers fell. Kelly, who had left his laptop and phone charger in the newsroom, wouldn’t return home for three days, sleeping nights at a photographer friend’s apartment in the city and…