Mount Pleasant Magazine Documenting Covid-19

113 www.CoronavirusMag.com | www.ReadMPM.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com feature W e’ve all heard stories about wildly unfortunate individuals who have been struck by lightning. Then there are those rarest of rare people who have been struck twice. Meet Ed Bimonte, musician, entrepreneur and dedicated New Yorker. No, he wasn’t one of those individuals struck by lightning twice. But he did survive the aftermath of our nation’s most devastating terror attack and he is right now up to his masks and surgical gloves in trying to survive yet another calamity that has befallen his beloved city. On a bright, sunny early fall morning in 2001, Bimonte gazed out the window of his apartment at 71 Broadway in lower Manhattan. Looking just past the famed Trinity Church he was shocked to see an airliner BY BILL FARLEY ANewYorker’sTake Two Devastations