With daughter Laura in London
Daughter Laura's college graduation with son Thomas and wife Helen May 2001
With daughter Laura
Fall 2012, Taken in Yorktown Heights, NY
July 2013, Taken in Troy, Michigan
The Rising Westchester County 9/11 Memorial
Boston Public Garden 9/11 Memorial
Queen Elizabeth II September 11 Memorial Garden
Conseleya 9/11 Memorial
Dewitt 9/11 Memorial
Montclair State University 9/11 Memorial
East Newark 9/11 Memorial
Fair Haven 9/11 Memorial
Freehold Township 9/11 Living Memorial Tree Grove
Alan W. Friedlander was a senior vice president at insurance giant Aon Corp. on the 93rd floor of the south tower. Aon had more than 1,100 employees at the World Trade Center. Friedlander was among 200 killed.
He and his wife, Helen, who continues to live in Yorktown, last spoke the night before the attacks because he left for work early on Sept. 11.
Friedlander graduated from Stuyvesant High School. He received an engineering degree from City College of New York and his Master of Business Administration degree from New York University.
He loved planning vacations, photographing the figure-skating competitions his wife liked to attend, and bicycling. He once bought her a bicycle. The two met at a Gristede's market in Manhattan, where he stocked shelves and she worked at checkout.
New York Times Portraits of Grief
Alan W. Friedlander was a family man with a handful of passions: bicycling, planning vacations and photography. He bought his wife, Helen, a bicycle, and the second weekend in September they headed from their home in Yorktown Heights, up the Westchester County Trail to Baldwin Place. When their daughter, Laura, was living abroad, they visited her, and he enjoyed studying books and maps whenever the family traveled.
The couple met at the Gristede's on Second Avenue at 68th Street, where he stocked shelves and she worked the checkout. They were married for 28 years, with a son, Steven, 26, and Laura, 22. Mr. Friedlander, 52, a senior vice president at Aon Corporation , had recently enjoyed taking pictures of the figure skating competitions his wife liked to attend. "He really did everything well, and he was a patient guy," she said, "so he took a gazillion shots." His four best pictures are displayed in a spare bedroom.
Mrs. Friedlander wanted to add one last thing: "My favorite time of day was 10 til 7 at night, because that's when he came home."
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