Joseph Vuoso, dedicated civil servant, dies
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Joseph Vuoso, 68, was a court officer who worked for five days straight at Foley Sq. during and after 9/11. (Sept. 10, 2012)
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Notable Long Islanders who died in 2011
Joseph Vuoso, 68, of Mount Sinai, a court security officer who stayed at his post for days in Foley Square following the Sept. 11 attacks, died last Wednesday of cancer.
In an interview two and a half months before his death, Vuoso described watching the first plane go into the Twin Towers blocks away from the federal courthouse in Foley Square in Manhattan.
After escorting judges out...
