Ceren Zorlu

09/14/2026

I haven’t really gone anywhere, especially away from the area in which I live in in Medford, New York. By chance if anyone finds a Hunter college knapsack , which is purple and it says Hunter college, it was free and given to me by the college with my graduate school acceptance, meaning that it was a gift but the inside material is basically personal material and my entire year of college books they are textbooks so what’s inside is what matters to me sounds so stupid and cliché, but I love that free knapsack and I really need those books back because I really don’t want have to get new ones. Basically has all of my textbooks for prior semesters in this semester. It’s all missing. I cant find it !

09/14/2026

A little over a month left for NYC marathon! Is anyone running this year ?!? I am not complaining. I am happy if can walk there but this year I would have to take the lirr so no walking distance and or if I can watch here out in Medford NY the glorious 2026 manhattan marathon! Hope all is awesome !

09/14/2026

This is pretty awesome and this year is free for everyone . If I was available I would be there ! Hopefully next year ! All the best to everyone!

09/14/2026

If you are good for you, I am not ! And I would like to say making food or studying massage does no mean that are a s*x worker or a manipulative person some people make food because their personality, or they are a kinetic learner, that’s their actual art and they enjoy their own personal hobby and their own personal profession and talent. You don’t have to be a professional to personally feel like a culinary artist . Available to everyone professionally and personally! Online and in person!

09/14/2026

Join us for CIDNY’s Third Annual Gala, Accessibility Transforms Lives, on Monday, October 5, 2026, at 6 p.m. to celebrate the powerful impact of advocacy on New York City’s disability community—and support the critical work still ahead.

Featuring:

*Keynote by Jenna Bainbridge (she/her), actor, singer, and disability rights advocate, currently appearing on Broadway as Nessarose in Wicked.

*Award presentations honoring outstanding disability justice advocates.

*The beautiful and fully accessible Perelman Arts Center at the World Trade Center.

Since 1978, CIDNY has fought for improved accessibility for all New Yorkers. In 2025 alone, we directly helped 75,000 New Yorkers with disabilities to overcome barriers and access better physical health, mental health, housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation. Our annual gala is a celebration of all that we have accomplished, and a fundraiser to support the work yet to come.

What: CIDNY's 2026 Gala
When: Monday, October 05, 2026, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Where: Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), 251 Fulton Street New York, NY 10007

Get your tickets now at: https://www.cidny.org/cidny2026gala/

09/14/2026

A Mariah Carey CD changed Sara Botkin's life in a way no one could have imagined.
On September 11, 2001, 24-year-old Sara was supposed to start work at 9 a.m. on the 105th floor of the South Tower.
But before heading upstairs, she made one small stop.
Mariah Carey's Glitter had been released that day, and Sara wanted the new CD. 🎵
She bought it at the Sam Goody store beneath the World Trade Center, then walked toward the elevators.
She was still standing in line, holding the CD, when the building suddenly shook.
The North Tower had been struck.
Sara didn't immediately understand what had happened.
Security guards were telling people that their building was secure and encouraging them to remain inside.
Then Sara noticed two men in suits ignoring the instructions and heading for the exit.
She decided to follow them.
Outside, she looked up and saw black smoke pouring from a huge opening in the North Tower.
Her only thought became getting away.
Sara took the subway toward Queens.
Before she could fully understand what was unfolding, the second plane struck the South Tower, the same building where she would normally have been working 105 floors above the ground.
Her boyfriend Ovi feared she hadn't made it out.
He finally learned from Sara's mother that she was alive.
Two weekends later, when he saw Sara again, he proposed. 💍
They married on December 8, 2001.
And there was one more unexpected chapter to the story.
Mariah Carey eventually heard what had happened.
A few days after the attacks, she sent Sara a signed copy of the CD and a photograph.
Sara still has it.
Today, she is a financial advisor, a wife and the mother of three children.
She once reflected on something difficult to comprehend:
None of her children's lives would exist if she hadn't made it out that morning.
A completely ordinary decision to stop and buy an album delayed her by only a few minutes.
But those few minutes changed everything that came afterward.
Have you ever wondered how many of the biggest turning points in our lives begin with decisions that seem completely insignificant at the time?

09/11/2026

09/11/2026

"where were you?"

Where were you?

I lived 20 miles north of Manhattan. I was in sixth grade technology class. My school went into "code red." I was told to hide under my desk. I could hear people crying.

My mom picked me up from school. It smelled like smoke outside. It smelled that way for weeks.

Never forget ❤️🇺🇸 25 years