9/11 REMEMBERED: Remembering Robert Tipaldi
Robert Frank Tipaldi was only 25 on that September day, 10 yearsago. He was working as an assistant trader for Cantor Fitzgerald,as he had for the past three and a half years. His office waslocated on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center’s northtower.
Tipaldi worked with his two high-school buddies, Jude Safi andRichard Caggiano – both neighborhood guys. He had landed them jobsthere, and the three remained inseparable – until that tragicday.
As his mother Stella Lombardo recalls, that morning started likeany other for the Xaverian High School and St. John’s Universitygraduate.