MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — Ernesto Butcher, a veteran of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was praised for his calm leadership in the days and weeks after the Sept. 11 terror attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, has died at age 69.
Butcher, who worked for the Port Authority for 41 years, suffered a heart attack while walking near his Maplewood home and died Thursday, the agency said.
Butcher retired in 2012 as chief operating officer of the Port Authority, which runs the states' bridges, tunnels, airports and other transit hubs and owns the lower Manhattan World Trade Center site.
He'd held the title since 2000. Before that he had held numerous positions including manager of the George Washington Bridge and the Port Authority Bus Terminal and director of tunnels, bridges and terminals. He began as a management trainee in 1971.
The Port Authority's director of port commerce, Rick Larrabee, worked under Butcher beginning in 2000 and recalled how they made it down to the street from the agency's offices high up in the World Trade Center's North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
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