Apr 2, 2021 Terence Monahan eventually became the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD, The Chief of Department, the second-highest-ranking officer in the entire NYPD, second only to the Police Commissioner. On September 11th, Monahan was a precinct Captain in Washington Heights, right by the George Washington Bridge. His most vivid memory of that day was coming to the decision to close the GWB to traffic. The bridge is controlled by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Little did Captain Monahan know that some of the decision-makers were not responding to his calls because they had died during the attack. Their offices were in The World Trade Center.