New York Daily News

Dolan in hosp visit to injured

- BYADAM SCHRADER andLEONARD GREENE

VICTIMS INJURED in the bike path terror attack got a special visit Wednesday from Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who urged New Yorkers to focus more on the city’s recovery than the attack.

Dolan stopped by Bellevue Hospital, where bicyclists and bystanders were recovering after being mowed down by a truck driver a day before in a deadly terror strike in lower Manhattan.

“You never, ever want to lose your sense of sadness and somberness,” Dolan said on his way into the hospital. “There needs to be s shock, and there is. But you k know when I first got here n nine years ago, the first time I w went through a 9/11 ceremon ny, the priest where I went, St. P Peter’s, said, ‘You know w what’s more important than 9 9/11? 9/12, the day after 9 9/11.’ New Yorkers rallied. T They got out of bed and kept at i it. There always seems to be res silience. There always seems t to be a ‘let’s keep living in h hope’ that I admire.”

Dolan said the injured were u uplifted by his visit. He said he t told them, especially those f from out of town, that New Y Yorkers were behind them.

“All of New York is praying f for you,” he told them. “You’re n not alone. Not only are we w with you, the Lord is with y you.”

Dolan did not meet with susp pect Sayfullo Saipov, 29.

Sources said Saipov was cele ebrating the attack while recove ering from a gunshot wound he s suffered when he was appreh hended by cops.

“I have a lot of concerns a about his soul and I hope he d does,” Dolan said of the acc cused killer. “We can’t hide the a anger that all of us have. And y yet I have to listen to the man I f follow, who also happens to be t true man and true God and try t to forgive. I understand he has a wife and family and my heart g goes out for them, but boy, oh b boy, that can’t soften the sense o of horror and condemnati­on w we have for what he’s done.”

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