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The Mets icon, who died after a lengthy illness on March 29, received a hero’s goodbye Wednesday afternoon in a memorial Mass at stately St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown.

Thursday marks the 10th Anniversary Memorial Mass for Deceased Construction Workers, better known as the Annual Hardhat Mass. At this mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, over which I will preside, all those killed on a construction site in New York City are remembered and revered — whether they be union or nonunion workers.

In commemoration of the life and legacy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the bells of St. Patrick’s Cathedral will toll 39 times this evening at 7:05 PM., marking the 50th anniversary of his assassination.