PAUL BARBARO: Trailing 2 Little
Boys
Even
as a boy growing up on Staten Island, Paul Barbaro was
always taking care of other people. He would shovel the
snow off a neighbor's driveway free of charge and would
often stay up late into the night to comfort an ailing
grandmother, said his father, Nicholas.
Mr. Barbaro, 35, was a soft-spoken man and a
perfectionist, whether he was painting his parents'
kitchen or labeling moving cartons. An hour-and-a-half
drive with Mr. Barbaro could take three hours. "He would
have to pull over at every scenic lookout," said Daniel
Macri, a friend since high school. "He had to be a pain
in the neck a little bit."
Mr. Barbaro, a software engineer, designed trading
platforms for some of the biggest companies on Wall
Street. In December, he joined eSpeed, a division of
Cantor Fitzgerald, and in August, he and his wife, Kim,
moved from Staten Island to Holmdel, N.J. When he worked
around the house, his sons, Paul William, 5, and Joseph
Nicholas, 2 1/2, would trail after him wearing toy
tool belts. "Anything he did, they were right behind
him," said Mr. Barbaro's brother, Nicholas Jr.
.