Jeffrey Wolkin was driving a cab when two planes hit the World Trade Center on 9/11 — and he soon became one of the days’ many little-known heroes.

The livery driver quickly started ferrying downtown workers out of harm’s way in lower Manhattan — and is now one of many brave hacks suffering from cancer connected to their part of the Sept. 11 response.

“Whichever way the wind was blowing, you smelled death – and you couldn’t forget it,” Wolkin, now 65, recalled from his home in Whitestone. “I smelled it every single day.” 5

The married father, who was 41 at the time, took fares in and out of Manhattan three times on that black Tuesday. He then spent some 223 hours shuttling clients below Houston street over the next 10 months.

Wolking is part of an un-sung segment of New Yorkers wh

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