9/11 anniversary
Read stories and view photos of Long Islanders who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, and see the latest news headlines and more from Newsday.com as the nation marks this year's anniversary of 9/11.
As all four living former U.S. presidents and other dignitaries solemnly observed the 25th anniversary services on Friday, relatives slowly read the list of the 2,753 victims killed at One World Trade Center.
Tunnel to Towers said Friday that it had paid off the mortgages of 25 fallen first responders from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, including a dozen who died from illnesses connected to their exposure to the toxic dust in lower Manhattan after Sept. 11.
The picture was published in The Washington Post and, years later, brought together the photographer and the Woodmere firefighter whose image he captured.
A special agent who sifted through debris. A Port Authority police commander who oversaw cleanup. A volunteer firefighter who helped with rescue work.
Newsday editor Monica Quintanilla recounts how a "boring" start to a Tuesday turned into the most tragic and emotional of days.
Peter Kalikow, the MTA chairman at the time, had been on the job only for a few months.
The Giants became one of several beacons of hope for New York. But like many people, players had difficulty processing what they saw and felt.
The Mets' game against Atlanta at Shea Stadium on Sept. 21 was the first professional sporting event in New York City since the attacks.
An estimated 400,000 people were exposed to toxins on or after 9/11.
Joel Anabilah-Azumah, a congressional candidate in Brooklyn, doubled down in his conspiracy theories.
In statement, the former mayor denied Mayor Zohran Mamdani's assertion the city misled the public after 9/11 about air quality at and around Ground Zero.
Lila Speciner's story is among those being featured in a new History Channel documentary, "102 Minutes Inside the Towers."
The Oyster Bay resident became a part of the Karl Koch Erecting Company, the steel-erecting business founded by his father and grandfather in the 1920s.
'The Guys' will be performed Sunday during two free performances at the North Fork Arts Center in Greenport.
The measures include extending death and disability benefits for National Guard members and their beneficiaries, and lengthening the eligibility period for certain retirement benefits.
The event will feature 1,000 drones over the diner on Hempstead Turnpike.
More than 100 feature World Trade Center steel recovered after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
A Muslim 23-year-old NYPD cadet and paramedic living in Queens, was the subject of a police wanted poster after 9/11 until his remains were found at Ground Zero.
Chevat has been praised by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle for his tireless advocacy.
The creation of the TSA and stricter security screenings have made travelers safer, but advances in technology have helped ease some of the restrictions rolled out after 9/11.
The department's practice has been to increase deployments for major events.
Family and friends reflect on him as a "go-getter" who was always moving at "a million miles an hour."
Dr. John Howard returned to his post last year after being fired amid widespread federal government layoffs.
Patricia Smith looks back on her years in the spotlight as the girl in the red dress, and how she came to terms with grieving a mother she never knew.
Al Leiter, John Franco, Todd Zeile and Robin Ventura — members of the 2001 Mets — and David Wright kept the tradition going Tuesday with their visit to Ladder 25 in Manhattan.
Aaron Glenn was still in his playing days as a cornerback for the Jets and was getting treatment in the team's facility at Hofstra when the attacks occurred.
The Mamdani administration is releasing the long-secret files, which date to the aftermath of the attacks.
The poll found that a quarter of respondents report mental problems or trauma connected to 9/11 — 26% in New York City and 22% on Long Island.
Babylon's post-9/11 monument honors residents who died of diseases related to work at or near Ground Zero. Room has been left on the memorial to add more names to it.
Tributes, scholarships and a stone memorial on the Village Green are among the ways Garden City honors its residents who were lost on 9/11.
Everyone who remembers Sept. 11, 2001 has a story to tell, and this is mine, as a Newsday reporter covering the Giants as they navigated those trying times.
A method known as "investigative genetic genealogy" is helping officials identify victims where no DNA references exist.
The interviews, conducted between April 2010 and September 2024, are now permanently archived through the Library of Congress.
Some 11.3 million people visited the 9/11 memorial and 2.4 million went to the museum in 2025, according to the site's most recent annual report.
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, inspired a call to service in the U.S. that hadn't been seen since the attack on Pearl Harbor 60 years earlier. These are the stories of four Long Islanders who heeded the call.
The federal fiscal year ends at the end of September.
NYPD Dets. Joseph V. Vigiano and Claude Daniel Richards were killed while trying to rescue survivors in the Twin Towers.
After 25 years, educators are finding new ways to teach today's students about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The benches at the memorial are engraved with phrases honoring those who died and calling for a hopeful future.
For many of the approximately 100,000 Muslims living on Long Island, the deadliest terrorist act ever committed on U.S. soil — carried out by 19 al-Qaida hijackers — pointed an unwelcome spotlight at them.
Each new name is a reminder "that the legacy of Sept. 11 doesn't end on a single day," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said.
The World Trade Center Health Program has made "major advances" in identifying and treating 9/11-related health conditions, the report said.
The World Trade Center Health Program is working to raise awareness to young adults who may not realize they qualify for the program.
The new exhibit at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan highlights the legacy of service prompted by the terrorist attacks.
More than 100 NYPD officers were promoted to sergeant before hundreds of department officials, family members and friends at police headquarters.
Long Islanders are among those listed on the memorial near the agency's headquarters at 4 World Trade Center.
The 12-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide monument rises from the cemetery grounds in the shape of a cross. Its polished granite now bears the names of 640 people who died on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the years that followed.
Officials identified the remains as being that of a woman whose family did not want her full identity released.
FDNY and NYPD members from Long Island who were killed in the terrorist attacks will be among those honored with new street signs.
The new memorial will replace an aging one and is expected to be unveiled by Sept. 10, officials said.
