Locust Valley Central School District schools honored the nearly 3,000 lives lost during the Sept. 11 attacks in ceremonies on Monday.
During the ceremony, Locust Valley High School student Sarah …
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9/15/23
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Heather Traynor, who grew up in Brooklyn, began spending summers in Long Beach in 1987, when her parents bought a home in the city.
Thirteen years later, Traynor was living in Queens, and visited …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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9/8/23
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Jijoe Joseph, 42, an emergency doctor who worked at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow from 2016 to 2020, can clearly remember Sept. 11, 2001, and, more so, how much his life changed …
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By Laura Lane
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9/16/21
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In the early evening of Sept. 11, 2001, Kathy Martinez Walsh and Patricia Magnus Brown, captains of the East Meadow Fire Department’s Rescue 5 Ambulance Company, were stationed at Chelsea Pier …
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By Laura Lane
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9/16/21
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“Do the right thing, even when no one is looking,” was Ray Pfeifer’s motto, according to his friends and family. Pfeifer, who was a member of the East Meadow Fire Department and the …
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By Mallory Wilson
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9/9/21
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It was a solemn evening in Franklin Square last Sunday, when firefighters from the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department and family members who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terrorist …
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By Melissa Koenig
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9/16/20
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Though there will be social distancing, masks and other safety protocols in place, the villages of Lynbrook and East Rockaway will still host their 9/11 memorial services this year.
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By Mike Smollins
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9/10/20
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Luis Alvarez “marched to his own beat” and liked to stay under the radar, recalled his oldest brother, Phil Alvarez.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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12/26/19
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After the second plane slammed into the south tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, New York City Police Officer Chris O’Connor tried to evacuate the area. With his back to the towers, he surveyed the crowd, urging people to quickly cross the street. They were looking at the sky.
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By Ben Strack
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9/6/18
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The villages of Lynbrook and East Rockaway will be hosting Sept. 11 memorial services to commemorate the lives lost in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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9/5/18
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