4+ day, 23+ min ago   (501+ words) GLENDALE — For Frank Kotnik, the years since 9/11 have brought painful memories, health struggles, and the lasting weight of what he saw while working at ground zero. But through every difficult chapter, he said, faith has given him the strength to…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (424+ words) Memories and commemorations can be two different things. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. These remain…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (333+ words) by Bishop Robert Brennan This week, we mark the 25th anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. At the same time, for the rest of us, the magnitude of the tragedy of that day is painfully seared in our memories even…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (366+ words) I remember exactly what I was doing on Sept. 11, 2001. While driving to a principals’ meeting, I heard on the radio that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I announced this as I entered the meeting. A TV…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1376+ words) BAY RIDGE — For many who were children on Sept. 11, 2001, the day is filled with memories of learning about the attacks from their teachers and the sad looks on the faces of their parents when picking them up from school earlier…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (80+ words) On September 9, 2026 The Tablet’s walking pilgrimage through the Diocese of Brooklyn marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Stopping at several significant 9/11 memorials within Brooklyn, reporters share the stories of parishioners, students, families, and heroes affected by that day. CLIICK…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (747+ words) HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. — Port Authority engineer Paul Carris was trying to save a co-worker’s life when he helped her down 71 flights of stairs in the North Tower on 9/11. What he did not know at the time was that the long descent…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (693+ words) LOWER MANHATTAN — Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Gabriella Abate and Ian Dannenfelser are too young to remember the day that changed their families. Neither had even been born. Both lost their grandfathers to illnesses linked to the aftermath…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (876+ words) DYKER HEIGHTS — To this day, Msgr. Robert Romano cannot bring himself to watch footage of the World Trade Center attack. “I turn my head,” he said. Video of the hijacked jetliners slamming into the Twin Towers and the buildings collapsing…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (674+ words) SHEEPSHEAD BAY — Every year on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Carlos and Brenda Rodriguez bring their son Giancarlo to a candlelight vigil at a memorial wall in their neighborhood. The ceremony takes place at a memorial wall in…...