A park on Long Island will be named after a retired NYPD detective who died of cancer related to his work at ground zero and fought in Washington for continued benefits for other 9/11 responders. A resolution was filed to officially change the name of Terrell Avenue Park in Oceanside to Detective Luis G. Alvarez Memorial Park. Alvarez, an Oceanside resident, testified before Congress about the need for a permanent Victim Compensation Fund in the weeks before he died.

A Nassau park may soon bear the name of Luis G. Alvarez, the Oceanside man whose sacrifice after one of the country’s darkest days and dedication to fellow 9/11 first responders despite terminal cancer drew the admiration of the nation he served. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran filed a resolution Tuesday to rename Terrell Avenue Park in Oceanside after one of the village’s most revered residents, calling the retired New York Police Department bomb squad detective a “champion” for the men and women who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

The FDNY- Carolinas Retirees Association (FDNY-CRA), an organization of retired New York City Fire Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters who now reside in both North and South Carolina, will host and/or participate in 9/11 Memorial events on September 11. More.

A federal judge has ruled the FBI unlawfully withheld from the Florida Bulldog key sections of records of its investigation of a Saudi family that fled Sarasota two weeks before the 9/11 attacks – leaving behind cars, clothes, furniture, food and other belongings. More.

A group of volunteers descended on the 9/11 Postcards Memorial in St. George on Sunday for a clean-up of the venerated Staten Island monument. “This place is so special to so many people,” said Dominick DeRubbio, the executive director of “Friends of Postcards,” which is a group of concerned citizens who lost loved ones as a result of 9/11. More.

The 18th annual “Never Forget 9/11” Ceremony will be held at the Brook Park Veterans Memorial on Sylvia Drive at 10:30 a.m., Sept. 8, to honor and remember the victims of the four hijacked airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and the fields of Shanksville Pennsylvania. More.

Conceived in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the September 11th National Memorial Trail has been in the works for nearly 18 years. Over that time, the 1,300-mile, multistate trail has come together through a mixture of roadways, existing trails, and new trails that link the sites of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Va., and the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa.