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A behind-the-scenes look at New York Fashion Week’s Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection 2017 runway show.

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Take a look around at New York Fashion Week’s Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection runway show. The star-studded event, hosted by Katie Holmes, was held at Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown on Feb. 9, 2017. Credit: Chris Ware

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Separate & Unequal

An 18-month Newsday investigation dug deep into millions of Nassau property records to reveal stark differences in tax bills and an assessment system weighted against the middle class and poor.

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Sound unusual? It’s not.

61% of Nassau property owners have appealed their property taxes and have typically seen decreases or modest increases.

While 39%have not challenged their taxes and have typically seen their tax bills soar.

Among those with tax bill cuts
were nearly 11,000 properties
the county valued at $1 MILLION+

The burden shifted onto others including more than 6,400 middle-or-low income senior and disabled homes with tax bill increases of $2,400 OR MORE.

Homeowners in minority communities, who tend to file fewer challenges, are now assessed at a level 17% higher than properties elsewhere.

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?

The county, schools, towns and other governments need to collect enough money to fund their budgets.

One way they do this is by collecting property taxes.

Nassau officials have settled nearly 700,000 assessment challenges since 2010.

This saved challengers an estimated $1.7 billion in taxes.

But to balance their budgets, governments had to raise tax rates, shifting the burden onto those who didn’t grieve.

Tax bills of the typical property owner who appealed went up just $466, while the bills of those who didn’t increased $2,748.

Grievances & Bills

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

% of properties that appealed

49.5%

CHANGE IN MEDIAN FOR CHALLENGERS

$329

CHANGE IN MEDIAN FOR THOSE WHO DIDN’T

$1855

And nearly half of the estimated savings, $789 MILLION, went to owners of
$1 million+ properties.

Savings breakdown

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Top 25% Home Value

54M

3rd 25%

14M

2nd 25%

9M

Bottom 25%

5M

HOW DID THIS AFFECT YOU?

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9/11 remembered: Generation Y reflects on the 15th anniversary

Gen Y is the last generation that will have personal memories of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Now between the ages 18 and 34 years old, most millennials have lived in a post-9/11 world for half their lives and, for many, the tragedy shaped their futures.

amNewYork spoke with six individuals in this age group, all of whom were living in the New York area at the time of the terrorist attacks. Each one had a different experience on the tragic day, but they all recognize the attack as a formative moment for their generation.

“It has an effect on us subconsciously,” Terrease Aiken, who lost her father, said. “And it affects everything we do.”

Victims on 9/11, by borough

9/11 victims

  • Manhattan: 2,753 (total)
  • North Tower: 1,470
  • South Tower: 695
  • FDNY: 346
  • NYPD: 23
  • Port Authority Police Department: 37
  • Other first responders: 35
  • Flight 11: 87
  • Flight 175: 60
  • Pentagon: 184 (total)
  • Flight 77: 59
  • Flight 93: 40

Source: 9/11 Memorial Museum

“The world changed instantly,” Erin Coughlin, a 31-year-old NYPD officer, said as she stood in front of the Battery Park Police Memorial, which bears her father’s name. She added that her generation went from being sheltered to understanding that “the world’s a little more scary sometimes.”

And for many, it created a sense of cynicism, Absar Alam, 22, said. “We question everything. We question the world. We question everyone’s motives.”

Looking back 15 years later, these six shared their memories, as well as how their perspectives have changed since the attacks.

6 voices, 15 years later

Terrease Aiken

“It took us some time to really cope with the fact that he wasn’t coming back and he was no longer missing.”

On Sept. 11, 2001, Terrease Aiken sat with her two younger brothers in front of the television, hoping to see her dad come out of the smoke.

“I knew if I could just see his face, I would know he was OK,” she said.

Aiken was 8 years old and living on Staten Island at the time. Her father, Terrance, 30, had started work as a computer consultant for Marsh & McLennan in the north tower on Sept. 4, 2001. He was on the 97th floor.

Her mom had tried calling him, but there was no answer. A day went by, and another.

“We didn’t really know what was going on,” Aiken said. “It took us some time to really cope with the fact that he wasn’t coming back and he was no longer missing.”

Aiken, now 23 and a 2016 graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, said it’s still hard to understand what happened that day. “How do you go to work and then a plane just goes into your building?” she asked. At the time, she said, she became scared of everything. “Knowing that you can lose someone like that, so fast and so tragically, I was terrified that that was gonna happen again to my family.”

After the terror attacks, Aiken’s family moved from Staten Island to upstate New York, then to Georgia and then back upstate. She returned to New York City when she started at NYU.

“I always felt like New York was my home,” she said. Even with the memories of 9/11, she said she knows New York is the place she is meant to be. “I can’t just go avoiding a city because of what happened,” she said.

Aiken lived in an NYU dorm on Lafayette and Franklin streets, which is only a 20-minute walk from the World Trade Center. “For the most part I tried not to think about the fact that I was so close to it,” she said.

But Aiken said she tries not to think about 9/11 as only a negative.

“To me it’s a tragedy, but I don’t choose to wear that,” she said. “Because I went through something like that at such a young age, it makes me really appreciate things that are around me and really appreciate life and not want to give up.”

Absar Alam

On 9/11, he was a third grader, one of two Muslim students at his Bay Ridge school.

As one of two Muslim students at Our Lady of Angels school in Bay Ridge, third-grader Absar Alam didn’t think much about what it meant to be a Muslim American. After 9/11, “the terms were set for me,” Alam, now 22, said.

He recalls the worry of his parents, who told him only that “crazy people” had piloted planes into the buildings filled with innocent people. His parents fretfully debated as to whether his mother, an immigrant from India, should wear her hijab outside the house. Alam and his younger brother were told to never deny being Muslim, but also not to “create a big deal” out of their faith.

One week after the attacks, “cliques started to form” in school: He and the other Muslim boy were not permitted in any of them. “I felt stigmatized,” Alam recalled. At a schoolwide assembly, the principal laid down the law: Kindness and inclusiveness would be practiced by everyone.

“Sister Elizabeth! Bless her soul. She made it a point to have us included in everything. I was really glad she took that stance.”

Attending Catholic school and maturing in a city that exposed him to “all three major monotheistic faiths” taught him that reasonable Muslims, Christians and Jews share the same beliefs around personal responsibility, the importance of practicing kindness, participating in charitable acts and working to make the world a better place.

But Alam also felt that Muslim Americans seemed not to have equal standing to critique foreign policy having to do with majority Muslim countries.

“Muslims who criticized the Iraq invasion were seen as terrorist sympathizers or having a conflict of interest: It was completely weird,” he said.

He added that the Iraq war created a generation of cynics, largely because weapons of mass destruction, the reason behind the invasion, were never found. “It goes against all our innate yearning for hope. If there is one thing that 9/11 — and then the war in Iraq — taught us, it is that violence is not the answer.”

Alam, who graduated from NYU last year with a degree in business and technology management and finance, is a co-founder of an all-inclusive business services consultancy and is also active in charity work and the nationwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association. As a Muslim American, he is especially grateful to non-Muslims who have taken issue with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rhetoric, and is distressed by those who have subjected his community to unwarranted racial and ethnic profiling as a result of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

“In the overall scope of my life, (9/11) definitely played a role. I like to think it shaped me for the better,” he said. “I want to run for public office. I’d like to run for the City Council — and make a pass at mayor after that.”

Erin Coughlin

Then a junior in high school, she remembers getting the call about her father, a police sergeant who worked in the Bronx.

When Erin Coughlin first heard about the attacks on the World Trade Center, she knew her dad would be at the scene.

Her father, Sgt. John Coughlin, was a member of the NYPD’s ESU Truck 4.

“He worked in the Bronx, so I didn’t think he would be there right away, but I knew he would be there,” she said.

Coughlin, 31, was a junior in high school in Rockland County at the time. She remembers her mother getting a call from an officer who worked with her dad, saying someone was going to pick her mom up and take her to 1 Police Plaza. But Coughlin said she had a gut feeling that something was wrong.

“We knew something was up,” Coughlin said. The phone call confirmed that her father was listed as missing.

She would later learn that her dad, who worked in the NYPD for 18 years, died trying to rescue people trapped in the towers. He was 43.

Coughlin, who joined the police force herself in July 2012, said even at a young age she always knew something bad could happen to her dad any time he left for work.

“Anyone I grew up with who had family members who did other things for a living, they didn’t go to the door and say bye to their dad and tell them that they loved him and to be careful,” she said. “I grew up knowing that at any point it could happen, and our worst nightmare came true.”

But the risks of being a police officer didn’t stop her from becoming one. Now serving in the 33rd Precinct, Coughlin carries a little bit of her dad with her each day. The moment she learned she would be a cop, she decided she wanted to wear the shield number 2275 — the same number her father wore when he was a police officer.

“It’s such an honor that, as I show up to work every day and interact with the public, he’s still with me,” she said. “It’s just that little bit of him I get to keep.”

Coughlin spoke about her dad in front of the Battery Park Police Memorial Wall, which honors NYPD members who died in the line of duty. Coughlin said the wall is more intimate than the Sept. 11 memorial across the street. When she visits by herself, she quietly finds her dad’s name.

“He’s up there right now with his guys,” she said. “His guys are on that wall with him.”

9/11 memorials in NYC

Peter James Kiernan

“Very suddenly, that notion of making the ultimate sacrifice became a reality,” says Kiernan, who joined the U.S. Marines at age 18.

Of the 2,753 people killed in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, more than 40 came from Peter James Kiernan’s hometown of Babylon.

“Everybody had somebody” they lost or who was grievously affected by the catastrophe, he recalled. In his own family, an uncle working in the north tower who had been relentlessly nagged by his wife to quit smoking was saved because he had left the building while on a smoke break. “After that, he just refused” to even consider stopping, Kiernan said.

“Very suddenly, that notion of making the ultimate sacrifice became a reality,” said Kiernan, who was in seventh grade on 9/11. “Most young men feel some sort of calling for service, to be a part of an organization that is bigger than themselves,” and Kiernan longed to be a part of the nation’s defense.

The terror attacks were a catalyst that drove Kiernan, now 26 and living in Morningside Heights, to join the U.S. Marines when he turned 18, infuriating his schoolteacher mom and contractor-handyman dad, who preferred he go to college. But if the United States is to have a good military, he reasoned, “good people have to join.”

Kiernan said he was the youngest person ever to join the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (he was selected at age 18, graduating at 19) — “then they changed the rules so it can’t happen again,” he said.

After becoming fluent in Pashto and the tradecraft skills of sniping, explosives and intelligence, he was sent to Afghanistan in 2012 as a MARSOC Raider. It was a very bloody time. Mourning Afghan friends and fellow fighters who were killed, the sergeant came to several epiphanies: Terrorism, he realized, takes root easily when people are ignorant and isolated. Peace is more reliably achieved with communication and education than physical aggression.

Kiernan left the Marines in 2013. He is now a senior studying political science at Columbia University and is the president and founder of The Ivy League Veterans Council, an organization devoted to destroying the structural, cultural and institutional barriers confronting veterans at elite universities. His aim, he says, is not only to elevate the role of veterans in national policy, but to help prevent terrorist attacks and unnecessary wars.

“The better educated a society is, the less chance we have of fighting each other. I came to realize I want a bigger impact than just my little corner of a battlefield. I was leading 30 men into the battlefield, but I want to do more to improve their lives … Policy can have disastrous effects on the battlefield: I want to prevent that.”

Ritchie Torres

“On 9/11, these distant debates about politics and foreign policy felt less distant.”

New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres didn’t have an interest in politics until 9/11.

He was 13 years old, living in Throgs Neck, when the Twin Towers were attacked. He recalled getting picked up from school by his older sister and hearing on the radio that a plane had crashed into the north tower.

“I had assumed it was an accident,” he said, until the second plane hit the south tower. Torres sat with his siblings, cousins and uncle at his grandmother’s house and watched the news in shock.

“I got a call from my mother, who was crying hysterically as if the world was coming to an end and she was never going to see me again,” he said.

Fortunately, Torres’ family was safe, but like many New Yorkers, his life had still changed.

“When I was 13 years old, I had no interest in the world, no interest in politics, no interest in foreign policy,” he said. “But on 9/11, these distant debates about politics and foreign policy felt less distant.”

Torres, now 28 and representing District 15 in the Bronx as a Democrat, still struggles with the politics that emerged from 9/11. He recognizes the date as the reason for changes in policing, counterterrorism and surveillance in New York City.

“In every constitutional democracy and every constitutional republic, you have a balancing act between personal freedom and security, but since 9/11, it seems to me this pendulum has swung sharply in the direction of security,” he said. “We live in a more complex world, and I have no easy answers for the right balancing act.”

Torres said he has also become more suspicious of American intervention abroad, adding that he can’t imagine the United States without a presence in the Middle East.

“Even when you seek to do good abroad, there’s no telling what Pandora’s box you’re opening. Intervention in countries that we know very little about can have any number of consequences, can entangle us in asymmetrical warfare for decades,” he said. “Permanent warfare seems to be the legacy of 9/11.”

Because of that sense of endless conflict, Torres said he feels his generation has a more tragic view of the world.

“There’s reason to think millennials are more pessimistic about the future than the generation before,” he said. “Growing up amid 9/11, amid the Iraq War, you have a sense that history will never end, that we’re in a cycle of never-ending violence and warfare.”

Torres said he thinks the city, and country, has struggled to move past 9/11 as it memorializes it each year.

“The challenge for me is, how do you remember 9/11 without becoming enslaved by it?” he said.

9/11 memorials around the world

Helaina Hovitz

Leaving school just blocks from the WTC, a 12-year-old Hovitz saw the attacks and their aftermath up close.

The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers have defined Helaina Hovitz’s entire life and career.

Her school, I.S. 89, was six blocks away from the World Trade Center. After a plane plowed into the north tower, a neighbor retrieving her son from school offered to take Helaina, then a 12-year-old seventh-grader, home with her own son.

The trip home was a nightmare. Hovitz and her neighbors saw people tumbling through the air to their deaths. Then the south and north towers collapsed, enveloping her in a blanket of debris and black smoke.

“We were running for our lives. I kept thinking I was going to die and never see my parents again. I thought we were being bombed. When the second tower fell, we found a loophole by the Smith Houses Projects under the FDR Drive, where we waited for the smoke to clear.” The windows of her apartment facing the towers were black. Cellphone service was nil. “Every second became more and more traumatic,” Hovitz, now 27, recalled.

“People who survived and didn’t lose anyone were lucky, but we still lost a lot — and to this day we don’t feel like we have the right to talk about it,” said Hovitz, who still lives about six blocks from the World Trade Center site.

She grew up resenting not only the destruction of her neighborhood, but the gawking of tourists who came to see the damage. The terror attacks marked the dawning of a new age of fear, and when Hovitz and her classmates returned to school, restrictive new rules hampered their freedom of movement.

Normal teenage angst was amplified by an early experience that taught her “no adult could ever keep us safe.” She experimented with drugs and drank too much, cycling through therapists.

“It took me eight years to get the right diagnosis” of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the correct treatment, she said. Now sober for five years, Hovitz is a graduate of The New School and a journalist who has written for Newsday. She researched the fallout 9/11 had on her fellow students and wrote “After 9/11: One Girl’s Journey Through Darkness to a New Beginning,” which will be released by Skyhorse Publishing in September.

Processing the horror of 9/11 made her realize the importance of hopeful, solution-oriented, inspirational stories instead of dwelling on all that is wrong in the world. That epiphany led Hovitz, earlier this year, to co-found “Headlines for the Hopeful,” a digital news service that spotlights individuals and organizations working to create a better future.

“People need to see there is good in the world and that there are good people looking to help and make a difference,” Hovitz explained. “It’s a cliché, but it’s true: If you can change the way you look at the world, you can change the world.”

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Pope Francis in the United States

Pope Francis was in New York City from Sept. 24-26, 2015, making stops at the United Nations, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Madison Square Garden and more. The pontiff began his historic trip Sept. 19 in Cuba. On Sept. 22 he traveled to Washington, D.C., where he stayed until Sept. 24. His journey wrapped up in Philadelphia on Sept. 26-27.

Pope's final U.S. Mass attracts nearly 1 million in Philadelphia

Capstone event

Pope's final U.S. Mass attracts nearly 1 million in Philadelphia

Pope Francis closed out his historic nine-day mission to Cuba and the United States with an extraordinary Mass in the streets of downtown Philadelphia Sunday before an estimated crowd of nearly 1 million worshippers -- a gathering that the pontiff called 'a miracle.'

AP / Matt Rourke

Pope writes his own speeches, spokesman says

Travels With the Pope

Pope writes his own speeches, spokesman says

'The Holy Father likes to have a direct control over the message he gives,' said the Rev. Manuel Dorantes, a U.S.-based assistant to the Vatican's spokesman. Bart Jones has the story.

Getty Images / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

Pope promises 'accountability' in sex abuse scandal

In Francis' Footsteps

Pope promises 'accountability' in sex abuse scandal

The pope broke new ground in the Catholic Church's long struggle to respond to a damaging clergy sex-abuse scandal with his unqualified promise, Paul Moses writes.

Newsday / Chuck Fadely

Pope's visit: A deep well of stories, photos and videos

Complete coverage

Pope's visit: A deep well of stories, photos and videos

Read about the scene as the pontiff departed, see the best photos from his U.S. visit, get notable quotes from his papacy and much more in Newsday's Pope Francis Visit section.

Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara

Pope Francis in Philadelphia: Sept. 26-27

Pope Francis apologizes to sex abuse victims

Pope in Philadelphia

Pope Francis apologizes to sex abuse victims

At a Philadelphia-area seminary, the pope met in private with survivors of sex abuse and then talked with bishops separately about the scandal and extolled the virtues of family life.

Getty Images / Drew Angerer

Pope gives clarion call for religious freedom

Pope in Philadelphia

Pope gives clarion call for religious freedom

At the birthplace of American democracy, the pope gave an impassioned call for religious liberty and saluted immigrants, telling them, 'Don't ever be ashamed of your traditions.'

Pool / EPA / Tony Gentile

Pope speaks of joys, struggles of family life at festival

Festival of Families

Pope speaks of joys, struggles of family life at festival

Riveted Catholics listened and laughed as an animated Pope Francis described the joys and struggles of family life before a crowd of thousands filling a main boulevard of Philadelphia.

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Pope Francis analysis, commentary and opinion

Francis' words

'A profound message'

Francis' words

Pope Francis had an agenda of stunning breadth.

Pool / Getty Images

Political cartoons

Cartoonists on pope

Political cartoons

Editorial cartoonists respond to the pope's visit.

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A challenge

Editorial

A challenge

Pope Francis inspires us to debate honestly and compassionately.

AFP / Getty Images / Vincenzo Pinto

In-depth features

A pope who takes a different path

Profile

A pope who takes a different path

Like his namesake saint from Assisi, Pope Francis likes to shock people to get his message across. Paul Moses explores the life of a church leader who has been full of surprises.

AP / Andrew Medichini

See readers' notes to the pope

Messages for the pope

See readers' notes to the pope

As head of the Catholic Church and by the force of his personality, Pope Francis has emerged as one of the world’s most influential and energetic leaders. Readers told us what messages they wanted to deliver to the pope.

Newsday / Matt Davies

Pope Francis in New York City: Sept. 24-26

Pope laughs, takes selfies at Catholic school

East Harlem

Pope laughs, takes selfies at Catholic school

A playful Pope Francis laughed, played and took lots and lots of selfies with hundreds of inner-city schoolchildren during a visit to East Harlem.

Pool / EPA / Eric Thayer

Pope at Ground Zero: 'Here grief is palpable'

Remembering 9/11

Pope at Ground Zero: 'Here grief is palpable'

Silence, punctuated only by cascading water, the occasional click of a camera or a child's cry, fell as the pope fixed his gaze on an avalanche of names.

Pool / Getty Images / Julio Cortez

Pope asks faithful to break out of 'Big City' isolation

Madison Square Garden

Pope asks faithful to break out of 'Big City' isolation

The pope asked 20,000 people to shed selfishness and isolation, and reach out to those in the 'big city' who exist in 'deafening anonymity.'

Pool / EPA / Michael Appleton

Pope Francis in Cuba: Sept. 19-22

Pope speaks of humility, mercy at historic Cuban Mass

150,000 at Mass

Pope speaks of humility, mercy at historic Cuban Mass

Pope Francis blessed Holguín from Loma de la Cruz, the site of a distinctive wooden cross that overlooks the Cuban city.

EPA / Alejandro Bolivar

Pope focuses on 'revolution of tenderness'

Cuba visit

Pope focuses on 'revolution of tenderness'

Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the most sacred Catholic shrine on the Communist-led island, telling the faithful to live a 'revolution of tenderness.'

Getty Images / Filiippo Monteforte

Pope Francis to Cubans: Serve everyone

A gentle warning

Pope Francis to Cubans: Serve everyone

In his homily at a Mass in Havana's Revolution Square -- attended by Cuban President Raúl Castro -- Pope Francis urged service to people, not ideas.

EPA / Tony Gentile

Long Island impact

LIer meets pope at the airport

'I totally filled up'

LIer meets pope at the airport

Joseph D'Aleo of Rockville Centre, a New York City Sanitation Department supervisor sick with a 9/11-related disease, shook hands with Pope Francis.

Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara

Hearing the Word of God in Spanish

A growing constituency

Hearing the Word of God in Spanish

Parishioners at St. Rosalie's pray and worship in Spanish every Sunday afternoon. See photos from two services at the Hampton Bays church.

Johnny Milano

Pope's favorability on LI soars

Newsday/News 12/Siena College poll

Pope's favorability on LI soars

The pontiff gets very high favorability ratings from LIers, despite disagreements on political and social issues.

Massimo Valicchia / NurPhoto / Sipa

Pope Francis visit photos, video

Francis' notable quotes

What he's said

Francis' notable quotes

See some of Pope Francis' notable quotes, from his 2013 installation to his remarks to Congress and the United Nations.

Getty Images / Alberto Pizzoli

From 'Shepherd One' to NYC

Behind the scenes

From 'Shepherd One' to NYC

See behind-the-scenes photos from the trip -- including the pontiff greeting Newsday's Bart Jones aboard the papal plane.

Newsday / Alejandra Villa

Pope's sojourn in a Communist country

Eyes on Cuba

Pope's sojourn in a Communist country

See images from the pope's time in Cuba, including his Mass in Havana's Revolution Plaza.

Getty Images / Adalberto Roque

Pope Francis, now and then

Through the years

Pope Francis, now and then

See what Jorge Mario Bergoglio looked like as a teenager in Buenos Aires.

AP

A fleeting quest

Pope in NYC

A fleeting quest

Tens of thousands of people waited most of the day Friday to see Pope Francis in Central Park.

Newsday / Chuck Fadely and Jessica Rotkiewicz

Historic papal visits to the U.S.

Who's come before

Historic papal visits to the U.S.

Pope Francis' trip comes a half-century after Pope Paul VI made the first papal visit here.

AP

Pope Francis in the United States

Pope Francis will be in New York City from Sept. 24 to 26, visiting the United Nations, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Madison Square Garden and more. Find details on the very limited tickets for the pope’s events at popefrancisnyc.org. The pontiff began his historic trip Sept. 19 in Cuba, where he remained until flying to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 22, where he will remain until the 24th. His last stop is Philadelphia, from Sept. 26 to 27.

Pope's visit: What you need to know

Complete coverage

Pope's visit: What you need to know

Dive deep into amNewYork's Pope Francis coverage, from how the city is preparing to St. Pat's renovation.

Newsday / Alejandra Villa

What commuters need to know

Pope traffic guide

What commuters need to know

Thousands of New Yorkers will be affected by street closures, bus route changes and traffic disruptions.

Getty Images

Pope: Nuns are 'women of strength.'

Pope Francis at St. Pat's

Pope: Nuns are 'women of strength.'

Francis spoke of his esteem and gratitude toward religious women in the U.S.

Getty Images / Carl Court

Pope to visit Catholic school

Papal visit to East Harlem

Pope to visit Catholic school

Francis's visit to the school is giving the neighborhood a newfound sense of meaning.

Getty Images / Spencer Platt

What would you tell the pope?

Send your message

What would you tell the pope?

As the pope prepares to address Congress and the United Nations, what is the message you want him to deliver? Send us yours -- and it may appear on the Seventh Avenue Marquee at Madison Square Garden before the papal Mass there.

Getty Images / Filippo Monteforte

Pope Francis in New York City: Sept. 24-26

Big security response to pope's visit

Pope's visit: by the numbers

Big security response to pope's visit

The police will use 24,500 barriers totaling about 37 miles.

Charles Eckert

From Harlem to the UN

Pope's itinerary

From Harlem to the UN

Busy schedule includes high-profile speech at the United Nations' General Assembly, meeting with immigrants and refugees and visit to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Getty Images / Franco Origlia

Papal visit sparks deluge of pope-related goods

Pope souvenirs

Papal visit sparks deluge of pope-related goods

Papal flags, Francis coffee mugs and blue-glass pope vases can be had for a few dollars apiece.

Getty Images / Spencer Platt

Pope Francis analysis, commentary and opinion

 

Climate change

Pope's warning

Climate change

Why his encyclical matters.

Getty Images / Vincenzo Pinto

Political cartoons

Cartoonists on pope

Political cartoons

Through another lens.

Columbia Daily Tribune / John Darkow

Ungodly prices

Unbridled capitalism

Ungodly prices

The irony of scalping pope tickets.

Getty Images / AFP / Vincenzo Pinto

Heroin: Addicted on Long Island – Follow Up

News 12 Long Island continues our ‘Heroin: Addicted on Long Island’ series with a follow-up investigation examining the drug’s increasing reach in Nassau and Suffolk. News 12 will look at stories of recovery, relapse and the view on the streets with law enforcement. As part of our coverage, we will be seeking your thoughts and opinions in a special Facebook Q&A starting this week.

Want more expert insight? Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Executive Director Steven Chassman answers important questions about drug addiction and recovery in a series of video interviews below. This FAQ provided by LICADD supplements the video segments.

Heroin: Addicted on Long Island – Follow Up. Airs June 2, 3 and 4 in the 8 a.m. hour. Only on News 12 Long Island and News12.com.

Witness to History: Long Island Remembers WWII

A Newsday/News12 Report

Witness to History:Long Island Remembers WWII

In 1945, the world was engaged in the final battles of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters. Seventy years later, Long Island remembers the efforts of our local servicemen and women who served in the second great war that helped define the 20th century.

Avenging Japan's 'sneak attack'

Pete Fabregas

Avenging Japan's 'sneak attack'

"There were guys in my neighborhood who packed their lunch and left their houses within minutes of the announcement," Fabregas,of Massapequa Park, recalled. "I was envious of them, although I never saw some of them ever again."

Courtesy of Pete Fabregas

War Stories

Long Islanders in Service

War Stories

Throughout 1945, servicemen and women from all over Long Island were involved in the final push to reach Victory in Europe and Victory in the Pacific. Here are their stories.

Courtesy photo

What was left behind

Explore

What was left behind

A collection of World War II relics from LI and NYC veterans

Amy Onorato

Animal mascots of WWII

A soldier's best friend

Animal mascots of WWII

A collection of animals that served in World War II, and the humans who cared for them.

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World War II: Timeline of Events

Major Moments

World War II: Timeline of Events

Explore key events, major battles and milestones throughout World War II.

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Then and Now

Life after service

Then and Now

Photos of Long Islanders at war, and where they are now.

Newsday Staff

Front page news

From the Archives

Front page news

See what made headlines in this collection of Newsday covers from World War II.

Newsday Archives

Remembering our fallen heroes

See the numbers

Remembering our fallen heroes

The New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center lists 43,254 New Yorkers who died in service during World War II. Find them here.

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Past coverage

In the news

Past coverage

Newsday stories from World War II.

Newsday Archives

Designer: Anthony Carrozzo; Producer: Amy Onorato; Photo editor: Oswaldo Jimenez; Video: Matthew Golub Copy editor: Martha Guevara

Content

Witness to history
Long Island remembers World War II
WWII Timeline
A timeline of key events throughout World War II
War stories
Long Island veterans share their stories of service
News 12 report
News 12 remembers World War II
Left Behind
World War II relics from Long Island and NYC
From the archives
Newsday covers from World War II
Remembering our fallen heroes
New Yorkers who died in World War II
Then and now
Long Island veterans during wartime and where they are now
Past coverage
Past Newsday coverage of World War II