Sept. 11, 2001: Five years later

Mourners come from near and far

The chatter of old friends greeting one another at Colors Restaurant stopped Monday when 7-year-old Vanessa Valencia began to sing: "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER

Bush returns to sacred places

President George W. Bush descended to the depths of Ground Zero yesterday to mark the nation's worst day of pain and loss, laying wreaths where a pair of gleaming towers crumbled to earth in a spasm of terrorist fury five years ago today.

9/11 FIVE YEARS LATER

Bush to dine with 9/11 heroes

President George W. Bush will start Monday's 9/11 anniversary with breakfast at a Lower East Side firehouse and close it with a prime-time Oval Office address.

Families join together for 9/11 anniversary

The Adams and the John families met early Monday morning on the sidewalk just outside their neighboring Flatbush apartments.

9/11 FIVE YEARS LATER

Better screening with NY in mind

Describing terrorists' desire to detonate weapons of mass destruction inside the United States as "the No. 1 thing we have to attend to," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that the federal government was deploying radiation screening devices along "principal pathways" into New York City to stop a potentially catastrophic attack.

Evolving Al-Qaida, Still a Threat

Some call it al-Qaida 2.0, while others call it al-Qaida Lite.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Tower one worker recalls evacuation

On Sept. 11, Rose Parascandola, of Bensonhurst, was in Tower One, on the 51st floor, working for TradeWeb. Today, she remains with TradeWeb, an online trading company, as an administrative assistant.

Bag checks and explosives swabs: a new NYC reality

New York is a city reinvented. Since the World Trade Center attacks five years ago shattered the illusion of safety, its residents have grown accustomed to metal detectors in office buildings, bag checks and explosives swabs in subway stations and machine-gun toting cops.

NYC to open WTC-related health center

As evidence of long-term health effects from World Trade Center exposure continues to mount, Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday announced efforts to ramp up the city's response to 9/11-related ailments, including expansion of the Health Department unit monitoring those affected.

Undocumented workers uncounted victims of 9/11

The official death toll from the World Trade Center attack is a staggering 2,749, but for many people, that number will never tell the whole story because it is simply not large enough.

Immigrant workers facing WTC illnesses

They swept up toxic dust from offices and sidewalks along Ground Zero, or simply remained in their lower Manhattan neighborhoods, living and working as life came back to normal.

Whitman: 9/11 health woes are city's fault

Former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman is blaming the city for not forcing Ground Zero workers to wear respirators, prompting a fiery response from the city's top lawyer.

U.S. to speed up illness funds

U.S. Health and Human Services chief Michael Leavitt will release $75 million allocated by Congress for World Trade Center-related illnesses in early October - months earlier than projected.

ANALYSIS

Putting a face on his strategy

In lifting the veil off his secret terror prisons, a poll-battered President George W. Bush strengthened his political hand as he shifts to next week's 9/11 ceremonies in lower Manhattan and elsewhere, several analysts said yesterday - not a bit too soon ahead of the fall midterm elections.

Young and Muslim in NYC

Five years ago 12-year-old Tahara Miah was sitting in a Lower East Side classroom when "wham," the 9/11 terror attacks rocked the world -- her world and her city.

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Late on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, Wendell S. Storms and his wife left their Levittown home to drive to Jones Beach. They had taken this short trip a thousand times before on clear days, and always when they did, they looked west, toward New York City.