Remembering The 9/11 Victims From New Hyde Park

NEW HYDE PARK, NY — Saturday marks 20 years since the deadliest terror attack on American soil.

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist-hijacked passenger planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The era-defining tragedies took the lives of 2,977 people, including more than 400 first responders.

Two decades later — even in the midst of a global pandemic — Americans will come together to honor those whose lives were snuffed out by terrorism.

Among those killed were 10 New Hyde Park residents:

• Christy A. Addamo, 28
• Jennifer L. Dorsey-Howley, 34
• Matthew James Grzymalski, 34
• Michael F. Lynch, 33
• Michael G. Montesi, 39
• Gerald Olcott, 55
• Richard A. Palazzolo, 39
• Dipti J. Patel, 38
• Gregory Reda, 33
• David Silver, 35

The Town of North Hempstead will be holding a memorial service at 8:15 a.m. on Saturday. During the service at Manhasset Valley Park, officials will unveil a monument featuring a 19-foot-long beam from the World Trade Center.