A Highland Mills widow who has spent eight years fighting New York City for 9/11 survivor benefits says she was stunned to hear Mayor Zohran Mamdani invoke her late husband’s name during Wednesday’s dedication of the NYPD’s new 9/11 Memorial Wall — a memorial that does not include his name.
Cathy Hanson says her husband, Mike Hanson, an NYPD Emergency Service Unit officer, spent nine months working at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attacks. He later developed ALS and died in 2018.
Hanson says her claim for 9/11 survivor benefits has been denied 13 times because ALS is not recognized as a qualifying 9/11-related condition…