A stretch of the Long Island Expressway could soon be dedicated to firefighters who died during the Sept. 11 terror attacks and in the years that followed, according to a proposal by state lawmakers.

State legislators in the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in June that would dedicate the area between Exit 59 and Exit 61 of the LIE to firefighters who died responding to the attacks in lower Manhattan and who’ve since died from 9/11-related illness.

Three hundred and forty-three members of the New York City Fire Department were killed the day the World Trade Center was struck nearly 24 years ago. The death toll from 9/11-related illnesses has surpassed those killed that day. To date, 407 FDNY members have died in subsequent years from illnesses related to their work in the aftermath

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