Sept. 12: Five Things You Need to Know Today

1. New Yorkers gathered in droves at Ground Zero Sunday morning to pay tribute to the thousands of lives lost on 9/11. Check out our coverage here, here and . 

2. On Friday, we profiled local hero Louis Calderon, president of the Little Neck - Douglaston Community Ambulance Corps. Read his story here. 

3. The first Community Board 11 meeting of the fall will be held at 7:30 p.m. at MS 158, located at 46-35 Oceania Street in Bayside.

4. A stand-out high school basketball player was shot to death early Sunday in Morningside Heights. Tayshana Murphy, 18, was killed in what may have been a retaliation for an earlier scuffle, though it was unclear as to whether Murphy, who had just started her senior year, was involved. Read the full story from the New York Times here. 

5. The weather today is expected to be in the high 70s, with occasional cloudiness.