The funeral ceremony for Detective Luis Alvarez, 53, was held at Immaculate Conception Church in Astoria, New York. Mourners included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and comedian Jon Stewart who saluted ...

Jon Stewart and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney stand with other attendees as the hearst carrying former NYPD Detective and 9/11 first responder, Luis Alvarez passes during his funeral service in ...

Images from the July 3, 2019, funeral for retired NYPD Det. Luis Alvarez, 53, who died Saturday in a Rockville Centre hospice of complications from colorectal cancer diagnosed in 2016.

A former New York City police detective who fought to extend health benefits for first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks up to the final days of his ...

Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD bomb squad detective who dedicated his final years fighting for compensation to individuals with health problems related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was mourned ...

Hundreds of mourners, including cops, firefighters and Jon Stewart, turned out Wednesday in Queens to say a final goodbye to Luis Alvarez, an NYPD detective who spent his final days desperately fig… ...

9/11 Responder Luis Alvarez, Who Testified with Jon Stewart, Is Now in Hospice Care “9/11 happened, we got called down. It’s my job as an NYPD detective to respond to emergencies,” he told ...

Hundreds of New York City police officers honored a former detective who fought until his final days for the extension of health benefits for 9/11 first responders.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo both skipped Wednesday’s funeral for retired NYPD Detective Luis Alvarez, who spent his dying days fighting for fellow first responders sickened by the ...

After turning 18, Mr. Alvarez served in the Marines. But it was in 1990, just shy of his 25th birthday, that he found his true calling, Ms. Lugo said, and joined the ranks of New York’s finest.