New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced plans to release more than 170,000 pages of documents detailing air quality around Ground Zero in the months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Speaking at a press conference in the City Hall Rotunda on Tuesday, Mamdani said the documents would be the first major release of records examining what the city knew about toxic air at Ground Zero, when officials became aware of it and what steps were taken to limit liability.
Mamdani said the release is aimed at providing new details about the health impacts and air quality concerns following the attacks.
He also announced that this will not be the only release. Over the next year, hundreds of thousands of additional documents will be made public through an online portal.
According to Mamdani, the portal will be freely accessible to every New Yorker, allowing the public to examine the records.
The announcement comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, with the administration preparing to make a much larger collection of documents available over the coming year.
