AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - New York City finally releases 170,000 pages of hidden 9/11 records on toxic air risks
Nearly 170,000 pages of long-suppressed city records on post-9/11 air quality went public this week, and the documents suggest New York officials knew about toxic exposure risks far earlier than they ever admitted. Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at City Hall on Tuesday and accused his predecessors of a decades-long cover-up, charging that city leaders told […] The post New York City finally releases 170,000 pages of hidden 9/11 records on toxic air risks appeared first on American Almanac .
Nearly 170,000 pages of long-suppressed city records on post-9/11 air quality went public this week, and the documents suggest New York officials knew about toxic exposure risks far earlier than they ever admitted. Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at City Hall on Tuesday and accused his predecessors of a decades-long cover-up, charging that city leaders told New Yorkers the air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe while internal memos warned of mass litigation from toxic exposure. The records, now posted to a public online portal, include health assessments, environmental testing results, and internal correspondence that advocates and attorneys have fought to pry loose for a quarter century. The release stems from a settlement of two…Open