New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced his plan to release hundreds of thousands of documents from the aftermath of September 11.
As the anniversary of the worst terror attack on American soil approaches, Mamdani revealed that his administration will release upwards of 170,000 documents on air quality following the collapse of the Twin Towers. On Tuesday, he revealed the creation of a “public portal that will be freely accessible to every New Yorker,” Fox News reported.
“The creation of the portal came about after the city settled a lawsuit from 9/11 Health Watch, an advocacy organization that sued to obtain the documents now being released,” the article continued.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of air quality records from the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, shedding new light on what officials knew about toxic conditions around Ground Zero while publicly assuring residents… pic.twitter.com/NgM84ta008
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) September 8, 2026
Officials claim the documents show “asbestos remained present in parts of Lower Manhattan for months after the attacks and that benzene levels continued to spike near Ground Zero.”
Rep. Larry Nadler, D-New York, took a shot at Giuliani in his statement on the release.
“Now, we in the public know that City Hall, led by former Mayor Giuliani, predicted that thousands of responders and community members would face devastating long-term health consequences from these toxins,” he said Tuesday.
The documents being released Tuesday will specifically involve the Department of Environmental Protection files discovered across 68 boxes “a few years ago.” Also released will be the Harding memo, “a letter that was sent to Bob Harding, a deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani,” which reportedly “outlined that there could be tens of thousands of legal claims filed against the city.”
Among those celebrating the transparency is Jon Stewart, who has been one of the loudest voices advocating for the 9/11 first responders.
“There was poison in the air and on the ground and in the window sills and in your air conditioners and covering your pets and your clothes. And it stayed there for months,” he said during the press conference. “Everyone knew. And now it’s very clear that the city knew as well. And rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that that would cause to its citizens and to the people that were down there, they instead covered it up to get back to business as usual.”
The administration plans to release hundreds of thousands more documents going forward.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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