Speaker Julie Menin joins other elected representatives to reveal a $1 million funding initiative from the City Council for the 9/11 Memorial Museum and Tours exhibition. ( John McCarten/NYC Council Media Unit) City Council, Mamdani Unveil New Initiatives Ahead of 9/11 25th Anniversary Ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin joined other Council Members at Ground Zero... News 05 Sep 2026 | 11:13
Photographer Peter Foley was able to capture firefighters digging on the rubble on the day the towers fell because one of the lieutenants from the West Side firehouse where Foley had lived for a year smuggled him on board a bus transporting firefighters to search for survivors at Ground Zero. ( Photo: Courtesy Peter Foley) 25 Years After 9/11: World Trade Center Remembrances “That’s going to be a good one,” said the photographer “you have the World Trade Center in the background!” I remember the... Voices 04 Sep 2026 | 08:39
Over 87,000 people have signed a controversial petition to encourage event organizers to bar Mayor Zohran Mamdani from the 25th Anniversary Ceremony for 9/11. ( Credit: DHSgov, Wikimedia Commons) Petition to Bar Mamdani From 9/11 Ceremony Sparks Support, Backlash In the weeks leading up to the 25th Anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11, over 87,000 petitioners have called for for the Democratic... News 17 Aug 2026 | 01:18
A new 9/11 memorial was unveiled at Church of St. Francis of Assisi on Aug. 11, 2026. ( Photo: Brian Berger) New 9/11 Memorial Unveiled at Church of St. Francis of Assisi Exactly one month away from the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the Church of St. Francis of Assisi unveiled and consecrated a... News 14 Aug 2026 | 12:55
Assemblymember Grace Lee at press conference announcing $2 million from state budget to support 9/11-realted health research. Also pictured: Council Member Christopher Marte (left) and Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal (right) were joined by Dr. Amit Verma, Dr. David Prezant, Tammy Meltzer, and Jim Brosi. ( Photo: Martina Dimitrova) Grace Lee Announces $2 Million State Grant for 9/11 Health Research New York State has earmarked $2 million in the recently passed state budget for potentially health and life-saving genomic... News 11 Jun 2026 | 09:04
King Charles III (center) and Queen Camilla pay their respects at the reflecting pool at Ground Zero alongside former mayor Michael Bloomberg who is the chairman of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. ( Photo: 9/11 Memorial & Museum) Royals in NYC: King Charles and Queen Camilla Visit 9/11 Memorial In honor of the 25th anniversary of the lives lost during the 9/11 attack, British royals King Charles III and Queen Camilla... News 01 May 2026 | 10:49
Left: NYPD Running Club’s littlest member with his parents at the start. Right: 66th Precinct runners in the tunnel. ( Photos: Brian Berger, NYPD 66th Precinct) The Sun Shines Bright on 24th Annual Tunnel to Towers Run The mostly quiet weekend streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Lower Manhattan surged to abundant life as more than 30,000 people... News 29 Sep 2025 | 11:29
The World Trade Center “Tribute in Light” installation sent beams of hope heavenard from Ground Zero on 9/11/25, the 24th anniversary of the terror attack. ( Photo: Philip Maier) Terror Will Never Win: 1000s Gather at Ground Zero for 9/11 Memorial Born from the often unspeakable horrors that shocked the world on a bright, warm Tuesday morning 24 years ago, the solemn... News 15 Sep 2025 | 01:23
Firefighter mass at St. Francis of Assisi, Sept. 11, 2025. ( Photo: Michael Cancelleri Jr. / FDNY ) 9/11 Construction Workers, FDNY Victims Honored at Historic Church As bells tolled across the city on 9/11, a construction worker stood outside St. Francis of Assisi church in midtown Manhattan... News 14 Sep 2025 | 09:28
A photo in one collection: “ ‘Many Hands. One Hope. United We Stand’ banner along the Hudson River.” ( Photo: Danielle Sevier) Village Preservation Unveils Two New 9/11 Photo Collections The Village Preservation Society has added two new 9/11 collections to its photo archives of the attacks, adding to its nine... News 11 Sep 2025 | 05:15
An FDNY color guard streams pass the fountain in the vest pocket memorial park on W. 48th St. just of Eighth Ave. where friends and family members left red roses in memory of the 15 firefighters who died on 9-11 at Battalion 9, Engine 54, Truck 4 firehouse. It was the house that suffered the most casualties on 9-11. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) West Side House That Lost 15 Firefighters on 9-11 Marks Another Solemn Day Fifteen times the bell tolled as it has every year since 9-11, 2001 when 15 firefighters from Battalion 9, Engine 54 and... News 24 Sep 2024 | 01:30
Due to the premature deaths of first responders who worked on the pile after 9/11, the FDNY and NYPD pension funds are facing shortfalls that a bipartisan group of Congress members want FEMA to address. ( Photo: Peter Foley) Pension Shortfalls Created when 9/11 First Responders Die Young Hundreds of first responders from the NYPD and FDNY have died before their time from diseases caused by rescue and recovery... Voices 13 Sep 2024 | 06:33
Though he captured each one of the 15 firefighters in the mid-town firehouse before they died on 9/11, he said he rarely if ever returns to the house where he was invited to live as a photographer in the year before the attack on the World Trade Center 23 years ago. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Photographer Remembers the Firefighters at West Side House That Suffered Greatest Number of Casualties on 9/11 On 9/11, shortly after 8:46 a.m., fifteen firefighters from Engine Company 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9–every man in the house... News 11 Sep 2024 | 11:08
Standing on top of a crumpled fire truck with retired New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, President George W. Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, during an impromptu speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center towers. ( Eric Draper / George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum) FDNY Firefighter who stood next to Bush in historical 9/11 speech dies at 91 The firefighter who became a symbol of New York resilience in the dark days after 9/11 passed away on Feb. 4 at the age of... News 08 Feb 2024 | 04:32
The September 11 Commemoration Ceremony in 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Forever Epicenter History constantly recalibrates our threshold of the unfathomable. What we thought was unbearable turns out to have been... Home 08 Sep 2021 | 01:45
