Newly opened records show fears over air quality after 9/11 attacks
Dust and debris cloud the air near the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Photo: Bernadette Tuazon/AP
Mayor Mamdani is making public a trove of previously withheld city documents related to air quality and health concerns after the attack on the World Trade Center 25 years ago.
Happy Thursday in NYC, where all across the city, lunch boxes are being packed, new pencils are being sharpened and young hearts are pattering nervously against rib cages. For our hundreds of thousands of public school kids, it’s one of the most momentous days of the year: the first day of school.
For those of us who are not teachers, parents or students, today is just like any old Thursday: a couple of pizzeria owners pled guilty to bribing one of Mayor Adams’ former senior aides, Eric Ulrich; controversy continues to swirl around Mayor Mamdani’s plan to attend the 9/11 commemoration ceremony tomorrow; and, an e-bike battery caused a fire at a garbage dump in Sunset Park.
… with one notable exception. It’s National TV Dinner Day! A time to shut off your brain and stuff your face. So tonight, forget your troubles, microwave something beige and call it a national celebration. You’ve earned it.
Gov. Hochul, Mayor Mamdani and Public Schools Chancellor Samuels launched the city’s free 2-K program on the first day of public school.
A special naturalization ceremony for 50 citizenship candidates takes place on Friday as part of 25th anniversary ceremonies of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
BPL announced the opening of its new teen center at Central Library.
Comedians will compete in a basketball tournament to raise awareness for organ donation.
The Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy will host its second ever Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3.
Spend a weekend at the “Mortal Matters” program, a free, three-day event about death and the universe at Green-Wood Cemetery this month.
Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull Memorial event, including re-enactors, on Saturday, Sept. 19.
Brooklyn Org launches a new initiative, naming Dr. Christina Greer as its first visiting scholar.
The Mamdani administration is initiating reforms to the procurement policy and budget in NYC public schools.
A prisoner died almost a month after having a medical episode inside of Kings County Criminal Court at 120 Schermerhorn St.
An 18-year-old Williamsburg youth was shot and killed just a block from his home Wednesday night.
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Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Relic from a tragic day when passengers and crew members fought back: A log book recovered from the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., is put on temporary display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026.
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You can’t shield kids from scary news. Here’s what ‘Sesame Street’ and other children’s shows did after 9/11
The corner of Broadway and West 63rd Street in Manhattan is named for Sesame Street. Photo: Paige Polk/Mayoral Photography Office
On back-to-school night in 2005, I eagerly entered my youngest child’s first grade classroom. The walls were festooned with brightly colored responses to the prompt: “Draw something you remember.”
I scanned for my son’s picture and was shocked when I encountered his drawing: an airplane flying into New York’s World Trade Center.
“I saw the picture you drew up on the bulletin board,” I said to him later that night. “Do you really remember seeing planes flying into the twin towers?”
He looked me in the eyes and replied, “No, Mommy. But I do remember you crying.”
My son was not quite 2 years old on Sept. 11, 2001. As a mother, I despaired to learn that my own reaction to that day’s tragedies had stuck with him so viscerally. As a professor and researcher of children’s media, I shouldn’t have been surprised.
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Happy Birthday ballet dancer Misty Copeland!
On this day in 1869, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said, “Between fifty and sixty candidates for the position of firemen were examined this morning at headquarters. They were a superior class of men.”
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