Overview
- Ceremonies were held Friday at Ground Zero, the Pentagon and the Flight 93 memorial with Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Ground Zero and President Donald Trump at the Pentagon.
- Mamdani published more than 170,000 pages that city officials say show prolonged toxic air, including asbestos, after the attacks and that authorities knew about the risk without warning the public.
- Families and first responders reacted with anger and calls for investigations, and two former mayors, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, have come under scrutiny for their roles in the city’s early response.
- Ground Zero’s program added a seventh moment of silence to honor people who later died from exposure and an artistic display of 2,977 illuminated drones recreated the Twin Towers’ silhouette.
- Decades of medical monitoring link Lower Manhattan exposure to hundreds of cancers and other illnesses, and the new records could increase legal, health‑care and policy pressure to expand care and accountability.