Overview

• The library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division will preserve, digitize, and catalog the materials, with phased access in research centers beginning in 2027.
• The trove totals more than 1,200 hours, including roughly 500 hours from the week of the attacks and over 700 hours on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s planning and construction.
• More than 130 New Yorkers recorded the contemporaneous footage on consumer cameras, and most of it has never been made public.
• Curators say opening the collection will balance access with safeguards for privacy and exposure to violence, with online availability to follow curation.
• To mark the gift, NYPL will host a Sept. 11 screening of 7 Days in September and a public discussion with the filmmakers and historian Kenneth T. Jackson, moderated by Kurt Andersen.