{"id":340937,"date":"2026-09-08T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340937\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:22:09","slug":"new-york-leaders-lied-about-toxic-air-after-9-11-mayor-zohran-mamdani-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340937\/","title":{"rendered":"New York leaders \u2018lied\u2019 about toxic air after 9\/11, Mayor Zohran Mamdani says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the city did not disclose all it knew about air toxicity after September 11.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The release comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks in 2001 that killed 2,977 people, in the US, mostly in the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More than 9,400 have died from illnesses linked to their exposure to the area in the years since, according to a federal medical monitoring programme.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThese are documents that show what the city knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability,\u201d the mayor told a news conference following the online release of 170,000 pages of documents on health concerns, air quality and the city\u2019s response to the attacks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The release is part of an agreement with 9\/11 Health Watch, a victims\u2019 advocacy group that had taken legal action to compel the city to make the documents public.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People visit the North Pool at the National 9\/11 Memorial and Museum in New York on Tuesday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c9e539ee-3ac5-40a6-aa50-e96be00f3b53_095d03e2.jpg\" title=\"People visit the North Pool at the National 9\/11 Memorial and Museum in New York on Tuesday. Photo: AFP\"\/>People visit the North Pool at the National 9\/11 Memorial and Museum in New York on Tuesday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFor 25 years, four different mayoral administrations kept from the public, the US Congress, and the City Council documents showing what the city actually knew about the danger of the toxic chemicals in Lower Manhattan and Western Brooklyn after the World Trade Centre collapse, even as city officials continued messaging to the public that the air was \u2018safe and acceptable\u2019,\u201d the group\u2019s director Benjamin Chevat said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98863,128002,100661,53833,359,12363,9,11,27403,10,4658,14738,8648,128003,28979,84724,82],"class_list":["post-340937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-9-11-health-watch","tag-benjamin-chevat","tag-congressman-jerry-nadler","tag-ground-zero","tag-lower-manhattan","tag-michael-bloomberg","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york-news","tag-pentagon","tag-rudy-giuliani","tag-september","tag-shanksville","tag-twin-towers","tag-world-trade-centre","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}