Days after Rudy Giuliani said Zohran Mamdani should stay away from New York’s 9/11 commemoration, the city’s first Muslim mayor released more than 170,000 pages of records that cast fresh scrutiny on what officials knew about toxic air in the aftermath of the attacks — including during Giuliani’s administration.
The documents, released Tuesday ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, detail health concerns, air quality around Ground Zero and the city’s response after the World Trade Center towers collapsed.
Their release followed a settlement with 9/11 Health Watch, an advocacy group that had pursued legal action to obtain records that remained out of public view for years.
“These 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,” Mamdani said.
Some of the records concern decisions made while Giuliani was mayor, including an internal memo sent to his deputy mayor outlining potential legal liability arising from hazardous air exposure and unsafe working conditions after the attacks.
