NYC must produce key WTC 9/11 records and do it now
It was 20 years ago this month when we started writing about how the toxic fallout from the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center by Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists was sickening and killing people. Then the politicians were named Bloomberg, Pataki and Bush. The politicians’ names have changed, but not the importance of getting to the bottom of what happened with the health catastrophe.
It’s now less than two months until the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and Mayor Mamdani and the man running the city’s Law Department, Corporation Counsel Steve Banks, are saying all the right things, but city lawyers are still fighting disclosure in court and violating the state Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
On June 30, Mamdani said in the City Hall rotunda: “As we prepare to mark 25 years since the horrific Sept. 11 terror attacks, we are committing more than $34 million to........
