Mamdani is reportedly set to address the release of the pages on Tuesday. The documents look into the city's investigation into air quality in Lower Manhattan following the attacks on the World Trade Center. In June, the mayor allocated $34.2 million of the city’s $126-billion budget for the 2027 fiscal year to create a public portal of these documents.
The New York Times, which had early access to the documents and also reported that the first batch will be released Tuesday, said the trove includes “air quality reports, contamination records, and correspondence among city officials.” Some of the pages were among the documents reportedly found in 68 boxes stashed in a city office, which advocates argue had been kept away from the public for years.
A spokesperson for the mayor told NY1 in July that the portal is expected to host millions of documents, and the mayor’s office has said that additional documents will be added on a rolling basis.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, but more people are believed to have been killed by diseases related to the attack. The World Trade Center Health Program, which provides no-cost monitoring and treatment for covered 9/11-related health conditions, said thousands continue to be diagnosed with ailments resulting from their exposure to dust, smoke, debris, and the traumatic events.
The documents the Times obtained reportedly included records related to 15 John Street, near the collapsed World Trade Center, which purportedly detected asbestos—at times exceeding acceptable limits—about a year after the attack.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that exposure to these contaminants increases the risk of developing health conditions, such as illnesses concerning the airways and digestive systems. The CDC added that after the attacks, around 400,000 people were exposed to these contaminants and other factors that increased their risk for such conditions.
Why Mamdani is under pressure
In July, 9/11 widower Giovanni Galante began a petition against Mamdani’s attendance, citing concerns over “Mamdani's public positions, associations, and responses to rhetoric that many perceive as hostile.” The petition cites Mamdani’s refusal to condemn those who say “globalize the intifada” as one of the issues. The petition also references Mamdani’s appointment of Ramzi Kassem, who worked for the Biden Administration, as chief counsel to the mayor. Kassem served as legal counsel for Ahmed al-Darbi, who plead guilty to charges stemming from a 2002 al-Qaeda tanker bombing plot and who is the brother-in-law of one of the hijackers in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
Rudy Giuliani, who was the mayor of New York in 2001, told right-leaning news organization Newsmax that Mamdani should skip the event. “Having lost friends there and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he's coming,” Giuliani said. The former mayor also attacked Mamdani’s religion, Islam, and baselessly suggested the mayor was supportive of Muslim extremist ideology.
Before Giuliani’s comments, Mamdani signed city executive orders designating Sept. 11 a New York-wide "Day of Remembrance and Service" and updating emergency preparedness procedures. But the signing caught the ire of some critics after Mamdani handed the 9/11 ceremonial pen to Kassem.
“I’m proud to be the mayor of this city,” Mamdani said. “I love this city. I love this country. And what I want this week to be a focus on is on the families whose loved ones were stolen from them 25 years ago in the horrific act of terror of September 11th, and a focus also on the first responders who gave everything they could to this city and to the people who came together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers.”
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