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NY Mayor releases 9/11 toxic air documents, alleging cover-up

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has released over 170,000 pages of documents detailing the city's knowledge of toxic air quality around Ground Zero following the September 11 attacks. These files reveal that city officials withheld information about the dangers of toxic chemicals in Lower Manhattan and Western Brooklyn, despite publicly assuring residents that the air was safe. The release, prompted by a legal agreement with the 9/11 Health Watch advocacy group, aims to shed light on what city leaders knew and when they knew it, particularly as the 25th anniversary of the attacks approaches. AI

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NY Mayor releases 9/11 toxic air documents, alleging cover-up

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agence France-Presse ·

    New York leaders ‘lied’ about toxic air after 9/11, Mayor Zohran Mamdani says

    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. The release comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks in 2001 that killed 2,977 people, i…

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