NYT: Documents show officials misled New Yorkers on 9/11 air quality

They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11.

FINALLY: NYC is releasing documents related to the misleading information provided to the public about air quality in the aftermath of 9/11. (More people have died from illnesses related to 9/11 than were killed on the day of the attacks.)

You know what “misled” means? That information was known and decisions were made to intentionally lead people away from it. It is an active, multi-step form of lying. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

🧵My family stopped through NYC (less than 3 miles from ground zero) 2 months after 9/11, & we wore N95s. Strangers were derisive, but it really seemed like common sense. Come to find out: Rep. Jerrold Nadler said he tried to convince Giuliani & Bloomberg "to release www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

In the harrowing months that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were repeatedly assured that the air around the fallen towers was safe to breathe. But 10 months later, health officials were still finding evidence of asbestos as much as half a mile away,

“More people are believed to have died from illnesses related to the attacks in the years afterward than on Sept. 11 itself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

I was living in downtown Manhattan on 9/11/01. For at least 6 weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center, I could smell a lingering odour of burning metal. 10 months later, health officials were still finding evidence of asbestos as much as half a mile away. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

From today's NYT: "The records seem to strengthen the notion that New Yorkers were instructed to return to the ground zero area before it was safe to do so, potentially exposing workers and residents to dangerous toxins." 7/ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

Well before nightfall in LA on 9/11, a core global occupational & environmental medicine discussion list had vehemently warned of the obvious, deadly air quality dangers from WTC dust still shrouding NYC. NYC/State & USG knew the same. Giuliani's “back to normal” push caused avoidable mass death.

No shit. We knew that then, we said that then, and Christie Todd Whitman & Rudy Fucking Giuliani kept trying to tell everyone otherwise. Am I mad? You can bet on it. My husband’s friends were sent down for cleanup, he himself built the Memorial. Yes, I’m still angry www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

Seems like Giuliani is the one who should skip the 9/11 memorial. "A review of news articles and interview transcripts in the days and weeks following Sept. 11 show that Mr. Giuliani continued to vouch for the safety of the air quality."

“They knew about the air quality and they essentially did nothing about it. I suspect that all they cared about was getting Wall Street reopened, and they didn’t give a damn about the health of the people down there.” -Rep Jerrold Nadler www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

For 25 years, many New Yorkers have lived with these health consequences and fought for the truth about what City govt knew. Now, after setting aside $34 million in the budget to review millions of records, the Mamdani admin will tomorrow release 170K+ pages of them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality. New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around World Trade Center site in months after Sept. 11 attacks. (Free gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

For the 25th anniversary of 9/11, CNN journalist Peter Bergen is donating a 150,000-page trove of documents and artifacts on al-Qaeda to Georgetown University. Take a look inside the archive: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...