Brookfield Office Properties plans to reclaim a private viewing room for family of September 11 victims and use it for commercial space.
Next month, the September 11 Family Room will shutter its 20th-floor space at One Liberty Plaza, a 2.3 million-square-foot Lower Manhattan tower. The closing coincides with the opening of National September 11 Memorial Museum on May 21. More.
Dan Moynihan said the deafness in his right ear began after spending more than a month clearing debris from Ground Zero following the destruction of the World Trade Towers in 2001.
Moynihan, a volunteer firefighter for nearly 20 years in Freeport, would be operated on in March 2012 to remove an acoustic neuroma, a noncancerous tumor, in his right ear that effects the nerve that connects the ear to the brain. More.
Interfaith leaders object to a film slated to be part of an exhibit in the National September 11 Memorial Museum.
"The Rise of Al Qaeda," narrated by NBC's Brian Williams, is supposed to provide a brief history of the terrorist group. More.
A WAVE of Wall Street stockbrokers and traders are coming down with cancers blamed on the toxic dust and smoke of 9/11. They’re joining ill Ground Zero first-responders in seeking payments from the $US2.7 billion ($2.9 billion) federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
Of 622 cancer claims approved so far, the fund has awarded $15.5 million to 39 victims, a spokeswoman told The Post. More.
More than half of the claims submitted to the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund remain incomplete, the result of a process that advocates and lawyers say had been too labor-intensive.
The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has issued a report it claims offers evidence that action – and inaction – by government officials contributed to the toll of death and disease. More.
Two weeks ago, a pair of F.B.I. agents appeared unannounced at the door of a member of the defense team for one of the men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As a contractor working with the defense team at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the man was bound by the same confidentiality rules as a lawyer. But the agents wanted to talk. More.
An effort to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and four co-defendants veered off track again Thursday as a pretrial hearing ended with new obstacles that threaten to further derail the case before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay.