Mamdani: city officials knew air was unsafe after 9/11

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Tuesday announced the release of more than 170,000 pages of documents suggesting city officials knew air conditions following the 9/11 terrorist attacks were unsafe despite assurances otherwise. "People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air — and then when they began to contend with the symptoms of the illnesses that followed, the government that had not hesitated to send them into harm's way was nowhere to be found," he said at a news conference. The mayor, making the announcement ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks, said more people have now died from 9/11-related illnesses than from the attacks themselves and pledged to be transparent about what officials knew at the time. "This will be a vast resource with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from numerous city agencies," he said. "These are documents that show what the city knew about the air around Ground