The City Council continued its calls Tuesday for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to allocate $4 million in the city budget to carry out an investigation into what and when the city knew about how dangerous Lower Manhattan’s air quality was after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The council’s been asking for the money since it passed a law last year mandating a Department of Investigation (DOI) probe into City Hall over the matter. Advocates for 9/11 victims say they see funding this investigation as the only way to figure out how and why the city made the decision to tell the public that the air in Lower Manhattan immediately following the attacks was so safe that life could essentially go back to normal, and whether that messaging was in contradiction to internal environmental and public health information the city had.
