New York City is unlikely to face lawsuits based on the information in newly released documents about what the city knew and hid about Lower Manhattan’s dangerous air quality in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attack, lawyers who have been handling 9/11-related claims for decades told amNewYork.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced his administration would be settling years of litigation with advocacy group 9/11 Health Watch by releasing 170,000 documents, city records and emails which show the city knew the air quality in Lower Manhattan after 9/11 was dangerous and downplayed the risk to get people back to work and school quickly, information the advocates had sued the city over its previous refusal to turn over. The city will release hundreds of thousands of more documents in the coming months.
