# New York City releases documents on air quality after 9/11

https://mins.news/en/item/49793

- BBC News, 2026-09-08 13:35 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdvyk3pm27o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> New York City has released previously unseen documents indicating officials were concerned about toxic air after the World Trade Center collapsed while reassuring the public that Ground Zero was safe. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the records show what the city knew, when it knew it and how it acted, with hundreds of thousands more pages due to be published.

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