9/11 25th anniversary live updates: Families read victims’ names at Ground Zero, more
Twenty-five years later, we never forget.
Americans in New York City and across the nation are gathering Friday to remember the 2,977 people killed and thousands more injured in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Families of victims killed when hijackers crashed a pair of planes into the Twin Towers will gather at the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero to read their names aloud, as is tradition at the annual commemoration ceremony, beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET., followed by a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. — the exact time American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower.
Later, President Trump will deliver remarks at the Pentagon.
And the Yankees and Mets will kick off the first of their three-game Subway Series at 6:30 p.m. in the Bronx with special tributes honoring 9/11 first responders and those lost in the attacks that changed America forever.
Follow The Post’s live updates from memorials at Ground Zero and beyond on the 25th anniversary of 9/11:
25 years after 9/11, the World Trade Center’s last tower finally rises
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Mary Jacob
Larry Silverstein was 70 years old when he took title to the Twin Towers, posing for photos with a giant set of cardboard keys. He figured he had finally arrived — and he could start thinking about retirement. Seven weeks later, on Sept. 11, 2001, his optimistic site became one of tragedy.
Now 95, Silverstein still goes to his office every day at 7 World Trade Center, the first tower his company rebuilt, and watches the final piece of his 25-year project rise a few blocks away.
“New York has always been a city that refuses to walk away from a challenge,” Silverstein told The Post. “After 9/11, I made a promise to New Yorkers that we would rebuild the World Trade Center, commemorate those we lost [and] restore commerce to Lower Manhattan.”
Ground broke in July on 2 World Trade Center, a 55-story, nearly 2-million-square-foot tower at 200 Greenwich Street that will become American Express’s new global headquarters.
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From New York to California — 25 meaningful memorials to 9/11
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Marissa Matozzo
Twenty-five years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the memory of that terrible day lives on in thousands of places across the country — from grand national memorials to quiet neighborhood tributes.
Some sit where the planes fell. Others stand hundreds or even thousands of miles away, built by communities determined to remember the people they lost and the first responders who answered the call.
The memorials may be scattered from New York to Arizona to Kansas, but Sal Lifrieri, a former NYPD detective who served as director of New York City’s Office of Emergency Management during the 9/11 attacks, said the distance doesn’t make the tragedy any less personal.
“You can’t go anywhere in the world without coming in contact or knowing someone that was affected — had a family member, relative or friend — that was touched by 9/11,” Lifrieri told The Post.
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‘I relive 9/11 every single day,’ hero custodian William Rodriguez, the last man out of WTC’s North Tower, says
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Chris Nesi
William Rodriguez never took a sick day in his nearly 20 years as a custodian at the North Tower of the World Trade Center. But he seriously considered it on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
“It was so beautiful outside, I thought, ‘I’m just gonna stay home and hang out,’” he told The Post. “I called my supervisor and said I wasn’t going to work.”
But his boss begged him to come in — a decision that would change the course of his life.
Rodriguez arrived at 8:30 that morning, too late for the free breakfast his friends working at Windows on the World on the 106th floor usually gave him on the sly. Instead, he went directly to the B1 basement.
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Michael Bloomberg: Lower Manhattan must go on living, even as we honor those lost on 9/11 — otherwise, terror triumphs
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Michael Bloomberg
For some, 9/11/2001 is distant history. But for many families that lost a loved one, 9/11 is — even now, 25 years later — as present and immediate as yesterday.
Early that morning, I walked to my polling place to vote in New York City’s mayoral primary. Shortly afterward, we heard the news: a small plane had struck the World Trade Center. When we saw the size of the gash on television, my heart sank: I knew it couldn’t have been a small plane. And then the second plane hit.
Three Bloomberg LP employees — Peter Alderman, Bill Kelly and Paul Ortiz — were at a
customer conference at Windows on the World in the North Tower. They never made it home to their families. Neither did nearly 3,000 others.
The scale of the loss and depth of the grief our city suffered remains hard to put into words, but it is seared into our hearts. And it is not just the sadness we remember.
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Everything to know about the 9/11 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero
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Katherine Donlevy
Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks — and once again the National September 11 Memorial & Museum will honor the 2,977 people who were killed in the tragedy with its annual commemoration ceremony.
The solemn event will take place on the hallowed ground where the Twin Towers once stood.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum will livestream the ceremony on its website beginning at 8:40 a.m.
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The ceremony itself at the reflecting pools will be closed to the public.
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