This free event will highlight the Museum’s education programs, including student tours and workshops for grades 3–12, a high-school afterschool program and professional development workshops.Read more
Left: Keithroy Marcellus Maynard dressed in bunker gear. Right: Maynard in his FDNY dress uniform. Photos courtesy of the Voices of September 11th Living Memorial Project.
Keithroy Maynard followed his father’s footsteps to join the Vulcan Society, the FDNY’s organization of black firefighters.Read more
Flowers are placed on the bronze parapets during the 25th anniversary commemoration. Photo by Monika Graff
The families of victims, survivors, downtown residents and city and state officials gathered at the 9/11 Memorial plaza on Monday to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center attack.Read more
The names of the six victims in the Feb. 26, 1993, World Trade Center bombing inscribed in bronze on the 9/11 Memorial. Photo by Amy Dreher.
At 12:18 p.m. on Feb. 26, 1993, an explosion ripped through the B-2 level of the belowground parking garage, opening a crater 150-feet wide and several stories deep underneath the North Tower. People on the top floors of the towers and in surrounding buildings felt the force of the explosion.Read more
A model of the damaged World Trade Center parking garage, which is currently on display in Foundation Hall at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Photo by Monika Graff, 9/11 Memorial.
During his weekly radio address, President Bill Clinton pledged full federal support for the investigation, stating that, “Working together, we’ll find out who was involved and why this happened.”Read more
Photograph of Stephen Knapp on the rooftop of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Gift of Knapp family in memory of husband and father, Stephen A. Knapp.
On Feb. 26, 1993, Port Authority employee and family man Stephen Knapp was on his lunch break when a bomb went off in the parking garage.Read more
