The MEMO Blog

Norwegian-born artist Torild Stray’s charcoal drawing New York Metamorphosis was officially dedicated in the 9/11 Memorial Museum on March 5 at a ceremony attended by Stray and the Norwegian Consul General in New York Harriet E. Berg.

A group of 55 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the school in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed by a gunman on Feb. 14, 2018, visited the 9/11 Memorial & Museum yesterday morning.

From the outset, elevators functioned as the vital circulatory system of the World Trade Center and played a significant role in the efficient functioning of these quarter-mile high workplaces.

Born on the small Caribbean island of Montserrat, Keithroy Marcellus Maynard moved to New York City when he was 13.

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 bombing with a moment of silence, the tolling of a bell and the reading of the names of the six victims of the first terror attack at the site.

For artist Cynthia Mailman, winning a public art competition to paint a 54-foot-long mural ringing the walls of the World Trade Center PATH train terminal was providential.

On the morning of Feb. 26, 1993, about 50,000 people were in the World Trade Center complex, with more than 40,000 people in the Twin Towers.

After the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, President Bill Clinton pledged full federal support for the investigation, saying in his weekly radio address, “Working together, we’ll find out who was involved and why this happened.”

On Feb. 26, 1993, Port Authority employee Philip Caffrey was at his desk on the 69th floor of the North Tower when he heard a loud explosion and felt the building sway.

Monica Smith worked at the World Trade Center as a mechanical unit secretary for the Port Authority.