9/11 News Items (1/5/26)
Arnold Korotkin
Below are summaries with URLs to news articles on the effort to ensure that the World Trade Center Health Program is fully funded. An archive of past articles year by year can by found on the Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Inc. website here.
December 29, 2025 — 911 Health Watch — Through its Public Records Access Officer, Outgoing Adams Administration Orders Document Response by February 27, Leaving Issue to Mayor-Elect Mamdani
Mayor-elect Mamdani should commit his administration to full cooperation with the City Council-ordered DOI investigation of the 9/11 documents.
December 29, 2025 — NY Daily News — Open the WTC files: Zohran Mamdani must release all World Trade Center records the city holds
Twenty five years of a coverup over what city officials knew of the health hazards at Ground Zero and when they knew it is long enough.
December 26, 2025 — Newsday — What World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program study found about PTSD in 9/11 first responders
The old, yet lingering stigmas surrounding mental health treatment among first responders delayed Klein — a retired detective specialist with the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit — and others from receiving the help they needed.
December 22, 2025 — Rep. Andrew Garbarino — Garbarino Highlights 2025 Accomplishments: Delivering Results for Long Island
Protecting 9/11 first responders and survivors remained a top priority throughout the year. Congressman Garbarino continued to work to fully fund and safeguard the World Trade Center Health Program.
December 18, 2025 — Stony Brook University — Imaging Study Reveals Brain Changes in WTC Responders With Chronic PTSD
A new brain imaging study led by researchers at Stony Brook University has uncovered measurable physical changes in the brain structures of WTC responders who have chronic PTSD.
December 17, 2025 — News-Medical.net — Brain structural changes linked to chronic PTSD in World Trade Center responders
New research among World Trade Center (WTC) responders with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has uncovered measurable physical changes in their brain structure.
December 16, 2025 — The Chief — Mayor delays release of documents on toxic WTC air for 10th time
Under its current timeline, the city now has until March of next year to produce documents pertaining to the FOIL request.
December 16, 2025 — Business Matters — Sickened but Still Standing: Paul Eliacin’s Ground Zero Story 25 Years After 9/11
Three days after the September 11, 2001, attack, Paul wasn’t watching the tragedy unfold from a TV screen. He was there at Ground Zero as a First Responder. With his camera in hand.
December 15, 2025 — Spectrum News NY1 — Adams pushes release of 9/11 air quality documents to Mamdani
A records request more than two years old about the city’s response to the air quality concerns after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will not be answered by Mayor Eric Adams, who was an NYPD lieutenant at the time.
December 14, 2025 — NY Daily News — 9/11 advocates call on NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani to release docs on Ground Zero toxins
Facing a 10th postponement on releasing the records from the Adams administration, members of 9/11 Health Watch and attorneys for survivors are hoping Mamdani will finally put out the documents when he takes office.
December 12, 2025 — Spectrum News NY1 — Study finds PTSD may accelerate brain aging among WTC responders
A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has found that post-traumatic stress disorder may be linked to accelerated brain aging among World Trade Center responders.
December 13, 2025 — CNN — He searched Ground Zero for his son for six months. 24 years later, 9/11 killed him too
Riches’ search for his son ended in March 2002, when Jimmy Jr.’s crushed helmet, bearing the Ladder 114 number,was found in the rubble of where the North Tower once stood.
December 11, 2025 — Rockland/Westchester Journal News — 9/11 responder and Blauvelt firefighter Pieter Grosbeck dies at 63
More than 400 members of the New York City Fire Department have died from WTC-related illnesses as of September 2025, according to the FDNY Foundation. The department lost 343 firefighters on Sept. 11, 2001 in the terrorist attacks.
December 8, 2025 — CBS News New York — PTSD possibly linked to accelerated brain aging in 9/11 first responders
Mount Sinai researchers used artificial intelligence and more than 11,000 brain scans to estimate each participant’s “brain age” in the study.
December 8, 2025 — Mount Sinai — Mount Sinai Study Finds PTSD May Accelerate Brain Aging in 9/11 Responders
The team used BrainAgeNeXt, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence model trained on more than 11,000 MRI scans, to estimate each participant’s “brain age.” They found that WTC responders with PTSD had brains that appeared significantly older than their chronological age compared to those without PTSD.
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