NY State awards $500K to 9/11 Memorial & Museum

September 12, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

The Memorial Pools, showing names engraved on 3,900 granite panels framing the structure, have the largest man-made waterfalls in North America. Brooklyn Eagle photo by Francesca N. Tate

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LOWER MANHATTAN/ALBANY — THE 9/11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM in Lower Manhattan will receive $500,000 to support its programs chronicling the story of Sept. 11, 2001, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday during a commemoration of the tragedy. The 9/11 Museum, which opened at the Ground Zero site in 2014, houses a collection of monumental and authentic artifacts and offers educational programs about the 2001 attack as well as the Feb. 26, 1993, attack to schools, families and the general public, according to its website. The funds will help the Museum cover its operating expenses. The Memorial Museum had 2.7 million visitors during its inaugural year, 2014-15.

Hochul also ordered the illumination in blue Wednesday night of 15 state landmarks including, in Brooklyn or visible from Brooklyn: One World Trade Center and the Kosciuszko Bridge which connects the borough’s Greenpoint neighborhood with Queens, over Newtown Creek.

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