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Lisa-Jayne Lewis reached Ground Zero in late February of 2002. She arrived more than five months after the attack on the World Trade Center, even as rescue workers were still searching for victims in the debris of the Trade Towers. She was 24 years old, a youth pastor with the Salvation Army in Boston, Massachusetts, […]

After the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and in the weeks and months that followed, more than half a million people were exposed to Ground Zero toxins in Lower Manhattan below Canal Street. Despite initial claims that the air was safe to breathe, all of these survivors are now […]

Barasch & McGarry released the following statement from Managing Partner Michael Barasch on reports that Congress could partially fund the free World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program deficit: “As each day the number of 9/11 responders and survivors with cancer or respiratory illness continues to increase, we need to fully fund the World Trade Center […]

August 1 is World Lung Cancer Day. If you were there as a first responder or you worked, lived, or studied in Lower Manhattan on or after 9/11, you have a higher risk of developing many respiratory illnesses and 69 different types of cancer resulting from exposure to Ground Zero toxins, including lung cancer. Within […]

There were dozens of schools in the Ground Zero exposure zone on and after 9/11, from Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park City to Murry Bergtraum High School on the Lower East Side. In addition, there were other educational institutions, including Pace University, New York Law School, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Tragically, […]

Located at 42 Trinity Place in Lower Manhattan, Syms provided affordable yet stylish clothing to its customers for generations. Unfortunately, workers and managers at this Syms retail store were only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001 and in the eight months that followed – exposed to Ground […]