The south tower of the World Trade Center bursts into flames after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175 in New York on this September 11, 2001 photograph
Vice President J.D. Vance was anticipated to attend memorial occasions at Ground Zero in Manhattan the place the World Trade Center’s twin towers have been destroyed in coordinated assaults that additionally noticed a jetliner crashed into the nerve middle of American army energy, the Pentagon in Washington.
Another jet, Flight 93, crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside when passengers overran the hijacker and took management of the plane.
This yr’s gathering takes place towards a backdrop of sharp political division each within the metropolis and nationally.
U.S. nationwide flags and flowers are positioned on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum reflecting pool forward of the twenty fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 assaults on the World Trade Center, within the Manhattan borough of New York City, on September 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters
New York is within the grip of an unprecedented mayoral election marketing campaign through which socialist Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani is going through off towards former governor Andrew Cuomo and sitting mayor Eric Adams.
New Yorkers go to the polls on November 4.
It was unclear which of the mayoral candidates would attend the ceremony that’s at all times attended by the sitting mayor in addition to group leaders.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked Mamdani, a Muslim and naturalized US citizen, calling him a “communist lunatic,” whereas one Republican lawmaker has referred to as for the race’s frontrunner to be deported.
Mamdani holds a 22 level lead within the race, in accordance with the most recent polling from The New York Times and Siena.
“It was this horrific day that was additionally for a lot of New Yorkers the second at which they have been marked an ‘different,’” Mamdani informed The Times, describing the surge in Islamophobic assaults that adopted 9/11.
It was unclear if Mr. Trump would attend New York’s commemorative occasions as he has in years previous.
The United States has confronted a rash of political violence in latest months, with the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk following the focused killing of a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and the firebombing of a Democratic governor’s residence.
New York will mark a citywide second of silence at 8:46 a.m. (1246 GMT), the time that hijacked Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Places of worship throughout town will sound their bells to mark the affect as households of the victims learn the names of these killed at floor zero.
The official demise toll was 2,977 together with the passengers and crew of the 4 hijacked planes, victims within the twin towers, firefighters, and personnel on the Pentagon. The demise toll excludes the 19 al-Qaeda hijackers
Published – September 11, 2025 08:13 am IST
