Port Authority Installs New WTC Memorial as
25th Anniversary of 9/11 Attack Nears
NEW YORK—In recognition of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the World Trade Center Memorial Fund installed a new memorial at the World Trade Center campus. The memorial honors the nearly 90 agency employees who perished in both the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Twin Towers, as well as those who have been sickened or died from illnesses as a result of working on post-9/11 recovery efforts.
The employee memorial installed on Aug. 28 is adjacent to the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at Liberty Park on the World Trade Center campus, providing a quiet space for remembrance near the agency’s headquarters at 4 World Trade Center. The design of the memorial is inspired by a previous memorial honoring the victims of the February 1993 bombing located on Austin J. Tobin Plaza between the Twin Towers that was destroyed on 9/11 when the towers fell. It also incorporates the likeness of the Twin Towers that had been created by a Port Authority employee at one of the agency’s sign shops.
The stainless-steel Twin Towers stand at 8 feet tall, the front of which is embossed with a porcelain enamel-coated steel American flag, atop a 2-foot-tall base of black granite inscribed with the names of the 84 employees who died on 9/11. A ring of rose granite inspired by the destroyed 1993 memorial wraps around the black granite base, inscribed with the names of the employees who perished in the 1993 bombing.
“Our agency’s home at 4 World Trade Center faces Liberty Park, so it is fitting to have a space nearby for our Port Authority family to remember their fallen colleagues and for their loved ones to pay their respects,” said Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole. “This year we mark 25 years since that terrible day in 2001, though we have been grieving since the first attack in 1993. Each tragedy lives on in the members of our Port Authority family who survived both attacks and through the memories of colleagues who are still with us and pay tribute to their spirit and their dedication to this agency.”
On Sept. 11, 2001, 84 Port Authority employees died, including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) as well as 13 members of the World Trade Center’s civilian staff who have been recognized as first responders for their work as rescuers during the 9/11 attacks using their deep knowledge of the site.
At 12:18 p.m. on Feb. 26, 1993, six people, including four Port Authority employees, and an unborn child died in a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. The four employees were on their lunch breaks in the complex’s basement at the time when terrorists drove a truck into the subterranean parking garage of the Twin Towers and detonated a bomb. One employee was a day from starting her maternity leave.
Published: September 2, 2026.