Press Release Article

MEDIA ADVISORY - PORT AUTHORITY TO HOLD REMEMBRANCE SERVICE ON SEPTEMBER 11

Date: Aug 11, 2006
Press Release Number: 53-2006

The Port Authority will hold an Interfaith Remembrance Service at St. Peter’s Church, Barclay and Church streets in Lower Manhattan, at 2 p.m. on Monday, September 11. The service will honor the 84 Port Authority employees who were killed on September 11, 2001, in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

New York Governor George E. Pataki, New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have been invited to attend the ceremony.

Media wishing to cover the service should bring photo identification as well as media credentials, and report to the church entrance on Barclay Street.

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Contact: John McCarthy
Tony Ciavolella
Port Authority
212 435-7777