Memorabilia from the 2004 dedication of the Staten Island Postcards memorial sculpture for the victims of the 2001 World Trade Center attack
Description
Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro and former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani at the dedication of the Postcards Memorial. More than 3,000 friends and relatives gathered at the memorial site to honor the Staten Island victims of the World Trade Center (WTC) attack on September 11, 2001. The accession consists of buttons, cards, coins, letters, mass cards, photographs, rosary beads, and other related items left at the memorial site on the dedication day. The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation gathered the large volume of flowers from the site to be mulched and returned to the planters surrounding the memorial. The Archives accepted the memorabilia from the dedication because it was a formal mayoral event. Future memorabilia left at the site will be the responsibility of the memorial's maintainers, which include a group of relatives of the 271 borough residents and former Staten Islanders killed at the World Trade Center.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Dates
2004 September 11
Record Groups
Source
- New York (N.Y.). Office of the Mayor (Organization)
Creator
- New York (N.Y.). Office of the Mayor (Organization)
- Bloomberg, Michael (Person)
- New York (N.Y.). Mayor’s Office of Special Projects and Community Events (Organization)
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