New York City Council members gathered at Ground Zero Thursday morning to announce an investment in how future generations learn about the 9/11 attacks.
Leaders were outside the Oculus to detail what they described as a significant investment in 9/11 educational programming for students.
That $1 million in new funding is being rolled out in partnership with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
Following the event, Council Speaker Julie Menin marked 25 years since the attack with a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the nearly 3,000 people killed.
This comes as remembrance events are already underway across the city.
On Wednesday, 36 new names of those who died from 9/11-related illnesses were added to the FDNY’s World Trade Center Memorial Wall in Brooklyn.
And at Ladder 6 in Chinatown, firefighters reunited with the family of Josephine Harris, the survivor they carried down Stairwell B of the North Tower.
More events are planned for the coming days, including an art installation at St. Paul’s Chapel, which survived unscathed from the attack. There, 2,977 hand-folded paper cranes will be on display, representing every person killed on Sept. 11.
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