The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has dedicated a new memorial to the 88 employees killed in two attacks on the World Trade Center: the February 1993 bombing and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to ABC7 New York (WABC). Four workers died in the 1993 bombing and 84 were killed on 9/11, the agency said.
The Port Authority operated the original World Trade Center complex and lost dozens of its own personnel, along with thousands of other victims, when the towers fell in 2001. This memorial is a permanent tribute from the agency to its own workforce.
The February 1993 bombing: four workers remembered
Four Port Authority employees died on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center’s North Tower. The blast killed six people in total and injured more than a thousand others. For the Port Authority, losing four of its own workers was a loss the agency carried for eight years before the towers themselves came down.
The 1993 attack is often overshadowed in public memory by what came after. The new memorial names the four employees among the 88 honored, keeping their deaths part of the Port Authority’s own record rather than a footnote to 9/11.
The September 11, 2001 attacks: 84 employees lost
Eighty-four Port Authority employees were killed on September 11, 2001, when hijacked planes struck the Twin Towers, according to the agency’s tally cited by ABC7 New York. The Port Authority, which built and operated the World Trade Center complex, suffered one of the largest single-employer losses of life that day outside of the New York City Fire Department and Police Department.
Those 84 deaths make up most of the 88 names now on the new memorial. That count shows how heavily the attacks fell on the agency’s own staff, many of whom worked inside the towers or in facilities connected to the complex.
What the memorial looks like and where it stands
ABC7 New York’s report did not detail the memorial’s design, materials, or exact location within the World Trade Center site, but confirmed it was newly dedicated by the Port Authority to honor the 88 employees lost across the two attacks. It is a separate tribute from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which commemorates all victims of the 1993 and 2001 attacks.
By building its own memorial, the Port Authority is giving the losses within its workforce a specific, agency-level place of remembrance alongside the public memorials already at Ground Zero.
Timing of the dedication
The Port Authority marks the anniversary of the September 11 attacks each year, and the 2026 timing of this announcement places it close to the 25th anniversary period of the 2001 attacks. ABC7 New York’s report frames the dedication as part of the agency’s ongoing commemoration tied to both the 1993 bombing and the 9/11 attacks. The reporting available does not say why this particular timing was chosen.
The agency’s role at Ground Zero and the World Trade Center site
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey built and originally operated the World Trade Center complex, which made it both the site’s steward and, on September 11, 2001, one of the attacks’ largest institutional victims. Since then, the agency has stayed central to rebuilding and redeveloping the site, including its role alongside the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
That dual role, landlord and mourner, shapes how the Port Authority approaches commemoration. The new memorial adds an agency-specific layer of remembrance to a site already dense with public memorials, museums, and monuments to the victims of both attacks.
Reactions from Port Authority officials and victims’ families
ABC7 New York’s report did not include direct quotes from Port Authority officials or victims’ family members about the dedication. The available reporting confirms only that the memorial honors the 88 employees killed in the 1993 and 2001 attacks, without further detail on what was said at the ceremony.
For families of the four workers killed in 1993 and the 84 lost on 9/11, the memorial is a continued, formal acknowledgment from the agency that employed their relatives, separate from the citywide and national commemorations that have marked both anniversaries for years. The Port Authority has not announced further details about public access to the memorial or plans for future events tied to it.
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