NEW ENTRANCE TO FAMILY TRAILER

GATE 4, VESEY & CHURCH STREETS

On Friday, April 11 at 11:59pm, the Church Street entrance to the World Trade Center PATH station will be closed. There will be no access to Gate 10.

The new entrance to the WTC family trailer will be through Gate 4 at Vesey and Church Streets.
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For All Press Inquiries, Please Contact:

Ben Urizar
212-422-3520 Ext: 141
burizar@911families.org

Tribute WTC Visitor Center Family Submissions
The Tribute Gallery where loved ones will be included will be a rotating exhibition that we hope will include all loved ones over the next three years. The Tribute Center is intended to be an interim visitors’ center until the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum are open.

If you are an immediate family member and did not receive the request and would like to send photos, please complete the web registration form by clicking on the top left corner of this screen where it says “Become a September 11th Families’ Association Member Now!” In the Question and Comments box at the bottom of the form indicate you are an immediate family member and would like to receive the photo submission form for Tribute. Please complete the form fully, including loved ones’ information so we are able to send you the appropriate information. The form is simply a registration to receive information. If you do not want to receive other information from the Association, please indicate this in the comment box. The Association maintains strict confidentiality of all family information. Please note we are working very hard in a small space to represent all loved ones and may reserve multiple submissions for inclusion at a later date. We are working to build the Tribute Center together with families and appreciate the support, contributions and submissions all families have made to make the Center a special place for visitors. The response we have received thus far has been beautifully thoughtful and touching. We know that your care and generosity in sharing these memories with the world will help to ensure that those we lost on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 will never be forgotten.

TRIBUTE WTC VISITOR CENTER
The Tribute WTC Visitor Center is a visitor and learning center that is opening September 2006. Located at 120 Liberty Street in New York across the street from the World Trade Center site, Tribute is a place where visitors can learn about the events of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001. Through the voices of many individuals in the exhibitions and programs, Tribute will inform, educate and provide a place for reflection.

The mission of the Tribute Center project is to create an immersive interaction for visitors who flock to the World Trade Center site to try and find a connection between themselves and the experience. People are motivated to come to the site for different reasons. There are as many reasons as there are people who come. The motivations include: to pay their respects, to see the devastation first hand, to pay homage to the rescue workers, survivors and the families, to relive the event, to remember a past visit, to witness history and some come to finally lay it to rest and place it behind them. Some are coming to walk the site alone, some are thirsty for information. All have some things in common: a motivation, an expectation (though they may all be different), and a will to get there.

The Tribute Center grew out of the need to respond to the desire of people to come to the site. It grew out of the desire of families and those closely affected by 9/11 to share the story of the people, the day, the actions, the heroism, the courage, the loss, and the grief. It came from a realization that history is being written every day and in order to share the individual stories with people who have come seeking enlightenment and personal contact there as a need to create an organization and a physical point of origin so that the needs of those coming to learn could be aligned with the need of those willing to share.

The Tribute Center is a project of the September 11th Families Association. The Association realized the need to provide information to the thousands of visitors who gather at the World Trade Center site each day. Tribute will serve as a place to welcome visitors until the World Trade Center Memorial is completed in 2009.

RED CROSS ENDS SOME 9/11 AID PROGRAMS
The American Red Cross, which has taken in more than $1 billion in Sept. 11 donations, is ending some programs that have given $178 million primarily to victims' relatives before it phases out most of its Sept. 11 programs next year, a spokesman said.

"This is part of our exit strategy of moving services into the communities where people directly affected by 9/11 live and work," Red Cross spokesman Jeffrey Hon said.

The Red Cross stopped taking applications on Dec. 30 for some of the programs that it directly administered, and by the end of 2007 it is expected to have transferred its funds to some of the more than 100 nonprofits that provide counseling, health and educational services. The Red Cross is one of the largest charities to provide help to families, rescue workers and residents affected by the 2001 terrorist attacks. The programs being discontinued by the Red Cross include the Supplemental Gift program, which gave $55,000 payments to each of the more than 3,000 estates of Sept. 11 victims and to some of the most severely injured. The agency also gave $9.5 million to more than 800 people who were disabled or demonstrated financial difficulty and $2.6 million to social work services for hundreds of people.

For more information, please visit www.redcross.org/september11/help.

A view of the World Trade Center site.