Contact: Joanne Guilmette
Phone: 518/474-8730
Fax: 518/486-3696
E-Mail: jguilmet@mail.nysed.gov

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS/PHOTO ADVISORY

Albany, New York -- 1/2003

WHAT: A bent 10-ton steel column, which spanned floors 71-73 of the World Trade Center, will arrive on a flat bed truck at the New York State Museum for installation in phase two of the World Trade Center Rescue Recovery Response exhibition, scheduled to open by February 1. The column was from the south tower of the World Trade Center where Flight 11 hit the building several floors above on September 11, 2001. The first phase of the World Trade Center exhibition, which opened September 5th, is temporarily closed for the phase 2 installation.

WHEN: Thursday, January 9
Expected arrival time about 9 a.m.

WHERE: Madison Avenue, Albany in front of the New York State Museum

WHO: Museum Director Cliff Siegfried and museum staff will be at the scene available for interviews