Start Here: Shuffled Page Gallery
Click on any image to jump to that page in the PDF file provided by NYC.gov (note that this is all 173,276 individual pages in jpeg format). The original data are paper documents that were printed and stored in doc boxes.
All of the data on this site was sourced from information provided at nyc.gov/sep11docs. The website provided has the documents available to view as scanned paper pages in PDF files.
note: OCR data and Box/Dept origin not sourced.
email me (wjl88 [at] cornell.edu) with any questions or data/web requests
All Document Pages Gallery (infinite scroll image gallery)
Randomly Shuffled Gallery View (great for discovery)
All Documents (list of PDF download links)
coming soon: All Documents (single .tar.gz archive)
DONE: All Pages (jpg image files of all individual pages
coming soon: Vision Language Model Analysis (TXT files)
Selected stats about the document dataset.
Scanned document files have a fixed format, 9-digit numbering system. Most of the numbers are not valid filenames for HTTP requests.
Full Plaintext File of all integer numbers that were valid filenames.
Full Plaintext File of all valid filenames not including the extension .pdf
Full Plaintext File of all valid filenames and page counts, sorted.
[NYC.gov] 9/11 Documents Portal
[Gothamist] NYC’s 9/11 document release could expand number of people receiving federal benefits