The MEMO Blog

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has many reasons to recognize the Alliance for Downtown New York, or ADNY, as the April 2011 Spotlight Business. The ADNY recently joined Signs of Support and made a contribution on behalf of its membership

As first reported by DNAinfo's Julie Shapiro, the 9/11 Memorial is planning for a visitors plaza to be constructed on the site where the former Deutsche Bank building once stood.Updated:  The New York Daily News describes the street level plaza as having

Oral history recordings are usually long, detailed accounts. Lately, the sessions have resulted in only a few words – three or four words to be exact.That’s because a team of oral historians and other museum staff are having the reading of the names of Se

On April 28, come listen to Maajid Nawaz, an ex-member of an Islamist extremist group, detail his personal experience with the radicalization process, and explain how important it is for free societies to challenge erroneous narratives.RSVP>> now f

A 9/11 nonprofit relief group is returning to Haiti.In a few days,  H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 will travel back to the island to finish "50 homes in five days," said Bill Keegan, the president of H.E.A.R.T. 9/11, the disaster relief group. He told The MEMO that a te

Staff photographer Amy Dreher snaps a lot of pictures at the World Trade Center site, documenting the construction progress of the 9/11 Memorial. Amy also trains her lens on the smaller pieces that may be overlooked with a project of this magnitude. Throu

In 170 days, the 9/11 Memorial opens to Sept. 11 victims' families on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Photographer Joe Woolhead has snapped hundreds of pictures of the reconstruction at the World Trade Center site over the years.Here's a picture he t

San Francisco firefighter Greg Collaco is back to raise awareness for the America Lung Association. Each year, the association holds a “vertical road race” up 52 floors of San Francisco’s tallest “climbable” building.  This year, Collaco will captain the

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote could not be more appropriate when it comes to 13-year-old Patrick Briscoe’s recent penny-fundraising campaign.A seventh-grade student of Newtown, Conn., Briscoe has taken it upon himself

 Alan Yamamoto is the latest business owner to take part in the Signs of Support campaign. While the campaign began in New York City, it has expanded to businesses like Yamamoto's that is 3,000 miles away.Located near Seattle, Yamamoto manages No Bul