New York City released about 170,000 pages of documents related to post-9/11 air quality and health risks on Tuesday — a trove of paperwork within which some notes suggest city officials knew of the potential environmental dangers and legal exposure in the fairly early aftermath of the terror attacks.

One undated internal document — a letter to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s deputy mayor, Robert Harding — listed various potential grounds for lawsuits against the city, including health advisories that caused people to return to the area too soon, causing toxic exposure, rescue workers being provided with faulty equipment, and police failing to secure businesses from looters.

Another memo early in the Michael Bloomberg administration, five months after 9/11, said the city was “leaving itself open to a barrage of lawsuits. At the least, we should discontinue telling people to clean their apartments with wet mops and rags.” The note added that the city should ask the federal government for cleanup funds.

NYC Corporation Counsel Steven Banks said that the city’s Department of Investigation is now investigating what city officials knew and when they knew it, as well as why information appears to have been withheld. Meanwhile, city officials continue to comb through millions of additional pages of documents they say the federal World Trade Center insurer, WTC Captive Insurance Co., had in its possession.

Musician, band leader George Corradino has died
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A driveway in front of a vacant seaside Malibu home collapsed after steady rainfall and high surf on the Los Angeles County coast.⁠
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Utility crews and department of building and safety personnel responded to the location in the 31000 block of Sea Level Drive after the collapse damaged a gas main.

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Channel 4 worker found dead in sea 110 miles from home
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Crews respond to hazmat after toxic fumes spewed from tank in la Habra, California.

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Nicolas Cage's Malibu driveway collapses, creating a massive sinkhole outside his home
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High school football coach dies after being struck by lightning, just weeks on from retirement
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Virginia horse is safe after crews spend hours pulling it from muddy ravine
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Influencer Olivia Oras, 27, dies after alleged cosmetic procedure gone wrong
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