The Freedom Tower

A five-judge panel of the New York state Supreme Court unanimously agreed with a lower court judge who had refused to set aside a jury verdict that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was negligent and more than 50 percent liable in the 1993 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, according to press reports.

“The PA is the agency that owned the World Trade Center when terrorist bombed an underground parking garage that killed six people.
The State Supreme Court is an appeals court and it ruled against the PA in a decision made on Tuesday.

In an earlier decision, a Manhattan jury found in 2005 that the agency had not properly protected its underground public parking garage, where terrorists blew up a rental van loaded with explosives on Feb. 26, 1993.

The blast killed six people and injured almost 1,000 others. It also blew out a crater about six stories deep that covered an area the size of a football field under the building complex, the appellate judges said.

The appeals court noted the Port Authority did not argue that the bombing was unforeseeable, since the bombing method was not only foreseen but was brought to executives’ attention by the agency’s own internal study group.”