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The Sept. 11 memorial will list the names of the dead according to the World Trade Center tower they died in or the plane they were on, a change from the "random" listing envisioned two years ago by the memorial's designer, officials said yesterday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the new proposal, which was supported by the memorial architect but outraged Sept. 11 family members who wanted to list their loved ones' ages, the floor they worked on at the trade center and the ranks of fire and police officials who rushed into the buildings.
Michael Arad, the designer of the "Reflecting Absence" memorial who originally proposed listing the names of the nearly 3,000 victims in random order to reflect the chaos of Sept. 11, said the new proposal "preserves the equality of all victims while honoring the selfless sacrifice of the first responders."
Edie Lutnick is one who said the new arrangement is unacceptable and shouldn't be decided by the mayor.
"It should be the decision of the families ... how the names of their loved ones are listed in their final resting place," said Lutnick, whose brother, Gary, was one of 658 people killed from the Cantor Fitzgerald firm.
The new arrangement includes 10 groupings of names of the 2,979 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the 1993 trade center bombing. The names of civilians who died in the north tower and aboard the hijacked jetliner that crashed into it will be listed on a parapet surrounding a reflecting pool marking the north tower's footprint.
The names of all the rescue workers killed in both towers, on the flights that crashed into the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., and in the 1993 bombing will be listed around the south tower's footprint.
The names will still be listed randomly within their categories, although foundation president Joseph Daniels said families could request that family members who died together on a plane or in a building be listed together.
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