Trenton, NJ – The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will hold an Interfaith Remembrance Service at St. Peter’s Church in Lower Manhattan at 2 pm on Monday, September 11 2006. to honor the 84 Port Authority employees who were tragically killed on September 11, 2001 in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The service will be broadcast live by NJN Public Television, with a rebroadcast that evening at 10 pm. NJN News Reporter Marie DeNoia will host the broadcast.

New York Governor George E. Pataki, New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will attend and offer words of comfort. Port Authority Commissioner Christy Ferer Levin, whose husband, former Port Authority Executive Director Neil D. Levin, was killed on 9/11, will read a poem she created entitled “War and Love: Lift Your Hearts.”

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra String Quartet will perform at the ceremony, and later in the evening for PATH commuters outside the entrance to the World Trade Center Station, located on Church Street, from 5 to 7 pm. The Port Authority Police Pipes and Drums and Honor Guard also will be part of the ceremony and Port Authority Police Officer Raymond Corbo will sing the National Anthem.

NJN will uplink a clean feed of the service for broadcast media on satellite coordinates SBS 6 transponder 2 (KU band analog), downlink frequency 11749.5 vertical, beginning at 1:30 pm.