NEW YORK, NY September 05, 2006 —September 11th is next week, but Fifth Anniversary commemorations are already getting underway. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

A three-day conference begins today at Pace University, two blocks from the World Trade Center Site. Political observers David Gergen, William Kristol and Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak, and there will be sessions on disaster preparedness, health complications, economic impact and others. Hofstra University also has a conference today.

The Brooklyn Museum has an exhibit that started last week and will run through most of the fall of historic and recent images of Lower Manhattan, before and after September 11th. The Museum of the City of New York will display a collection of posters of the missing and statements of support from New Yorkers and people around the world that was posted outside Bellevue Hospital. An exhibit opens tomorrow at The Skyscraper Museum on “The Twin Towers and the Twentieth Century.”

Concerts, vigils and other events continue throughout the week culminating on next Monday, September 11th.