A massive Twin Towers memorial service – to be staged in all five boroughs and Yankee Stadium this Sunday – will be discussed by city officials today.
Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington will meet with a newly formed committee to hammer out the details, mayoral spokeswoman Lynn Rasic said.
The tentative plan is to select one large site in each borough for individual memorial services.
The five services would be connected by the same starting time: 3 p.m.
The memorial will honor the hundreds of firefighters, cops and other rescue workers killed in the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Yesterday, there was word that one Sunday memorial was being organized to bring more than 1 million people to Central Park.
But those plans were scratched in favor of the five-tier memorial.
City officials said Central Park had posed too many security risks because of its size and openness.
The memorial planning committee includes former Mayors David Dinkins and Edward Koch and leading Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Catholic clergy members.
The Bronx site of Yankee Stadium will be the centerpiece of the memorial.
The House That Ruth Built, opened in 1923, can hold 57,545 people, more if folding chairs are also placed on the playing field.
Sources told The Post that several Yankee players are expected to attend the service, along with city officials and politicians from New Jersey and Connecticut.
The sites for the other boroughs – Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island – have not yet been chosen.
Koch said while the memorial will be a solemn affair, it will also have “plenty of spirit.”
It is expected that Mayor Giuliani, Edward Cardinal Egan and other political and spiritual heads will speak.
The memorial will be televised on all four broadcast networks – Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC – as well as on the major cable news networks.
For the past week, hundreds of makeshift memorial sites have cropped up.
One of the largest has been at Union Square Park, where thousands have congregated around the clock to pay their respects to the fallen. A large gold-and-silver metal flag sculpture has been the centerpiece there.