Renewed Search for 9/11 Remains to Start April 5th

Budget gap or no budget gap, the city is committed to its continued search for 9/11 remains. A previous Brooklyn sifting that ended in December 2007 left victims’ family unsatisfied and wanting more so it’s shipped truckloads of debris from the World Trade Center site to Fresh Kills in Queens, where anthropologists and other experts will pick through it. The Post reports there is 844 cubic yards of the stuff is ready for sorting, starting April 5th; the effort is expected to cost $1.4 million and be completed in three months, according to the Medical Examiner's Office, that's overseeing it.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on March 27, 2010 10:55 AM

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BreatheRhetoric

Fresh Kills in Queens?

Dirk

Wow, the city could really use that million dollars.

The 9/11 families have really tried everyone's patience.

Trilby16

Anyone know how to sign up for this sifting through? I need a job.

Clarice City

I've said it before but, even our troops are not getting this kind of treatment. The parents of the 19 year olds being blown to pieces in the name of these self-obsessed families are not asking the army to sift through every grain of dessert sand to reclaim every particle of their sons and daughters.

Pity party is over, folks. Donate some of your sympathy to the troops and their families.

Snoopy

I can see this group as the new millennium version of the holocaust survivors.

GIVE IT UP ALREADY!

Spirit of 76

They're dead. Get over it. Some people actually pay good money to have their remains scattered.

jules1000

let it go!

use that money for something useful!

Peter

It's particularly ridiculous considering that any remains that are found are probably just going to be small bits of bone. Nothing remotely recognizable.