Map: Where 9/11 Victims' Remains Were Found

The Post published this map showing where human remains of victims from the September 11, 2001 attacks were found by firefighters. The paper says, "Here's the chilling proof that Ground Zero stretches well beyond the boundaries of the World Trade Center site, and reaches close to the proposed mosque and community center." Yes, the Park 51 community center and mosque, two blocks away from the WTC site, is in the zone.

The Post's take on a map that firefighters apparently put together that showed where human remains from the 9/11 attacks were found

The Post explains, "The map was obtained by The Post from sources after the Fire Department did not respond to requests to review it. It shows that remains were found just 348 feet to the south of the mosque site at 45 Park Place, on top of the massive post-office building that stretches along Barclay Street, from Church Street to West Broadway.... Remains also were found atop CUNY's Fiterman Hall, bounded by Park Place and Barclay Street on the eastern side of West Broadway, just 360 feet away from the mosque site." (Fiterman Hall was razed last year.) You know what else is near the WTC? Stuff like this.

Park 51's developers claim that if they move the mosque, it means the radicals have won.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 10, 2010 4:59 PM

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potsmoker

we should just burn the constitution and get it over with, that was the whole point of 911.

m015094

It's 9 years later. Move on. Get over it.

JacqueMehoff

they're here, I can't sleep because of the packs of harley riders just arriving. thanks guys with no mufflers. it may get crazy tomorrow.

ddhboy

Isn't their current argument is that they can build the center there because body parts were found in the building, thus making it sacred land or some shit like that? Meanwhile not a single dot within a block's radius from the site, so what gives?

J&R is a block away from the world trade center, so should I not shop there anymore because its too close? What about the shit load of body parts in the location of the Conway Store? Everyone knows that when the Freedom Tower ever opens there's going to be shopping at the base. Is The Gap or whatever moves in disrespecting the victims of 9/11?

dept54321

Jesus Christ, are we ever going to stop talking about this?

Potty Boy

If that's not incendiary, I don't know what is.

I'll keep reading the Post, and taking it for what it is, cheap and light entertainment.

Leave the heavy lifting to the big boys, NYP.

PTG in nyc

Perhaps every murder victims' chalk outlines should also be declared memorials.

The patriotic terrorists are trying to stop a city from moving on. We should maybe just evacuate Manhattan to placate them.

ides_of_march

Don't forget the incinerated human remains that wafted away with the smoke clouds. There were no doubt cremated human ashes a lot further afield than this map that wound up in a/c filters, on windows, in people's nostrils, everywhere the smoke went basically.

harrisgraber

I'm not surprised that Rupert Murdoch's crap rag published this in an attempt to drum up more opposition to the Islamic Center and sell more papers.

Muslims died in the Twin Towers, jackass! There was a prayer center there. To hell with Rupert Murdoch and all the fools who swallow his line of crap without question. You've made this country a much worse place to be, a place without tolerance, a country of hate.

John L

+1

I wish more people would realize how dangerous Rupert Murdoch is and the Koch Brothers who are financing the whole movement.

I wish every American would just read this:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

Regardless of what side you are on.

JacqueMehoff

If I knew then what I know now, I would have walked those couple of blocks South on that day. who knew?

Jamie McDonald

This is the second time you've posted this. What does that mean?

JacqueMehoff

it means since Spring 2002 my life has been hell. and it won't get any better. I'm just here in this world biding my time till I eat a bullet.

it means what it means, if I was gone on that day, at least someone will get something. (hopefully they won't go all 9/11 protesting and just let me go quietly, I'm sure they would because I have an ugly mug)

dadoc

As loads of stuff was carted to the Great Kills Landfill, that is also hallowed. As is the highway path to it, including the Battery Tunnel, the BQE, the Verrazano Bridge, Hylan Boulevard, and the Staten Island Expressway. As are the boots of anyone who worked there or walked there in the days to follow. I treated some folks (minor injuries) covered in dust in the hours that followed, and still have those sneakers. Not as a shrine, just lazy. As they may contain the DNA of victims. Therefore, my old sneakers are hallowed.

Some folks, including The Post, shyte-stirrers as they need to be for circulation, need to just give it up. Heck, the next sip of PBR you take may just contain a H2O molecule that was part of the serum that was part of the blood that dripped from the spear wound of the alleged cross-bound Savior of the Quran-burning Pastor. This stuff is just getting ridiculous. Move on.

dadoc

But you never know what today holds, much less tomorrow,. The bad, the good, the meh, the unbelievably good. The Bullet negates all possibilities, bad and good. And all ability to good for others. Feel free to expound :) .....

mocanlagunas

This would be more offensive to me if I had lost someone that day...

Rocknrope

Why don't they show the approximate range of human remains to New York Dolls?

jt10000

The spread of remains is really disturbing and a strong reminder of the horror those killers inflicted on the people downtown.

That said, WTF does this have to do with a bunch of people wanting a community center in an old Burlington Coat Factory is beyond me. I guess horrible things bring out the worse in people like the editors of the Post.