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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In a U.S. Court of Appeals hearing, families of victims killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center argued that 1.6 million tons of debris at Staten Island landfill be removed, sifted and then prepared for proper burial because it may contain victims' remains. In the other corner is the city, which argued, "These ashes are undifferentiated dirt." more ›

A federal judge ruled in favor for the city, saying the city is not "required to re-sift through debris" from the World Trade Center in hopes of finding more human remains. more ›