New York Post article on WTC remains, Oct 2006

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document 4 2 whole buildings never searched at site’s edge THE EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH for human remains at Ground Zero somehow missed several key areas — an oversight that may have kept scores of 9/11 famn- lies from having a true burial of their loved ones’ re- mains, ‘two muitistury office buitd- Wigs neat tp Gresad Zere und Many Underground chambers around (he site newer underwent a thurough search, a Daily News imveatigation has found The rent find of y “mother locke” of hanes beneath a service ravd next io Weat St. gives hope © families who never recovered any reraains, fat abso calis into qprestion just how thorough the Poros superar, senech for human remains er Ground COSC WEEKS. The vearch began the day after tha Sept. 11, 2001, terror at- tacks on the World Trade C enter and continued thi wahd-Oc tober 2002. Multiple a; nctes weno sovetved, gittvough the Fire Departantnd hanced most of the fox After the first week, the PONY bean using GPS devices io record where remaine were found, enabling if fa track where had been | @SPECIAL | | ree { i BARS AWE STARE MOREE fund Thursday yielded poth- ing during the intial searches. detween Con Edisan and Ven- aon, Taere are 20 such manholes under the sernee road neoct t6 West Sr, accerding to the Burt Authority. The area where these manhotes are located was ed and backfilled in early 2002 and was paved over begin- ning March # of that year, city of- ficials said At the same nme, FDNY recerds show rescue workers searching right aroumd the arpa of the service road and finding a handful of mostly civilian re- TRAINS However, Con Ed spokwaman Mike Clendenin said there's no indimation the utility was ever asked to searched and wi search the vaults un- needed to AN EDITORIAL demneath the man. wana cbest A ed holes Verran affi- of the task was over: We imust feave no cialis suid they were sw Berane There stese uoturned looking inte whether were 2749 dend, PAGE 40 their manhole vaults ated OEE ERAN wren sow menaomanne WEE BONO. DAW haman ce Meanwhile, two mains were ultimately recov: other buildings — fiterman Hall ered. ‘Yo date 1,180 of those an the narth side of The Pit and killed have not been identified. And i's now apparent that re- mains were somehow missed. Thix first became clear with the former Dewtache Bank at 136 faberty St, a 40-story sky- ee * nipped open by the col- orig smtails rower that was de cared searched and clean ic eDNY apokesman James Laxng sais for 10 Gays thet June, twe search fears went f 233 180 Liberty from the roof to the . “We iste’? dismantie; we didn't aft through. We didn’t look in air ducts, that kind of thang,“ he seid. "Nothing was dis- covered. We never went back in there.” More than three years later, in September last , COMSTMUE: tion crews found bones on the root A thorough search then dis- covered more than 700 bane fragments on the root. A state official recently pre- sicted no more human remains would ba found thers, but a source familiar with its ongoing deconstruciinn says two spots ~— the fifthfloor mechanical rears and the lobby —~ are ex: pected to yield more. The FDNY data tracking where human remains were found shows thet the under- sreund spet by West Si. — a maniole where semaine were 136 Cedar St. on the south siste have never heen thoroughly searched for human remains, records show, Both received a visual inspec trom from the Fire siment, but remain off-limits five years later because they stil contain toxic dust from the collapse of the towers. Both buildings are bi- warte testament to the disasters, frozen in time, their facades ripped by the collapsing towers, their interiors clogged with Trade Canter dust Fiterman, which is owned by the siete Dormitary paanereai has been off-limits because of fight over how much imitaticn firms woukl pay for the cleanup.” ‘We have no knowledge of anyone ever searching the intert- or of Fiterman Hail for human remains.” said Claudia Hutton, spokeswoman for the Dormito- ty Authority. She said & search involving the city medical examiner is ex- to begin in the apring be- fore the state begins taking the huiiding down Then there's [30 Cedar St, The collepaing south tower opped a huge hole in the top of the building, ee roof and interior with debris. The buifding was given a visual Fire Department search by: shortly aher the bindery then re- Protective netting sheativ. bul ting n at 430 Cedar St,, whiclr aleng with Fiterman Hall (above) on the north side of The Pit have yet to b remains. of v WHA WOR AA viaated bel a teas supervised by as the city ix concerned, the aby never oconTTed. the Federal pean, ment On its Atbe side, an Brcged eee Be or. ange an “X" with the word “plane” because parts of a plane were found made. The eene sigh remains An official familar with the search of 1306 Cedar St. said the building was clogged with de- bris during the Sept. 16, 2001, search But when the city and federal regulators entered the building m August. much of the debris was gone, leaving only the toric thust The city bas no record that the debris was searched, and no record of where a went Be. cause it fikely contained asbes- tas, the owners applied for s per- mit to do sbatement. but sx far A shroud covers the building from top to botiam. The owner, Cedar & Washington Assoe., LLC, recently met with the (LS. Environmental Protection Agen vy to draft a plan te demotish part of the building Christopher Coilbourne, « spokesman for the owner did not respond to questions about what happened to the debris. There are indications that de- bris was sise remeved fram other buildings near Ground Zero without being searched for human remains A source familar with the cleanup af 119 Cedar St. said the Fire Department did s visual search looking for “large pieces” of burman temains, but debris thoroughly searched for ams of the Sept: 11 attacks, was dumped by the private cun- tractor supervised by the city be- fore it could be thoroughly searched. “They noked for anv- thing bigger thasy a bread box.” said the source. “Everything, elsy was considered contami- art.” At $0 Wawr St, a building heavily damaged by the plane that bhosted f ough the north tower and then by the collapsing south tower, PONY data show several body parts were tound on the roof and in the parapets, but a source familiar with the s- terior renovation said debris in- sade was never searched system- atically. “Where did all that debris oo" the source asked. “Wher is all those potential pieces ge" gomith@nydaityaens coe NYC-WTC_000143430