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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