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Starting Tuesday, the city medical examiner's office will search for possible human remains in a Lower Manhattan alleyway where a piece of wreckage believed to be from one of the planes hijacked on September 11th was discovered.Police believe the five-feet tall, four-feet long object is a piece of landing gear, and it was found behind 51 Park Place on Wednesday morning by surveyors inspecting the site.
http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11f...a/2013/4/27/images/ENLARGE_01911planepart.jpgThe landing gear found behind 51 Park Place
Officials say the object has a clearly visible Boeing identification number.Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said it is not clear how the 17-inch-wide object got into the 18-inch-wide alley. He said a piece of rope appeared to be wrapped around it, meaning it is possible it could have been lowered there.
There are also no marks on the walls beside the alleyway.
The site, 51 Park Place, is the location of an Islamic community center that attracted significant controversy in 2011, when developers announced plans to build a new structure.
A spokesperson says the Park51 center is working with authorities to remove the part carefully, effectively and quickly.
The owner of a barbershop across from the site, Ray Tahlov, had to relocate his business after September 11th and said the discovery of the gear brings up a lot of memories for him, all these years later.
"I don't know what happened. I don't know how this thing happens after 11-and-a-half years," Tahlov said.
The plane wreckage is expected to be removed on Monday.
