NEW YORK (AP) – Inside an aircraft hangar at Kennedy Airport, stacks of shirts sit neatly folded on a shelf, price tags still attached. But they are caked in dust and will never be sold. Mannequins, dressed in Victoria’s Secret tops, stand as if beckoning to shoppers long gone.
Nearby are mammoth hunks of rusty metal and wiring – parts of a global broadcast antenna that once crowned the World Trade Center.
These are some of the last remnants of a host of artifacts recovered after the Sept. 11 attacks that have been held in storage at the airport for 14 years by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the 16-acre trade center site.
The agency is now giving away about 200 items still stored in the 80,000-square-foot hangar. It once held more than 2,000 artifacts from the ruins, which have been distributed over the years to organizations in the United States and abroad.
On Tuesday, the damaged carriage of a PATH train that once carried commuters from New Jersey to the trade center site was lifted onto a flatbed truck by two big cranes. It was headed to the Trolley Museum of New York in Kingston, about 90 miles up the Hudson from New York City, where it will be the centerpiece of a future Sept. 11 wing.