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Fresh Kills

Detectives of the FBI wait for their shift to begin, sifting through the debris of the World Trade Center, at Fresh Kills Landfill.

Detectives of the FBI wait for their shift to begin, sifting through the debris of the World Trade Center, at Fresh Kills Landfill.

Payhauler carries a load of garbage to be dumped at Fresh Kills Landfill. From the inside of a payhauler approaching the dump site at Fresh Kills. Steam rises from newly dumped garbage as a compactor levels out the refuse during dumping operations at Fresh Kills Landfill. NYC Sanitation workers scrub clean garbage barges as part of the closing of Fresh Kills Landfill. Department of Sanitation mechanic in one of the many repair shops at the Fresh Kills site. Empty garbage barges sit in the Great Fresh Kill Creek and the Isle of the Meadows at Fresh Kills. Phil Roselli of the NYC dept. of Sanitation takes in a sunset at the beginning of his night shift at Fresh Kills Landfill. The symbolic "Last Barge" of garbage in New York Harbor on its way to Fresh Kills for the offical closing in June of 2001. In three months, on Sept. 11th, Fresh Kills was reopened, as the repository and investigation site for the World Trade Center collapse. Detectives of the FBI wait for their shift to begin, sifting through the debris of the World Trade Center, at Fresh Kills Landfill. Detectives and other law enforcement officals comb through the debris of the World Trade Center at Fresh Kills Landfill. Law enforcement officals collects personal effects of the victims during sifting operations at Fresh Kills Landfill. Guns recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center collapse look like artifacts from another time. FBI and Port Authority detectives were tasked at inspecting thousands of vehicles destroyed in the collapse of the World Trade Center. The remains of New York City Fire Department trucks at Fresh Kills Landfill. Winter of 2002, law enforcement officals walk toward the Sifting Enclosures during WTC debris sifting operations at Fresh Kills Landfill. Law enforcement officals inspect debris from the World Trade Center collapse. Law enforcement officals inspect debris of the World Trade Center, running along conveyors, in plastic enclosures erected for the operation at Fresh Kills in the winter of 2002. World Trade Center debris sifting went on for 24 hours a day at Fresh Kills Landfill. Remains of a Rodin statue pulled from the debris of the World Trade Center at Fresh Kills Landfill. American flag recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center at Fresh Kills. Law enforcement officials walk amongst the debris of the World Trade Center with New York City's "new skyline" in the background. The last piece of World Trade Center steel at Fresh Kills is requisitioned by the United States Navy for the hull of a new warship. Fresh Kills in winter.