Mayor Bloomberg Stands Behind Decision On 9/11 Remains

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - Sept. 11 memorial chairman and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is defending the plan to place more than 9,000 unidentified human remains in a museum repository seven stories below ground.

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"This is as respectful a ways to remember those people whose remains we haven't been able to identify. I can't think of a more sobering ways to do it," said Bloomberg.

The repository will only be open to family members.

"I can't think of a better place where you have to put the remains. They will be behind a wall with a quote from Virgil, as I remember," said Bloomberg. "People will stand there and they will think and that's what you want them to do."

Some families want those remains to be put at the plaza level.

"I'm sorry that some people aren't happy, but you still have to make decisions and the vast of the bulk of the families that we've worked with over the years think that this is a very appropriate ways to memorialize," said Bloomberg.

The families might consider legal action in the future but have no current plans to sue, attorney Normal Siegel said.