When the renovated World Trade Center plaza, right, reopened last month with a new granite surface, some New Yorkers wondered what had happened to the 40,000 marble pavers that once graced the plaza. Do tons of marble just vanish? Well, yes and no. Some of the marble had been replaced with concrete over the years, so last summer, contractors removed only 24,000 marble pavers. And then? Oh, ignominy! The marble was sent to a recycling station in Brooklyn, crushed and turned into fill for New Yor...
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/08/garden/currents-renovations-what-happened-when-the-world-trade-center-lost-its-marbles.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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