A piece of twisted steel recovered from the site of the World Trade Center disaster was picked up from John F. Kennedy Airport Wednesday and delivered via an official escort of Auxiliary Police and Fire Department vehicles to West Hempstead. It will be used in a future memorial to the 12 West Hempstead residents and others who lost their lives in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

After touring the Lakeview and West Hempstead communities, the steel finally came to its new temporary home at Chestnut Street School, where it will wait while the memorial it's to be a part of is constructed.