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Battered bronze sphere returning to World Trade Center site

By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press
Published: July 21, 2016, 9:52pm
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Pedestrians pass Fritz Koenig's "The Sphere" Thursday in Battery Park in New York.  At top, the outdoor sculpture, which once stood in between the two towers, lies in the wreckage of the World Trade Center on Sept. 24, 2001.
Pedestrians pass Fritz Koenig's "The Sphere" Thursday in Battery Park in New York. At top, the outdoor sculpture, which once stood in between the two towers, lies in the wreckage of the World Trade Center on Sept. 24, 2001. (Associated Press files) Photo Gallery

NEW YORK — A 25-ton, bronze sphere ripped open by the collapsing World Trade Center is returning to a spot overlooking the rebuilt site.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday approved plans to move the Koenig Sphere from its temporary place in Battery Park at Manhattan’s southern tip.

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