BY ANDREW STRICKLER
andrew.strickler@newsday.com
Newsday.com

The remains of another victim of the World Trade Center attack have been identified, according to the New York City medical examiner’s office.

The remains were recovered in the last year from the main service road, which carries trucks to and from the pit, according to medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.

The name of the victim was withheld pending permission from the family.

It was the second identification since the medical examiner announced in July the name of Edward Ryan, 42, of Scarsdale, whose remains were found in a Con Edison manhole in the same area in October of last year.

The discovery of those bone pieces in the partially destroyed manhole prompted city officials to expand the search for fragments, many of which were thrown outside the 16-acre WTC site.

The effort to catalogue and identify thousands of human fragments found on or near the World Trade Center site is one of the largest DNA projects in history.

Of the 21,751 remains so far recovered, 10,717 are still unidentified, according the medical examiner’s office. Many are being preserved because they are too small or damaged to yield usable DNA.

The identification process involves comparing DNA found in bone fragments and other remains with a database of DNA profiles created from the personal effects of victims.